Cohen, Stanley. <br/><br/>
States of denial :  knowing about atrocities and suffering / 
St anley Cohen. 
 - Cambridge, UK :   Malden, MA :  Polity ;  Blackwell Publishers,  2001 [Reprinted 2012]. 
 - xvi, 344 p. ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [302]-330) and index. 
<br/><br/>Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. The elementary forms of denial -- 2. Knowing and not-knowing: the psychology of denial -- 3. Denial at wo rk: mechanisms and rhetorical devices -- 4. Accounting for atrocities: perpetrators and officials -- 5. Blocking out the past: personal memori es, public histories -- 6. Bystander states -- 7. Images of suffering - - 8. Appeals: outrage into action -- 9. Digging up graves, opening up w ounds: acknowledging the past -- 10. Acknowledgement now -- 11. Towards cultures of denial? 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0745616577 0745623921 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2004-351257 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Defense mechanisms (Psychology)<br/>Denial (Psychology)<br/>Suffering--social aspects.<br/>Atrocities.<br/>Human rights.<br/>Violence.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>155.9