TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cohen,Stanley
TI  - States of denial: knowing about atrocities and suffering 
SN  - 0745616577
U1  - 301.15 
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Malden
PB  - Blackwell Publishers
KW  - Defense mechanisms (Psychology)
KW  - Denial (Psychology)
KW  - Suffering
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Atrocities
KW  - Human rights
KW  - Violence
N1  - 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?
ER  -