States of denial : knowing about atrocities and suffering / Stanley Cohen

Publication | Library Call Number: BF175.5.D44 C64 2001

Format: Book
Author/Creator: Cohen, Stanley.
Published: Cambridge, UK : Polity ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 2001
Includes bibliographical references (p. [302]-330) and index
Language: English

Physical Description: xvi, 344 p. ; 23 cm.
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?
Notes
Index.
ISBN: 0745616577
0745623921 (pbk.)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [302]-330) and index.
Subjects: Defense mechanisms (Psychology)
Denial (Psychology)
Suffering--Social aspects.
Atrocities.
Human rights.
Violence.
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