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Tricks of the Mind
Publication year:
2007
Original publication year:
2006
ISBN:
978-1-905-02635-7
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Table of Contents:
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Preface to the Parperback Edition
Preface
Part One: Disillusionment
Part Two: Magic
A Coin Trick
A Card Trick
Perception is Everything
Tricks with Suggestion
The Pendulum
Muscle-reading
Part Three: Memory
Starting Points
The Linking System
Uses of the Linking System
The Peg System
Remembering Long Numbers
Memorizing a Deck of Cards
Memorizing Football Scores
Remembering Names
The Importance of Reviewing
Part Four: Hypnosis and Suggestibility
A Brief History
What is Hypnosis?
Seemlingly Unique Hypnotic Phenomena
Painless Surgery
Hallucinations
How to Hypnotize
The Dangers
Language
Structure
Prepare Your Subject
Trying a Post-hypnotic Suggestion
Neuro-Linguistic Programming
The Eyes Have It (some of the time)
Tools for Personal Change
Targeted Rapport
Playing with Pictures
Phobia Cure
Self-confidence and the Image We Project
Confusion and Self-defence
Part Five: Unconscious Communication
Learning to Read People
Spotting Lies and Giveaway Tells
Establishing a Baseline
Key Areas of Unconscious Communication
Test Your Acuity
Signs of Truthfulness
Part Six: Anti-Science, Pseudo-Science and Bad Thinking
Thinking Traps
Science and Relativism
Belief in the Supernatural and Pseudo-Science
Confirmation Bias: Looking for What We Know
Extraordinary Coincidences and Psychic Phone Calls
Anecdotes and Fact
Superstitious Thinking
Alternative Medicine
The Placebo Effect
The Appeal of the Imaginary
Mediums, Psychics and Charlatans
Cold-reading
More Examples of Cold-reading Trickery
'Honest' Psychics
Final Thoughts
Correspondence
Acknowledgements
Suggested Further Reading and Quoted Papers
Picture Acknowledgements
Index
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