When Do We Need Magical Thinking?

When do we need magical thinking, asks sceptical inquirer author. She describes a woman who believed her husband would come back after he died in a car dent. And she still looked down every day to see if he was walking towards the library. It's not the kind of thing where any therapist would say, you know, snap out of it. The book is called 'The Year of Magical Thinking' by joan didion.