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Denial is, among patients, a natural response that may be helping them to deal with the illness and should be respected.
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Denial is a way of taking cognizance of what is repressed... indeed it is already a lifting of repression, though not, of course, an acceptance of what is repressed.
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Denial is a refusal to recognize, for whatever reason, something unacceptable about oneself, a drive, an idea, a conflict, the fact of internal complexity.
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Denial is the conscious or unconscious repudiation of part or all of the total available meanings of an event to allay fear, anxiety, or other unpleasant affect.
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Denial is the intellectual substitute for repression', and is as such a conscious process.
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What do you call a Jedi in denial?Obi-Wan Cannot Be