States of Denial
Subtitle: Knowing About Atrocities and Suffering
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: January 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780745616575
Subjects: Behavioural theory (Behaviourism); Illness & addiction: social aspects; Political oppression & persecution; Violence in society; Cognitive Psychology; Criminology; Government - Comparative; Geopolitics; Political Philosophy; Politics / Current Events; Defense mechanisms (Psychology); Denial (Psychology); Social aspects; Suffering; Sociology
First sentence: One common thread runs through the many different stories of denial: people, organizations, governments or whole societies are presented with information that is too disturbing, threatening or anomalous to be fully absorbed or openly acknowledged.