Assertion: denier's denial | /r/HasProperty | a defense mechanism
Facets:
value: in psychoanalytic theory
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: In psychoanalytic theory (which has been criticized as unscientific and factually unfounded), denial is a defense mechanism in which a person is faced with a fact that is too uncomfortable to accept and rejects it instead, insisting that it is not true despite what may be overwhelming evidence.