Betrayal of Souls and Denial of the Genocide Gregg Rickman Cutting Edge human rights analyst   Ottoman soldiers and mass hangings of Armenians Credit: James Nazer (Photo @cutting edge)   In the book The Guilt of Nations, Elazar Barkan wrote, “For a ‘new’ history to become more than a partisan ‘extremist’ story, the narrative often has to persuade not only the members ...

Sent by our reader Saertna: Dr. Hilary Knatz, states that “Denial, is a way of coping with unpleasant realities”. Denial, in the psychological/psychiatric vernacular, is a defensive strategy to minimize anxiety. It is defined and conceptualized in a number of ways. In classical Freudian terms, denial is a defense mechanism invoked by a person when there ...