The big question is whether the ads will push parents and children toward help, or toward denial.
" There is a tremendous tendency toward denial," she said.
This denial goes far toward explaining why New York architecture is in such bad shape.
Their expressions are tight and their commentary defensive, veering toward denial.
Part of his work, he often said, was to force traders to see their tendency toward denial and rationalization.
IT takes a certain talent to live in happy denial, to slide toward the edge of a precipice and be perfectly relaxed about it.
And counselors tend to engage in double-think: if the patient says he's an alcoholic, he is; if he refuses to admit he has a problem, he's an alcoholic "in denial" and headed toward the gutter.
All of which would send everyone hurtling back toward denial, right?
Numbness can be physical, psychological, or both; for soldiers, it can be a trauma response ("shell shock") or coping mechanism; for civilians in wartime, it can manifest as denial or indifference toward human suffering.
Adolescents may be unreliable informants because they are too young to give an adequate assessment of their own functioning, lack a time perspective, or have a tendency toward denial, while parents may be unreliable because of unrealistic anxieties about the health, future, and behavior of their children [ 36, 37].
