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The Full Facts Book of Cold Reading: A Comprehensive Guide to the Most Persuasive Psychological Manipulation Technique in the World

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This is a great book. I discovered this via a ref in a Darren Brown book. Lots of people are fooled, even "highly educated" people can be fooled. If you are thinking about getting your cards read, it is recommended that you learn how these tricks work. This book is relatively expensive but an investment to protect yourself and those you care about.

I am a licensed Clinical social worker and tarot enthusiast. I found Ians book facinating not only in reference to "Psychic readings" but also the chapter about forensic interviewing. (I bought mine directly from the publisher for $50.) I use these techniques with offenders to get them to talk. Its amazng and so simple...yet it works!! I don't know if Ian has written anything else but I would buy it!

You can buy this book direct from the publisher for about $50, I think.

This book covers every single method used by psychics. How to draw out information from people and how to feed it back to sound like it came as an insight from you.

This s an expensive book, to be sure. But if you want to know the methods, this is the best source. I highly recommend it.

The book is very illuminating and entertaining, but my copy had many pages that bled through, and started to disintegrate -- pages simply dropped out of the binding -- almost immediately.

I contacted Mr. Rowland and asked for a replacement. He acknowledged that there had been a print run that showed these defects, but insisted that I ship the book back to England -- at my own expense -- in order to obtain a replacement.

I decided that this was absurd, and chose not to pursue the matter; but I subsequently wanted to reread the book, which by now had become essentially a collection of loose pages. I have now written to Mr. Rowland three times, once including digital photos of the loose pages and bleed-through -- and he has not had the decency even to reply.

Given the somewhat inflated price of the book, I find his attitude particularly unreasonable. If you buy it, know that if you have a problem with it you're on your own: don't bother contacting him, he can't be bothered.