Ow ow ow Melbadaze!

The question was, can resistance in therapy be based on anything other than someone's wish for attention / pity / a caretaker. The question was never whether a therapist drags someone in off the street & makes them a victim. (Good grief!)

If the therapeutic "process" is painful & difficult for some people (because of attachment issues, or a million other becauses), but not painful or difficult for you, well goody for you. You're glad, I am glad for you.

But... have a heart will ya? For those who do have that pain, those difficulties. there are zillions of clients out there like that.

People who find the process painful and difficult are not going to their deaths living an unexamined life; on the contrary they're committed to that examination, even if it means fighting an uphill battle every session. If I sound a ilttle soapbox-y, well maybe so.