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Resistance

Psychodynamic and Behavioral Approaches

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Editors:
  1. Paul L. Wachtel

    1. Department of Psychology, City College of the City University of New York, New York, USA

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Psychodynamic Approaches

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Dynamic Psychotherapy and Its Frustrations

      • Michael Franz Basch
      Pages 3-23

    3. Resistance as Process

      • Herbert J. Schlesinger
      Pages 25-44

    4. Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Resistance

      • Paul A. Dewald
      Pages 45-68

    5. Levels of Resistance in the Psychotherapeutic Process

      • Sidney J. Blatt, H. Shmuel Erlich
      Pages 69-91

  3. Behavioral Approaches

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93
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    2. Resistance and Clinical Behavior Therapy

      • Marvin R. Goldfried
      Pages 95-113

    3. Resistance or Rationalization?

      • Arnold A. Lazarus, Allen Fay
      Pages 115-132

    4. Resistance from a Cognitive-Behavioral Perspective

      • Donald Meichenbaum, J. Barnard Gilmore
      Pages 133-156

    5. The Behavior-Analytic Approach

      • Ira Daniel Turkat, Victor Meyer
      Pages 157-184

  4. Commentaries by the Authors

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 185-185
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    2. Behavioral and Psychodynamic Psychotherapies

      • Michael Franz Basch
      Pages 187-196

    3. A Critique of the Concepts of Resistance in Behavior Therapy

      • Sidney J. Blatt, H. Shmuel Erlich
      Pages 197-203

    4. A Psychoanalytic Critique of the Behavioral Contributions

      • Paul A. Dewald
      Pages 205-217

    5. Psychoanalytic Resistance and Behavioral Nonresponsiveness

      • Allen Fay, Arnold A. Lazarus
      Pages 219-231

    6. A Perspective on the Dynamic Contributions

      • J. Barnard Gilmore, Donald Meichenbaum
      Pages 233-235

    7. Thoughts on the Resistance Chapters

      • Marvin R. Goldfried
      Pages 237-243

    8. Behaviorists, Cognitive Behaviorists, and Behavior-Analytic Writers

      • Herbert J. Schlesinger
      Pages 245-250

    9. Behavior-Analytic Considerations of Alternative Clinical Approaches

      • Ira Daniel Turkat
      Pages 251-257
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About this book

RESISTANCE AND THE PROCESS OF THERAPEUTIC CHANGE Paul L. Wachtel Psychotherapy, whether practiced from a psychodynamic or a behavioral point of view,! is rarely as straightforward as textbooks and case reports usually seem to imply. More often the work proceeds in fits and starts (and often does not seem to be proceeding at all, but rather unraveling or moving backward). The "typical" case is in fact quite atypical. Almost all cases present substantial difficulties for which the therapist feels, at least some of the time, quite unprepared. Practicing psychotherapy is a difficult-if also rewarding-way to earn a living. It is no profession for the individual who likes certainty, predictability, or a fairly constant sense that one knows what one is doing. There are few professions in which feeling stupid or stymied is as likely to be a part of one's ordinary professional day, even for those at the pinnacle of the field. Indeed, I would be loath to refer a patient to any therapist who declared that he almost always felt effective and clear about what was going on. Such a feeling can be maintained, I believe, only by an inordinate amount of bravado and lack of critical self-reflection. But the therapist trying to get some ideas about how to work with 1 These are, of course, not the only two points of view in psychotherapy; nor do I believe they are the only two of value.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Psychology, City College of the City University of New York, New York, USA

    Paul L. Wachtel

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Resistance

  • Book Subtitle: Psychodynamic and Behavioral Approaches

  • Editors: Paul L. Wachtel

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2163-5

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1982

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-40769-7Published: 01 March 1982

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-2165-9Published: 20 June 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-2163-5Published: 29 June 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 267

  • Topics: Psychotherapy and Counseling, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis

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