Our Denial to See the Truth Behind the Patriarch of Jerusalem’s Actions

Living in a house with two psychologists, I once felt the need to ask: what does psychology call the situation when someone you trust harms you, yet because your mind cannot grasp that this very person of trust is attacking you, you freeze and feel as though what’s happening isn’t real? “Denial of reality,” they told me. And that “freezing” is nothing more than the shock that…