İnkar, en güçlü insan savunma mekanizmalarından biridir.
- Denial is one of the strongest human defence mechanisms.
İnkâr etmek yararsız olacaktı.
- Denial would have been useless.
Suzanne Fields wrote: Denial came out of the therapyspeak prevalent in the middle of the 20th century, especially as it was applied to confronting the reality of mortality. It was popularized as the first stage of grief, and quickly expanded to include refusal to confront any bad news or disturbing ideas.