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Résumé :
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....

Biographie:
yet the methods by which this is accomplished vary greatly. We clinicians assign to these various mech? anisms names that fit whatever theoretical system is central to our work-the healthy suppression of background noise allows us to pay attention to certain matters...

Sommaire:
We do not think about everything at once all the time. Various mecha? nisms allow us to choose from among the themes, issues, topics, feelings, ideas, and memories that might occupy consciousness. One can focus selectively on anything deemed important...