States of denial : knowing about atrocities and suffering / Stanley Cohen.
Blocking out, turning a blind eye, shutting off, not wanting to know, wearing blinkers, seeing what we want to see ... these are all expressions of 'denial'. Alcoholics who refuse to recognize their condition, people who brush aside suspicions of their partner's infidelity, the wife w...
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Cambridge, UK : Malden, MA :
Polity ; Blackwell Publishers,
2001.
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