"I was 11 years old, and at that point, my parents had known for several years that something was not right with me." ...

The phrase “magical thinking” has a bad reputation. It is associated with superstition, schizophrenia, hallucination, and other escapes from reality. If you seek a definition that is free of ...

‘You start this magical thinking of, “if I don’t do X, then Y will happen,” or “if I don’t run around the block five times, I’m going to fall out of love with her”,’ Tyler explains.

Washington often indulges in magical thinking, as politicians conjure new budgetary gimmicks or announce ambitious goals without concrete plans to achieve them. The Trump administration’s latest ...

On a visit to Capitol Hill, the president tells House Republicans "don't f--- with Medicaid" in the budget bill. But, as it stands the Congressional Budget Office estimates the legislation could ...

Magical thinking leads children to connect thoughts and behaviors with real-life outcomes. They believe that if they do or say something, then it has an impact on events in the world. For example, ...

Dousing the Met Museum’s “ Magical Stela (Cippus of Horus) ” (360–343 BCE) and drinking the water that passed over it, for instance, supposedly cured venomous snake bites. (It didn’t.) ...

“ [Magical thinking OCD] latches onto ordinary everyday kinds of things and says, ‘This can have a big, devastating impact,’” she says. “It’s not just where the laundry jugs go or which plate you use ...

Practicing Artful Thinking Is a Process We’re all prone to falling into magical thinking sometimes, myself included. Practicing artful thinking is a process — but a worthwhile one.