Magical thinking in psychological training and profession

By Fabrizio López De Pomar

What lies beyond the horizon of science? Human curiosity ventures to explore everything. Eventually, it encounters a warning: "You have reached the limits of current scientific knowledge". We can agree that the hedge around what science has discovered and agreed upon is a wonderful patch. And very fertile. But it is not all. For before our eyes lies a vast uncharted sea of questions to be answered. So how can we venture into uncertainty? Universities respond with scientific training. The products of scientific thought speak for themselves. However, a different and older way of thinking is still present even among scientists in training and professionals: magical thinking, characterised by explaining phenomena external and internal to the person by appealing to supernatural mechanisms and agents. Is this coexistence of thinking in science students and professionals inadequate, as several authors point out, and what effects can it have when it comes to the study of the human mind? The book is the product of research that explored and discussed the above with university psychology professors.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 6206636984
• ISBN13: 9786206636984
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Our Knowledge Publishing
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"