| Description |
296 p. : ill., ports. ; 26 cm. |
| Note |
"'Compulsive Playacting' deals with the cultural and pseudoscientific manifestations of the universal human tendency to love to pretend to be someone else... to play a different part on life's theater stage. 'Hypnotism' is a topic the author really understands inside and out, due to his years of travelling with stage hypnotists in Canada and Australia. 'Recovered Memories' explores the cultural consequences, some quite dreadful, of 'therapist-guided' playacting. 'Mediocrer than Thou' seems inspired mainly by the author's experiences within higher education, particularly within colleges of education. 'My Alien Can Lick Your Alien' deals very briefly and superficially with the familiar myths of UFOs and flying saucers. 'Psychics and Other Time Travellers' deals equally briefly and casually with fortune tellers, psychics and prophets-for-hire. 'Come In, Sucker' is a catch-all chapter covering a wide range of other pseudoscience, from Scientology to Velikovski and the Bermuda Triangle, with each particular pseudoscience summarized and dismissed in typically a single paragraph or so."--Amazon.com. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Hypnotism.
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Recovered memory.
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Unidentified flying objects
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Occultism.
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Parapsychology.
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| ISBN |
9781419646843 |
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1419646842 |
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