Word: denialism
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...disease is all about denial," Musselman said. "It's the mastery of self-deception...
Social and health agencies are trying to reach more AIDS sufferers before they pass away so that their children can be better prepared. That's not easy. Denial and shame are sometimes so strong that some parents never admit, to officials or anyone else, that they have AIDS. Marina Alvarez is not one of them. She founded a support group in the Bronx, New York, for mothers like herself who are HIV positive. "Information dispels fear," she says. "I can't say that my sons are absolutely O.K. with my illness. I don't think anybody's ever O.K. with...
Neighbor has denied all allegations of negligence and reiterated her denial in an interviewyesterday...
Karen Finley and Eric Bogosian are about as serious as artists can get before they become indistinguishable from evangelical preachers, and even these two occasionally push the envelope. Their agendas are a little different from most preachers: "A Certain Level of Denial" and "Dog Show, Pounding Nails in the Floor with my Forehead," presented back to back as part of the A.R.T. Fall Festival, both excoriate mainstream America for closing its eyes to the crises of our day--suicide, AIDS, abortion, homophobia, permanent impoverishment. Their respective portraits of the national psyche are grim and unremittingly scathing, but there...
...hard and so brutally that the social criticism can be self-defeating, making its audience feel distant rather than implicated and aroused to action. But they show us the selves we'd often rather not see, and make us acutely aware of the cost of any level of denial. One of Bogosian's characters scoffs, "the world is a complicated place and trying to understand it ain't gonna make it any less complicated." Trying to understand the world Finley and Bogosian confront us with may not make our lives any less complicated, but it may make them a little...