[He says the ordeal led to] denial, repression, accommodation and disassociation ... subconsciously repressed.

I don't like denial. I don't like repression.

... you sometimes had to force people to say things they would rather not articulate, just so they could hear their own words. It was interesting the way people could know things and not know them at the same time. Denial, he said, was like a thick stone wall.

I wonder if being sane means disregarding the chaos that is life, pretending only an infinitesimal segment of it is reality.

Dreams of innocence are just that; they usually depend on a denial of reality that can be its own form of hubris.

A lot people are in denial about it. They look at it as a real negative. It's a coping mechanism and not a positive one.