States of denial : knowing about atrocities and suffering / Stanley Cohen.
By: Cohen, Stanley.
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BookPublisher: Cambridge, UK : Malden, MA : Polity ; Blackwell Publishers, 2001Description: xvi, 344 p. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9780745623924; 0745623921 (pbk.).Subject(s): Defense mechanisms (Psychology) | Denial (Psychology) | Suffering -- Social aspects | Atrocities | Human rights | ViolenceDDC classification: 155.9 Online resources: Table of contents
Contents:
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?
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [302]-330) and index.
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?
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