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Denial is often seen as an inability or unwillingness to face unpleasant or difficult realities--from financial losses, to illnesses like alcoholism, to larger social issues like climate change. In some instances, denial can be detrimental because it can keep you stuck in a cycle of destructive behaviors. However, denial can also be very useful for helping you get through hard times, allowing you to tap into your resiliency for emotional survival.With great insight and originality, author Holly Parker shows you how to use denial as a buffer in the face of tragedy and how to know when your use of denial has become counterproductive or detrimental. Through a fresh, comforting, and clinically-based perspective, Parker takes the shame out of denial with practical and relatable solutions to uncovering, reframing, and harnessing this very normal coping technique.
About the Author
Holly Parker, PhD., is an associate director of training at the Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital and a psychology lecturer at Harvard University. She earned her doctorate in Experimental Psychopathology from Harvard University and engaged in research on coping and resilience after traumatic loss, among other topics. She then respecialized in Clinical Psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
She is the author of "When Reality Bites: How Denial Helps and What to Do When It Hurts" and "If We're Together, Why Do I Feel So Alone? " (January 3, 2017)
Holly lives in Boston with Guille, her extremely cool husband and kindred spirit, relishes running, studying Spanish, time travel stories, and The Walking Dead, and has no skill whatsoever in pet training.
