Word: denialism
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...Rumanian minister, whose religious views prompted the communist regime to force him out of his native country, said last night that self-fulfillment is found through self-denial and allowing God to govern one's life...
Speaking on the question, "Why is self-denial unpopular today?" Dr. Joseph Ton last night told an audience of 100 in the Science Center that "society has fallen prey to the deception that independence is the way to self-fulfillment...
...true anorexic won't call us [EPO]," says Mihelich. "Characteristic of the disorder is a vehement denial of thinness. Their perception is skewed. They really see themselves as big when they are so painfully small. It has to do with the hypothalmus gland in the brain which is affected by starvation," says Mihelich...
Terrorist's Denial...
During those long months, Shcharansky relates, he inevitably turned inward, and his sense of his own Jewishness grew. "Before my arrest . . . I was an assimilated Jew, as practically all Jews are in the Soviet Union. But I gradually came to realize that my denial of my national identity as a Jew was a self-deception...