Denial and rejection is one of the most powerful weapons that can turn a man into an evil.

Some readers may find it a curious or even unscientific endeavour to craft a criminological model of organised abuse based on the testimony of survivors. One of the standard objections to qualitative research is that...

In very rare cases, people will be self-satisfied and content within themselves. More often than not the very same people who choose to live alone are simply in denial after a painful experience or the...

YOU CAN RUN, BUT CAN NOT HIDE”The statement, ‘after giving it much thought’, hardly becomes credible when one spends less that 24 hours in that endeavor. In fact, it is really giving something very little...

false convictions” by defense lawyers and political activists deserve far greater scrutiny from the media and the public.journal: Cheit, Ross E. “The Legend of Robert Halsey.” Journal of child sexual abuse 9.3-4 (2002): 37-52.

Buried emotions are caged nighthawks that have fallen in love with the moon. They don’t understand the sun because they were born with the darkness of shadows in their soul.

Well, it was not. There was never denial of a visa.

It’s no secret that we all live within a damning illusion called denial. We are doomed by our own far-reaching imaginations and beliefs that extend into a glorified version of eternity. How are we to...

Confidence turns into pride only when you are in denial of your mistakes.

What was the payoff? It obviously kept me in my cozy zone of being in control, being a good mother, with a good daughter. Most of all, I realize, is that it allowed me to...

I am not sure if we are numbed to the reality of rape, but here’s the sad irony. While the word rape can add an edginess to your language, talking about actual rape is taboo....

Fourteen years without a mother had me believe I could be stoic when I finally met her.

We have had this discussion before. You are my son. I love you. I will always love you. But I also love Nell, and if you give her the chance and stop rejecting her advances,...

Maggie scoffed. “Denial will not save you when Cupid’s arrow find its mark.””If i see Cupid anywhere in the vicinity, I’m ripping his chubby little arms off.” Vanda yanked the door open to Romatech.

Load sharing across multiple servers helps reduce the impact of classic [distributed denial-of-service] attacks because there are multiple versions of a Web site operating across the Internet,

When you have a plan in your mind of what the best life is for you, but it doesn’t match your life, you have pain.

You must always focus on and pursue the good, but when that darkness surges up from within, you need to know how to handle it, use it, and release it wisely, not just deny its...

To find out if she really loved me, I hooked her up to a lie detector. And just as I suspected, my machine was broken.

you cannot replace negative beliefs with positive ones you can’t believe- positive ones that are too ambitious. you must find and choose a thought that allows you to feel relief.

We’re here today because we’re not in denial, … At United today, we face facts.

I sometimes wonder whether our churches–living as we do in American death-denying culture, relentlessly smiling through our praise choruses–are inadvertently helping people live not as much in hope as in denial.

Why do you fight it?” I whisper.”Because this is wrong. I lost my head for a moment. I’d blame the alcohol but that would be a lie.

Users have to kill out of the browser and start over again. This stalled browser creates a DOS (denial of service) condition.

Let’s be honest, the world’s always been a scary place with very little charm.” I try to brush it off as I’ve brushed off the flu, as I brushed off the death of my father...

Even as your body betrays you, your mind denies it.

When you blame others, what you are really saying is what is inside of you can’t be fixed, so you have no control of your own happiness. Therefore, you have made the conscience choice to...

Another preoccupation fed into this dynamic relationship between discovery and denial: does sexual abuse actually matter? Should it, in fact, be allowed? After all, it was only in the 19070s that the Paedophile Information Exchange...

We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our being consumed by it. As a matter of fact, in the popular black...

It’s fallacious reasoning for the atheist to hate all religion due to men who manipulate religion to fit their own agendas. They are counterparts, therefore, if Truth is true, partners in crime. To believers, the...

Deny a man pleasure, the possession of woman’s body and he will show you his true colors.He will dismiss his frustration onto her, forcibly abuse her, offend her all at the cost of his desires,...

I have blogged previously about the dangerous and deadly effects of science denialism, from the innocent babies unnecessarily exposed to deadly diseases by other kids whose parents are anti-vaxxers, to the frequent examples of how...

The human mind isn’t a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth or to conveniently avoid it, choose the convenience and peace of normality. That...

Research on organised abuse emphasises the diversity of organised abuse cases, and the ways in which serious forms of child maltreatment cluster in the lives of children subject to organised victimisation (eg Bibby 1996b, Itziti...

Denial exists when three beliefs intersect:1. It cannot happen. 2. It cannot happen to you.3. It cannot happen to you now.

We numb our minds and heart so one need not be broken and the other need not be bothered.

The witch-hunt narrative is a really popular story that goes like this: Lots of people were falsely convicted of child sexual abuse in the 1980s and early 1990s. And they were all victims of a...

I cannot understand why anyone would target schools and teachers. These attacks amount to a denial of the human right to education for Afghanistan’s children.

We have reached the age of denial, we have become happiness seekers, afraid to feel. We are told to think positive, to seek only joy. Stores overflow with books selling you ways to rid yourself...

Denial is fear gone delusional. Acceptance is fear given to God. Engaging is fear overruled by God. Victory is fear banished by God.

was it possible that i was, in the modern term, in denial?

The boomers look better than any other generation their ages has. But as they now enter their 50s and 60s, their denial system is breaking down.

Like any good Englishman, he detests emotions and prefers a healthy dose of denial and tea.

The first stage of ignorance is illusion, due to lack of exposure to reality. The second stage of ignorance is delusion, or the refusal to acknowledge reality. The third stage of ignorance is the rejection...

what you knowand don’t deny thatyou don’t knowand knowing thisyou knowwhat and whyyou don’t know.Right?

It was clear that the house was run on a certain system, of either great pomposity or great denial – it was too early for her to make up her mind about which one it...

The moonlight rained down on the beach as if to shine a spotlight on my solitude, and I wanted to cry out at it, ‘Why did you take her? You, surrounded by all of your...

People’s behaviors are messages, not a diagnosis because I can no longer discern the world’s version of insanity.

DENIALDefense mechanism in which the existence of unpleasant realities is disavowed; refers to keeping out of conscious awareness any aspects of external reality that, if acknowledged, would produce anxiety.

There have been extensive human rights violations by American psychiatrists over the last 70 years. These doctors were pad by the American taxpayer through CIA and military contracts. It is past time for these abuses...

I never did anything in life to anyone’s imagination.