Denial

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.

Here are some examples for which a overwhelming evidence exist and despite that most people insist that they are not true:

• Creator / God
• Primacy of Consciousness
• Morphic Fields
• Water Memory
• Expanding Earth
• Electromagnetic Nature of the Universe (Electric Universe Theory)
• Chemtrails / EM Mass pollution of our planet
• Failure of Economy / Materialistic System
• Failure of Human Governments

The concept of denial is particularly important to the study of addiction. The theory of denial was first researched seriously by Anna Freud. She classified denial as a mechanism of the immature mind, because it conflicts with the ability to learn from and cope with reality. Where denial occurs in mature minds, it is most often associated with death, dying and rape. More recent research has significantly expanded the scope and utility of the concept. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross used denial as the first of five stages in the psychology of a dying patient, and the idea has been extended to include the reactions of survivors to news of a death. Thus, when parents are informed of the death of a child, their first reaction is often of the form, “No! You must have the wrong house, you can’t mean our child!”

Unlike some other defense mechanisms postulated by psychoanalytic theory (for instance, repression), the general existence of denial is fairly easy to verify, even for non-specialists. 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“. However, researchers note that in some cases of corroborated child sexual abuse, the victims sometimes make a series of partial confessions and recantations as they struggle with their own denial and the denial of abusers or family members. Use of denial theory in a legal setting therefore must be carefully regulated and experts’ credentials verified. “Formulaic guilt” simply by “being a denier” has been castigated by English judges and academics.

Different types of Denial

• Denial of fact
• Denial of responsibility
• Denial of impact
• Denial of awareness
• Denial of cycle
• Denial of denial

From all this types, the denial of responsibility is the worst!

Denial of responsibility

This form of denial involves avoiding personal responsibility by:

• blaming: a direct statement shifting culpability and may overlap with denial of fact
• minimizing: an attempt to make the effects or results of an action appear to be less harmful than they may actually be, or
• justifying: when someone takes a choice and attempts to make that choice look okay due to their perception of what is “right” in a situation.

Someone using denial of responsibility is usually attempting to avoid potential harm or pain by shifting attention away from themselves.

Question: If consciousness is the source of order and energy, can you imagine that denying truth will result in a shortage of energy and order???

See also:

• Cognitive Dissonance

• Chemtrailing is Bioterrorism

• Illusion-of-truth Effect

• Dr. Andrew Wakefield response to the measles outbreak in South Wales