The USA’s failure to contain COVID-19 has been spectacular from every angle. Looked at as a case of mass non-adherence to medical advice, however, it’s unique in modern history. Never before have so many citizens had so much access to information and simultaneously protested public health recommendations with such full-throated denial of the medical facts.
The media has covered psychological denial as a cause of non-adherence to public health recommendations for COVID-19, climate change, and other risks, but public health officials have not, to date, employed the concept in a systematic way, if at all. We propose it is time that public health officials add the study and treatment of psychological denial to their toolkit for combatting medical non-adherence. To do that, we suggest a new partnership between the fields of experimental psychology, public health, and psychoanalysis—the field that first postulated defence mechanisms like denial, and still the only field that attempts to treat them….
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