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Serge Tisseron: "Denial is a dangerous refusal of the unexpected"

2022-11-30T14:46:09.283Z


FIGAROVOX/INTERVIEW - The psychiatrist explores the contemporary ostrich syndrome which prevents societies and individuals from acting in the face of crises.


Pandemic, global warming, invasion in Ukraine… foreseeable events that we deliberately wanted to ignore.

After focusing on shame or empathy, Serge Tisseron, a psychiatrist familiar with the general public and member of the Institute, examines the mechanism of denial which prevents everyone from facing the most tragic realities and which can lead to conspiracy.

Based on numerous examples, and not without humour, the author of nearly forty books and a fervent admirer of Tintin publishes

Le Déni ou la fabrique de l'blindment

chez Albin Michel.

LE FIGARO.

- Why care about denial?

Serge TISERON.

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We all want to enjoy life in the best it brings us, and for that, we avoid being interested in anything that could worry us.

But there are times when it becomes increasingly difficult not to see that the climate is warming, or that Russia has bellicose intentions.

So…

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Source: lefigaro

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