Research Catalog

Title

Dealing with resistance in psychotherapy / Althea J. Horner.

Author

Horner, Althea J.

Publication

Lanham : Jason Aronson, c2005.

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Details

Description

xxiii, 189 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"This book is written for the professional psychotherapist who may be puzzled as to why work with a particular patient or client is going nowhere. It brings to the therapist's attention a wide variety of these defenses, these resistances, so that they can be addressed and resolved."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Defense Mechanisms
• Professional-Patient Relations
• Psychotherapist and patient
• Psychotherapy
• Psychotherapy
• Resistance (Psychoanalysis)
• Transference (Psychology)
• Transference, Psychology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-177) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The core relationship problem as resistance -- Constructing the developmental hypothesis -- Countertransference resistance and therapeutic impasse -- Transference resistances of the "good boy" and the "good girl" -- The sexualization of the core relationship problem as resistance -- The wish for power as resistance -- Envy as resistance -- The "constructed self" as resistance -- The need to understand as resistance -- Common attitudes as sources of resistance -- Motives as resistance -- Symptoms as resistance -- Interpretation of transference resistance in brief psychotherapy.

ISBN

0765700778 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2005011188

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library