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When one peruses the literature on the defense mechanism of denial, one cannot fail to be impressed with the difficulties we encounter with this concept. Like so many concepts in psychoanalysis, denial is too elastic a term, including too large a group of defensive operations (cf. also Carmi, 1984). However, this state of affairs also has its advantages in that it allows for a conceptual development of the mechanism, albeit in different directions (Sandler, 1983).
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Moses, R. (1989). Denial in Political Process. In: Edelstein, E.L., Nathanson, D.L., Stone, A.M. (eds) Denial. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0737-2_20
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