I've met killers -soft-spoken, pleasant, and courteous-whose psychological denial is so profound that their perpetration of a killing seems inconceivable.

At times, gagging may also be attributed to psychological denial of the denture.

I didn't know psychological denial could drop so many IQ points over the side.

It must have been a case of psychological denial.

This domestic task seemed to be evidence of total psychological denial, a reaction unworthy of the unshakeable, eternally competent man whom she had married.

"The traumatic experience is usually followed by psychological denial."

Other teachers sometimes recoil from their battered colleague in psychological denial that the same thing could happen to them, Dr. Feder said.

The final speculative reason that I shall mention for irrational failure to try to solve a perceived problem is psychological denial.

Although psychological denial is a phenomenon well established in individual psychology, it seems likely to apply to group psychology as well.

Patients, after all, are often unaware of their illness or in a state of psychological denial, while caregivers feel tired and depressed much of the time.