Resistances in a Hospital Setting: Issues in Resolution

Maxine Sigman, Ph.D.Authors Info & Affiliations

Publication: American Journal of Psychotherapy

Volume 50, Number 1

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1996.50.1.90

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This article describes multiple forms of resistances—patients toward reality, staff toward patients, staff toward staff, and my own counterresistances— in a hospital setting. Examples derive from within the psychiatric system itself, group work with a chronically ill population, a multiple family therapy group, and a case conference setting.

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American Journal of Psychotherapy

Volume 50 • Number 1 • 1996, pp. 1–132

Pages: 90 - 101

PubMed: 8867578

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Published in print: 1996, pp. 1–132

Published online: 30 April 2018

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Maxine Sigman, Ph.D.

Lecturer, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University. Clinical Affiliate, Department of Psychiatry, Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital, Montreal.

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Mailing address: 6100 Cote des Neiges #305, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3S 1Z7.

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Resistances in a Hospital Setting: Issues in Resolution

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