Table of Contents

I. Theoretical Issues.- 1. The Evolution of Psychoanalytic Thought on Negation and Denial.- 2. Interactional Perspectives on Denial and Defense.- 3. Denial, Projection, and the Empathic Wall.- II. Basic and Applied Notions.- 4. Denial and Weltanschauung.- 5. Denial in the Use of Language as Related to the Father.- 6. Concerning Certain Vicissitudes of Denial in Personality Development.- 7. The Place of Denial in Adult Development.- 8. Anosognosia: The Neurological Correlate of Denial of Illness.- III. Child Development.- 9. The Child as a Challenge to Adult Denial.- 10. Adolescent Denial: Some Psychoanalytic Reflections on Strength and Weakness.- 11. Varieties of Denial: The Case of a Fairy Tale.- IV. Clinical Implications.- 12. Blinding the Eye of the Mind: Denial, Impulsive Action, and Split Identity.- 13. Denial in Borderlines.- 14. Denial in the Development of Homosexual Men.- 15. Denial as a Central Coping Mechanism in Counterhypochondriasis.- 16. Beyond Denial: Replacement Fantasies in Patients with Life-Threatening Illness.- 17. Denial, Coping, and Cancer.- 18. Denial in Patients with Myocardial Infarction.- V. Social and Political Implications.- 19. Cultural Paradigms for Denial.- 20. Denial in Political Process.- 21. Some Observations on Denial and Avoidance in Jewish Holocaust and Post-Holocaust Experience.- 22. Avoidance and Denial in the Life Cycle of Holocaust Survivors.

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