Resistance in Psychotherapy
The Eight Forms – Clinical Approaches and Meaning in the Therapeutic Process
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Beschreibung
Patients enter psychotherapy because they suffer from distressing symptoms or relationship problems and want to change something about them. At the same time, change is frightening: on the one hand, it calls into question an often painstakingly achieved psychological balance. On the other hand, the many abysses that patients must overcome on their developmental path still lie shrouded in fog. That is why they oppose the therapeutic process of change with various forms of resistance from the very beginning. This volume explores how this phenomenon is understood across different therapeutic approaches and what it means in clinical work. The eight forms of resistance identified in psychoanalysis are presented in detail using illustrative case vignettes. The book highlights the importance of the psychodynamic principle that resistance must be addressed before the underlying content can be explored and shows why all forms of therapy risk failure when it is not recognized and worked through.
The Author
Thomas Abel is a licensed psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, trauma therapist, ISTFP-certified therapist in Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP), group analyst, supervisor and training analyst. He is based in Berlin, where he works in private practice within the German public health system. He also teaches at several psychotherapy and psychoanalytic training institutes.
The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence. A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content.
This book is a translation of an original German edition. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content, so that the book will read stylistically differently from a conventional translation.
Patients enter psychotherapy because they suffer from distressing symptoms or relationship problems and want to change something about them. At the same time, change is frightening: on the one hand, it calls into question an often painstakingly achieved psychological balance. On the other hand, the many abysses that patients must overcome on their developmental path still lie shrouded in fog. That is why they oppose the therapeutic process of change with various forms of resistance from the very beginning. This volume explores how this phenomenon is understood across different therapeutic approaches and what it means in clinical work. The eight forms of resistance identified in psychoanalysis are presented in detail using illustrative case vignettes. The book highlights the importance of the psychodynamic principle that resistance must be addressed before the underlying content can be explored and shows why all forms of therapy risk failure when it is not recognized and worked through.
Applicable to all guideline-based psychotherapy approaches Places resistance work at the center of successful psychotherapies Broad procedural overview of how to deal with resistance in psychotherapy
Autor*in
Thomas Abel
Themen in »Resistance in Psychotherapy«
Compliance in Psychotherapy Repression Resistance Transference Resistance Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Gain from Illness Personality Structure-Specific Resistance Working Through Resistance in Psychotherapy Id Resistance Superego Resistance Countertransference Resistance