Magical Thinking

By Renée Grinnell

A nonscientific sense of connection or causality between independent events.

Example: The patient reports numerous instances of her thoughts having caused natural disasters in distant cities.


    Last reviewed: By John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on 23 Oct 2008

 

 
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