Chapter 6.Working With Resistance
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In 1912 Freud wrote, “The resistance accompanies the treatment step by step. Every single association, every act of the person under treatment must reckon with the resistance and represents a compromise between the forces that are striving toward recovery and the opposing ones” (Freud 1912/1958, p. 103). As noted in Chapter 1 (“Key Concepts”), the patient’s characteristic defenses emerge as resistances in the interpersonal setting of therapy. Hence, the way the patient opposes a therapist provides valuable information about the patient’s intrapsychic life.
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