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Is Sigmund Freud's Is Denial Ever Healthy?

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‘Is denial ever healthy? Discuss with reference to Sigmund Freud’
Denial is the act of stating a problem or situation never happened. Denial is also one of Sigmund Freud’s many defence mechanisms. Sigmund Freud (1856- 1939) was born in Freiberg, Moravia in 1856. When he was four years old his family moved to Vienna. In 1938 the Nazis seized Austria, and Freud, who was Jewish, left for England. He was a doctor of medicine. He was appointed a university lecturer in neuropathology and was completely fascinated with neurosis which was considered as a person who had a fear of objects that aren’t dangerous and couldn’t harm you. Examples of this being …show more content…

4. Suppression and repression: which are both the same thing of simply ignoring and trying to forget something that makes you anxious. Lastly we have Denial which is arguing against your anxiety etc. by simply stating that it does not exist. Denial can be both healthy and non-healthy. ‘Denial is a psychological defence mechanism that helps a person avoid a potentially distressing truth. It can also be looked at as a form of “avoidance”, which is another psychological term that indicates a person is doing all they can to not deal with a given situation’ Denial can be both a good thing and a bad thing. Most people go through and experience denial at least once in their lives ‘if the same bad outcomes keep happening to us and we can’t seem to figure out why, there a

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