The Dangers of Magical Thinking: Situating Right to Try Laws, Patient Rights, and The Language of Advocacy

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 37-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa DeTora
Keyword(s):  
Patient Rights ◽  
Magical Thinking ◽  
Right To Try Laws

MAGICAL THINKING AND ALCOHOL LABELS

1991 ◽  
Vol 69 (7) ◽  
pp. 767 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN M. SPRINGER
Keyword(s):  
Magical Thinking

Stardust

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lloyd Whitesell
Keyword(s):  
Film Music ◽  
Religious Practices ◽  
Magical Thinking ◽  
Iconic Representation ◽  
Fundamental Goal

This chapter considers the deep-rooted association of glamour with magic powers. Glamour’s bestowal of mystique on objects, people, and emotions depends on a more fundamental goal of inspiring magical thinking, an aspect of glamour that seeks to preserve the experience of enchantment in a disenchanted world. The Hollywood phenomena of star worship and iconic representation are discussed as secular religious practices that have developed in response to the changing conditions of modernity. The chapter shows how three conventional symbols of divinity—haloes, crowns, and veils—contribute to the idolization of a star and find expression in film music according to its own sonic vocabulary.

The anti-science in the culture of group analysis (2)

2021 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-109
Author(s):  
Henry Luiker
Keyword(s):  
Group Analysis ◽  
Sharp Contrast ◽  
Magical Thinking ◽  
Large Group

This is the second of two articles examining the pervasiveness of religious, primitive and magical thinking in the culture of group analysis. It commences with a brief outline of the standpoint from which I view supernatural ideas and the groups they animate. It then looks at the role Patrick de Maré’s writings appears to play in the culture of group analysis. It concludes with the sharp contrast between natural and supernatural approaches to understanding large group phenomena.

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