Download or read book Denial - Unabridged Guide written by Jacqueline Steven and published by Tebbo. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete, Unabridged Guide to Denial. Get the information you need--fast! This comprehensive guide offers a thorough view of key knowledge and detailed insight. It's all you need. Here's part of the content - you would like to know it all? Delve into this book today!..... : Denial (also called abnegation) is a defense mechanism postulated by Sigmund Freud, in which a person is faced with a fact that is too uncomfortable to accept and rejects it instead, insisting that it is not true despite what may be overwhelming evidence. ...On the other hand, denial is one of the most controversial defense mechanisms, since it can be easily used to create unfalsifiable theories: anything the subject says or does that appears to disprove the interpreter's theory is explained, not as evidence that the interpreter's theory is wrong, but as the subject's being in denial. ... When a family intervention is conducted to help a person engaged in self-destructive behavior such as alcohol or drug abuse to accept help for his problem, denial is sometimes reduced or eliminated altogether. ... DARVO is an acronym to describe a common strategy of abusers: Deny the abuse, then Attack the victim for attempting to make them accountable for their offense, thereby Reversing Victim and Offender. There is absolutely nothing that isn't thoroughly covered in the book. It is straightforward, and does an excellent job of explaining all about Denial in key topics and material. There is no reason to invest in any other materials to learn about Denial. You'll understand it all. Inside the Guide: Denial, Gaslighting, Enabling, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Domestic violence, Deprogramming, Denialism, Defence mechanisms, Criticism, Cover-up, Confirmation bias, Compartmentalization (psychology), Closed circle, Climate change denial, Child sexual abuse, Abuse