States of denial :
Cohen, Stanley.
States of denial : knowing about atrocities and suffering / by Stanley Cohen. - Malden : Blackwell Publishers, 2001. - xvi, 344 p. ; ill. ; 23 cm.
Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. The elementary forms of denial -- 2. Knowing and not-knowing: the psychology of denial -- 3. Denial at work: mechanisms and rhetorical devices -- 4. Accounting for atrocities: perpetrators and officials -- 5. Blocking out the past: personal memories, public histories -- 6. Bystander states -- 7. Images of suffering -- 8. Appeals: outrage into action -- 9. Digging up graves, opening up wounds: acknowledging the past -- 10. Acknowledgement now -- 11. Towards cultures of denial?
0745616577 0745623921 (pbk.)
Defense mechanisms (Psychology)
Denial (Psychology)
Suffering--Social aspects.
Atrocities.
Human rights.
Violence.
301.15 / COH P01S
States of denial : knowing about atrocities and suffering / by Stanley Cohen. - Malden : Blackwell Publishers, 2001. - xvi, 344 p. ; ill. ; 23 cm.
Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. The elementary forms of denial -- 2. Knowing and not-knowing: the psychology of denial -- 3. Denial at work: mechanisms and rhetorical devices -- 4. Accounting for atrocities: perpetrators and officials -- 5. Blocking out the past: personal memories, public histories -- 6. Bystander states -- 7. Images of suffering -- 8. Appeals: outrage into action -- 9. Digging up graves, opening up wounds: acknowledging the past -- 10. Acknowledgement now -- 11. Towards cultures of denial?
0745616577 0745623921 (pbk.)
Defense mechanisms (Psychology)
Denial (Psychology)
Suffering--Social aspects.
Atrocities.
Human rights.
Violence.
301.15 / COH P01S