Originally a mentalist was an adherent or advocate of a mentalistic school of psychology or psychiatry. Someone who believes that some mental phenomena cannot be explained by physical laws as an example telepathy and mind reading. While a psychic may claim to observe an underlying spiritual reality and report on it, in a process known as a "psychic reading," a mentalist, by contrast, might claim the ability to manipulate that reality in order to create a different manifestation. The term "mentalist" also refers to "psychic" entertainers whose illusions feature the apparent ability to read minds, foretell the future, and see distant and hidden objects. This branch of magic is referred to as "mentalism". "Mentalist" has more recently become a tongue-in-cheek insult for when someone is behaving oddly or wackily, thanks to tv series "Alan Partridge" and "The Office". "Lee Hicks is a mentalist." "Darren Brown is an amazing mentalist."Two important examples of mentalism in traditional psychology are dispositional attributions is an individual behavior as a result caused by internal characteristics that reside within the individual as an example , dispositional optimism is a tendency that applies generally across situations, but situational optimism is having hope and expecting a good outcome in a specific situation and the other example of mentalism traditional is conventional treatments of intelligence that is an usefull and interesting treatments that scientifics use to know important things about intellences.
The practice of mentalism is usually associated with entertainment. Mentalists may function as magicians who perform seemingly impossible tasks in front of an audience, or a medium who claims to be able to give a hot or cold reading to foretell future events in the life of an individual or reveal hidden traits associated with that person. Hypnotists who exercise mind control over subjects are also said to use mental acuity and harness mysterious powers in order to compel their subjects to say or do things they normally would not do. In general, both the performer and the audience know the tricks performed on the stage are not real, but are carefully crafted presentations designed to amuse everyone attending the show.
However, there are also mentalists who claim to have supernatural powers and can use the power of their minds to benefit others. In this form, mentalism is seen as the harnessing of the hidden reserves of the mind that most people are never able to tap into and use actively. This ability to more fully use the resources of the mind allow mentalists to pick up on thought patterns over many miles, perceive future events before they occur, and also reconstruct events after they have happened.While there are many people who do not believe that mentalism is anything more than parlor tricks, there has been an upswing in the acceptance of the possibility of people possessing extraordinary powers of the mind. Along with precognition and the ability to tap into hidden energies to reconstruct events associated with a particular person or location, mentalism may also take the form of psychokinesis.
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20 Mind Explorer/ October, 2013