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Reaching Through Resistance: Advanced Psychotherapy Techniques

by Allan, MD Abbass

Working with resistance in psychotherapy

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Working with resistance in psychotherapy

Allan Abbass’s guide centers on treatment resistance as a barrier to emotional closeness and collaboration between client and therapist. It organizes the subject around recognizing avoidance and resistance, attending to bodily signs of anxiety, and working with feelings and impulses that have not been processed. The description also points to practical interventions for responding when difficult emotions are activated and for strengthening the therapeutic alliance. Together, these topics frame resistance not simply as an obstacle to identify, but as a clinical process the therapist can monitor and address within treatment.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Psychotherapists seeking material on recognizing and responding to treatment resistance.
  • Readers interested in anxiety, avoidance, and the therapeutic alliance in clinical work.

Themes

PsychotherapyTreatment resistance and avoidanceAnxiety and unprocessed feelingsTherapeutic alliance

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Book overview

About half of all psychotherapy clients have little to no response or can even worsen in treatment. Why? They unknowingly use treatment-defeating behaviors, or resistances, that prevent emotional closeness and successful collaboration with the therapist.

Reaching through Resistance will help you

detect treatment resistance from the first client contact

understand the emotional factors behind resistance

discern various degrees and forms of resistance

recognize signs of anxiety in the body

activate and monitor unprocessed, unconscious impulses and feelings

turn a client against his/her long-held defeating behaviors

regulate intense anxiety when emotions are activated

mobilize the client's unconscious wish to become well

recognize signs of a powerful healing force: the unconscious therapeutic alliance

By detecting avoidance patterns and using specific interventions developed to handle them, you can empower a collaborative, vigorous treatment alliance with yo

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