1. Denial of Humanity: How European humanism dehumanised the rest of the world

Rachel Pollard

2. Hiding from poverty in the therapy room

Hilary Brown

3. An exploration of some of the more insidious procedures that maintain racism and leave a perpetually unrevised problem procedure

Lorraine Welch

4. How and why we bend ‘reality’ through censorship or faking

Julie Lloyd

5. Understanding Denial Reponses to Climate Change

Emma Chorlton

6. Denial and the benefits system

Louise Kenward

7. The Political Denial of Physical Health Problems

Louise Kenward

8. On Death and Dying (Life and Living)

Claire Moran

9. Colouring outside the lines of gender

Anna Laws

10. Denying, pushing against or accepting Neurodiversity

Emma Chorlton and Julie Lloyd

11. A Fat Woman in a culture obsessed with physical perfection

Julie Lloyd

12. Covid, Denial, Dialogue and the Self: Navigating Covid using Cognitive Analytic Therapy

Steve Jefferis, Rebecca McElroy, Jak Smith and Rowan Tinlin-Dixon

13. Denial: in the therapy room

Marie-Ann Bernardy-Arbuz

14. Denial in forensic teams and organisations

Andrea Daykin and Jackie Whithers

15. The denial of who we essential are. CAT and the psychotherapy traditions

Tony Cartwright

16. Some personal reflections about working and living in a social and political environment that is antithetical to our values both as individuals and therapists

Marisa Poggioli and Cristina Fiorani

17. Brief conclusions

Rachel Pollard and Julie Lloyd