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Resistance in Psychotherapy - Thomas Abel

Resistance in Psychotherapy

The Eight Forms – Clinical Approaches and Meaning in the Therapeutic Process

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Buch | Softcover
IX, 183 Seiten
2026
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-662-72662-4 (ISBN)
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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.

Thomas Abel is a psychological psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, trauma therapist, therapist in Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) certified by the International Society of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (ISTFP), group analyst, supervisor, and training analyst. He works in his own practice in Berlin and teaches as a lecturer at various Psychotherapeutic and psychoanalytic training and continuing education institutes.

Introduction.- Definition and Classification of Resistance.- Crude Resistance.- Repression Resistance.- Transference Resistance.- Superego Resistance.- Id Resistance.- Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Gain from Illness.- Personality Structure-Specific Resistance.- Countertransference Resistance of the Therapist.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 2.7.2026
Zusatzinfo IX, 183 p. 1 illus.
Verlagsort Berlin
Sprache englisch
Maße 168 x 240 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Klinische Psychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
Schlagworte Compliance in Psychotherapy • Countertransference Resistance • Id Resistance • Personality Structure-Specific Resistance • Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Gain from Illness • Repression Resistance • Superego Resistance • Transference Resistance • Working Through Resistance in Psychotherapy
ISBN-10 3-662-72662-9 / 3662726629
ISBN-13 978-3-662-72662-4 / 9783662726624
Zustand Neuware
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