By Ellen Langer — 2001
Defends the failure of people to predict the future. Confusion between prediction and hindsight; how psychologists predict an outcome.
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The diagnosis and the treatment fit the era in which they occurred. It was the early 1950's, and the field of psychosomatic medicine — based on the notion that many diseases have their origins in emotional distress — was in its heyday.