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  This impressive and wide-ranging book is a major accomplishment, and highly relevant for diverse readers . . . Whatever your pathway to the social world of telepathy, you will be richly and knowledgeably rewarded.

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  Doug Maynard, University of Wisconsin-Madison, author of of Bad News, Good News and co-author of Autistic Intelligence

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  Robin Wooffit has almost single-handedly brought sociology and PSI together and he shows how PSI might manifest in conversations. You will not think of your linguistic faux pas the same way after reading this illuminating book.

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  Etzel Cardeña, Thorsen Professor of Psychology, Lund University and editor of Parapsychology: A Handbook for the 21st Century

Introduction
1. Telepathy in History
2. Telepathy and Unusual Speech Events
3. Telepathy in the Therapy Room
4. Telepathic Experience and Patterns in Actions
5. Telepathy In and Out of the Laboratory
6. How (Not) to Think of Being Psychic
7. Telepathy, Talk and Interpersonal Relationships
8. Telepathy: Synthetic, Good Old Fashioned and Interpersonal
9. Enigmatic Interaction and the Anomaly That is Not Anomalous
References
Select Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Photo Acknowledgements
Index

Robin Wooffitt is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of York and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Psychology and Sociological Sciences, University of Northampton. He is the author of The Language of Mediums and Psychics (2006) and co-author of Making Sense of the Paranormal (2021).