Richard Derus’s Reviews > Denial: How We Hide, Ignore, and Explain Away Problems > Status Update

"It is impossible to underestimate denial. Ppl have strategies to deny any & all things, no matter how credibly demonstrated those things are. But we must not overestimate denial. It belongs to us & to our collective life. It only does the work that we ask of it."
End of the Introduction...very succinct, informative laying-out of the path we're to tread together.

The author's from PINE BUSH?!? Wow. He really grew up in the heartland of Denial.