Following up on our show on Home, and that “all sickness is homesickness” we discuss the phenomena of magical thinking as a way to create safety when what one really wants is a sense of home.

Magical thinking is an error in causation, attributing a cause and effect relationship when there isn’t one. We all engage in magical thinking, buying a lottery ticket is testimony to that, it only becomes a “pathological” problem when it creates significant consequences/distress i.e., betting your house in a poker game. Join hosts Kevin O’Donoghue and Niseema Dyan Diemer as they talk about magical thinking in both its pathological and innocuous versions: and as it relates to significant conditions like adolescent cutting and Borderline Personality Disorder.