Preface | p. ix |
What to Do About Absurdity? | p. 1 |
How Difficult is It to Be Human? | p. 11 |
What is Death Anxiety And How Pervasive is It? | p. 20 |
The Problems of Uncertainty And Insignificance | p. 49 |
Testing the Buffering Power Of Religious Imagery | p. 67 |
Learning How to Pretend And Make Things Up | p. 89 |
Classical Defense Mechanisms | p. 106 |
How Do Make-Believe And Psychopathology Intersect? | p. 128 |
Conjuring Up a Self | p. 150 |
Somatic Consequences Of Illusions | p. 163 |
Larger Perspectives | p. 171 |
References | p. 197 |
Author Index | p. 223 |
Subject Index | p. 235 |
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