Title | Denial [electronic resource] : A Clarification of Concepts and Research / edited by E. L. Edelstein, Donald L. Nathanson, Andrew M. Stone |
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Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US, 1989 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0737-2 |
Descript | 344p. online resource |
I. Theoretical Issues -- 1. The Evolution of Psychoanalytic Thought on Negation and Denial -- 2. Interactional Perspectives on Denial and Defense -- 3. Denial, Projection, and the Empathic Wall -- II. Basic and Applied Notions -- 4. Denial and Weltanschauung -- 5. Denial in the Use of Language as Related to the Father -- 6. Concerning Certain Vicissitudes of Denial in Personality Development -- 7. The Place of Denial in Adult Development -- 8. Anosognosia: The Neurological Correlate of Denial of Illness -- III. Child Development -- 9. The Child as a Challenge to Adult Denial -- 10. Adolescent Denial: Some Psychoanalytic Reflections on Strength and Weakness -- 11. Varieties of Denial: The Case of a Fairy Tale -- IV. Clinical Implications -- 12. Blinding the Eye of the Mind: Denial, Impulsive Action, and Split Identity -- 13. Denial in Borderlines -- 14. Denial in the Development of Homosexual Men -- 15. Denial as a Central Coping Mechanism in Counterhypochondriasis -- 16. Beyond Denial: Replacement Fantasies in Patients with Life-Threatening Illness -- 17. Denial, Coping, and Cancer -- 18. Denial in Patients with Myocardial Infarction -- V. Social and Political Implications -- 19. Cultural Paradigms for Denial -- 20. Denial in Political Process -- 21. Some Observations on Denial and Avoidance in Jewish Holocaust and Post-Holocaust Experience -- 22. Avoidance and Denial in the Life Cycle of Holocaust Survivors