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British Journal of Sports Medicine Feb 2000
Review
Topics: Denial, Psychological; Female; Humans; Male; Mental Disorders; Sports; Stereotyping
PubMed: 10690441
DOI: 10.1136/bjsm.34.1.4 -
The Canadian Nurse Feb 1994Health caregivers working with palliative patients in the home are able to establish closer relationships with these patients than in the palliative hospital setting....
Health caregivers working with palliative patients in the home are able to establish closer relationships with these patients than in the palliative hospital setting. Since a familiar and comfortable setting helps set the stage for effective communication, it is not surprising that home care patients and their families often share intimate thoughts and feelings with visiting caregivers. Yet that same closeness can make it more difficult for a home caregiver to accept a patient's denial of impending death. While agreeing that, in theory, denial is a normal defence mechanism, the home caregiver may have become too emotionally involved to appreciate denial as a particular patient's choice.
Topics: Adaptation, Psychological; Denial, Psychological; Empathy; Humans; Nurse-Patient Relations; Palliative Care
PubMed: 7514957
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The American Journal of Psychiatry Dec 1979
Topics: Affect; Character; Denial, Psychological; Disease; Humans
PubMed: 507233
DOI: 10.1176/ajp.136.12.aj136121615 -
Social Science & Medicine (1982) Oct 2004Terminally ill patients and their families are often referred to as being "in denial" of impending death. This study uses the qualitative method of discourse analysis to...
Terminally ill patients and their families are often referred to as being "in denial" of impending death. This study uses the qualitative method of discourse analysis to investigate the usage of the term "denial" in the contemporary hospice and palliative care literature. A Medline search (1970-2001) was performed combining the text words "deny" and "denial" with the subject headings "terminal care", "palliative care" and "hospice care," and restricted to English articles discussing death denial in adults. The 30 articles were analysed using a constant comparison technique and emerging themes regarding the meaning and usage of the words "deny" and "denial" identified. This paper focusses on the theme of denial as an individual psychological process. Three dominant subthemes were distinguished: denial as an unconscious "defence mechanism", denial as "healthy" and denial as temporary. The analysis focusses on the intertextuality of these themes with each other and with previous texts on the denial of death. Elements of the psychoanalytic definition of denial as an unconscious defence mechanism are retained in the literature but are interwoven with new themes on patient choice. The result is an overall discourse that is conflictual and at times self-contradictory but overall consistent with the biomedical model of illness. I suggest that the representation of death denial elaborated in these articles may be related to a larger discourse on dying in contemporary Western society, which both invites patients to participate in the planning of their death and labels those who do not comply.
Topics: Attitude to Death; Canada; Denial, Psychological; Humans; Palliative Care
PubMed: 15279932
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.02.012 -
Explore (New York, N.Y.) 2020The denial of the Holocaust before and during WWII by German citizens is compared to present-day denial of climate change. Psychological dynamics supporting such denial...
The denial of the Holocaust before and during WWII by German citizens is compared to present-day denial of climate change. Psychological dynamics supporting such denial are examined, along with ways in which such denial might be overcome.
Topics: Climate Change; Denial, Psychological; Holocaust; Humans; Spirituality; Stress, Psychological
PubMed: 31771823
DOI: 10.1016/j.explore.2019.11.004 -
Crisis 2004
Topics: Denial, Psychological; Humans; Suicide, Attempted; Survivors
PubMed: 15387215
DOI: 10.1027/0227-5910.25.2.78 -
Psychiatric Services (Washington, D.C.) Apr 1998
Topics: Deinstitutionalization; Denial, Psychological; Humans; Mental Disorders
PubMed: 9550251
DOI: 10.1176/ps.49.4.536-a -
The American Journal of Bioethics : AJOB Sep 2018
Topics: Denial, Psychological; Humans
PubMed: 30265597
DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2018.1498944 -
Advances in Psychosomatic Medicine 1988
Review
Topics: Adaptation, Psychological; Denial, Psychological; Humans; Neoplasms; Sick Role
PubMed: 3044025
DOI: 10.1159/000415775 -
Gynecologie, Obstetrique & Fertilite 2009
Topics: Denial, Psychological; Female; Humans; Knowledge; Pregnancy; Reality Testing; Social Class
PubMed: 19828349
DOI: 10.1016/j.gyobfe.2009.09.012