Showing posts with label STANLEY COHEN. Show all posts
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08/11/2021

Denial is a complex unconscious defense mechanism

The scientific discourse misses the fact that the ability to deny is an amazing human phenomenon, a product of sheer complexity of our emotional, linguistic, moral and intellectual lives. Denial is a complex unconscious defense mechanism for coping with guilt, anxiety and other disturbing emotions aroused by reality.

- Stanley Cohen