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Article: Bookmarks, Blinded by Science
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- Psychotherapy Networker
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- January 1, 2008
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Bookmarks By Richard HandlerÂ
Blinded by Science Are there ways of knowing that we refuse to acknowledge?
Extraordinary Knowing: Science, Skepticism, and the Inexplicable Powers of the Human Mind Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer Bantam Books. 302 pp. ISBN:0-553-80335-2
This book begins with a story about an experience that changed the author's life. After a Christmas concert in Oakland, in December 1991, a thief stole a rare and valuable hand-carved harp owned by Meg Mayer, Elizabeth Mayer's 14-year-old daughter. Meg was inconsolable: she couldn't play on any of the ordinary harps rented to replace it. Her mother, a professor at University of California at Berkeley and a psychoanalyst and respected ...
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