Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Paradigms of explanation 3. Consciousness and illusions: critical perspectives 4. Self-perception and social cognition 5. New accounts: ethogenics and hermeneutics 6. Self-presentation and discourse analysis 7. Illusions, control and helplessness 8. Phenomenological, cognitive and linguistic therapies 9. Discounting and dialectics: contradictions in explanations 10. Conclusions References Index of names Index of subjects.
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