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Positively Stinking Thinking

Jim Selman | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Denial, Newsweek, Obsession, Serene Ambition, Creative Thinking, Positive Thinking, The Secret, Julia Baird, Reality, Jim Selman, Barbara Ehrenreich, Truth, Happiness, Living News
Jim Selman

Positive thinking tends to tranquilize us into a 'good feeling' about the future and blinds us to the facts of a given situation. We think our points-of-view are true -- that our 'will' can determine what happens.

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Plastic Surgery Denial Syndrome

Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 10.14.2009 | Style

Read More: Denial, Bad Plastic Surgery, Weight Gain, Botox, Nicole Kidman, Plastic Surgery, Weight Loss, Kathie Lee Gifford, Pamela Anderson, Style News
Irene Rubaum-Keller

"Your lips are not meant to be flotation devices for your face in case it capsizes." Carol Leifer Have you seen Nicole Kidman lately? Delta Burke?...

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Searching for the Crisis and Finding It

Danny Schechter | Posted 09.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Hunger, Unemployment, Banks, Denial, Consumer Spending, Who Needs Credit Cards, Economic Crisis, Economic Recovery, Recession Not Over, Recession, Business News
Danny Schechter

Out in the street, you notice fewer cabs and town cars. There are retail vacancies on every block. Stores are discounting everything. When JC Penny opened in Midtown, 15,000 people applied for 500 jobs.

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Have Patience: Republicans Are Working Their Way Through the Five Stages of Grieving

Michael Hais and Morley Winograd | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Denial, Health Care, Gop, Anger, Millennial Generation, Hispanics, Town Hall Debate, Obama Healthcare, Healthcare System, On-Death-and-Dying, GOP Debate, Universal Healthcare, Republican Leadership, Obama Town Hall, Healthcare Reform, Town Hall Meetings, Extreme Right Wing, Healthcare, Politics News
Michael Hais and Morley Winograd

Suffering from a series of unexpected and unexplainable defeats, Republicans are likely to go off on a prolonged period of silence and eventually die for lack of political support.

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Climate Inaction: All in Our Heads?

Linda Buzzell | Posted 09.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Denial, Climate Change, Psychology, Ecopsychology, Climate Crisis, Ecotherapy, Green News
Linda Buzzell

A national poll showed 75% to 80% of respondents said that climate change is an important issue. But respondents also ranked it last in a list of 20 compelling issues, such as the economy or terrorism.

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Will Climate Change Denial Doom the Planet?

Everett Ehrlich | Posted 07.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Denial, Green, Superman, Climate Change, Climate Crisis, Jor-El, Green News
Everett Ehrlich

If we are to avert catastrophic climate change, we must understand the psychology of the "Elders of Krypton" among us today.

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Pakistan's Problem with Taliban Denial

Olivia Sterns | Posted 07.02.2009 | World

Read More: Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Denial, Lahore, Husain Haqqani, Taliban Lahore, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Pakistan Taliban, Lahore Attacks, Taliban, Taliban Pakistan, Kashmir, Osama Bin Laden, World News
Olivia Sterns

In the long-term, defeating the Taliban will depend not just on resolving the causes they use to recruit, but on uprooting popular denial.

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Conducting Autism Research Like It's 1994

Kim Stagliano | Posted 05.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Denial, Dr-Paul-Offit, Autism, American-Academy-of-Pediatrics, Research, Money, Vaccines, Living News
Kim Stagliano

The Autism Science Foundation: Their mission? To boldly go back to exactly what they were doing before doctors and researchers and even some uppity folks at Autism Speaks started asking pesky questions about vaccines.

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GOP Economic Policy as an Exercise in Grief Management: Denial, Anger & Rush Limbaugh

Rob Shapiro | Posted 04.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Denial, Financial Crisis, Keep People in Their Homes, Rush Limbaugh, Bobby Jindal, Economy, Gop, Rush Limbaugh Cpac, Rush Limbaugh Republicans, Cpac, Limbaugh Obama, Rush Limbaugh Obama, Limbaugh Head of GOP, Limbaugh Cpac, Republican Party, Politics News
Rob Shapiro

The leaders of the Republican Party, reeling from their painful string of defeats, seem stuck in two of the classic stages of grief, denial and anger.

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Burris Has Blagojevitis (Main Symptom: Denying Any Wrongdoing!)

Stanton Peele | Posted 03.19.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Denial, Chris Brown, Rod Blagojevich, Rihanna Chris Brown, Roland Burris, Denialism, Chris Dodd, Roland Burris Senate Appointment, Chris Brown Apology, Blagojevitis, Chicago News
Stanton Peele

Blagojevitis involves a cognitive confusion over the two great scandal-suppression techniques all public figures learn: "deny, deny, deny," and "confess, apologize, and move on."

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An Open Letter to Tom Daschle

Mimi Kennedy | Posted 03.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Taxes, Open Letters, Daschle Health and Human Services, Insurance Companies, Democrats, Nicaragua, Denial, Letters, Bush Administration, Bosnia, Tom Daschle, Health Care Reform, Denialism, Somalia, Vietnam, Tom Daschle Health and Human Services, Iraq, Health and Human Services, Health Care, Politics News
Mimi Kennedy

You are a delinquent taxpayer, which undermines our trust in your fiscal judgment.

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Big Fat Denial

Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 02.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Denial, Healthy Eating, Weight Control, Losing Weight, Dieting, Health, Self Image, Weight Loss Tips, Weight Loss, Eating, Diet, Living News
Irene Rubaum-Keller

If you are in some form of fat denial, you may find yourself avoiding the scale. This can go so far as avoiding going to the doctor as they always weigh you there.

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Obama Is "Wake Up," McCain Is "Let Me Sleep"

Deepak Chopra | Posted 10.27.2008 | Home

Read More: Denial, Change, John McCain, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Home News
Deepak Chopra

The urgency that anyone feels, or doesn't feel, about the 2008 election rests on the issue of waking up. Over two-thirds of Americans tell pollsters t...

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The Five Stages Of Political Grieving: Acceptance Comes to Camp Clinton

Nathaniel Bach | Posted 05.15.2008 | Home

Read More: Five Stages of Grief, Depression, Michigan Delegates, Unity Ticket, Barack Obama, Grieving, Denial, Acceptance, Obama/Clinton Ticket, Obama/Clinton, Anger, Florida Delegates, North Carolina Primary, Hillary Clinton, Bargaining, North Carolina, Indiana Primary, Home News
Nathaniel Bach

Psychology may be too "elite" for the new Clintons, but it seems clear they're more than midway through the five classic stages of grieving: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance.

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