The Definition of Magical Thinking: Basic Aspects and Possible Clinical Implications
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One possible definition of what is magical thinking will be attempted with an emphasis on non-causality, on Jungian synchronicity theory, on the presentation of unpublished experimentation with one oracle, plus the Freudian implications on the matter, and how all this can have a bearing on the understanding of the concept of magical thinking itself and, indirectly, on possible new modes of psychotherapy already based on the few reports that have been published to this end so far.
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