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Originally Posted by CantExplain
Resistance is a useful concept, and I have certainly resisted in my time.
However, Ts are trained to recognise resistance and to overcome it. It's not supposed to be an excuse to blame the patient.
Eg: http://www.sageofasheville.com/pub_d...TERED_VIEW.pdf
As I understand this (perhaps poorly), the patient resists when the therapist tries to go too fast, and especially when she tries to tell the patient what is wrong before he realises it himself.
SPECULATION:
T thinks she has the answer and doesn't listen to what the patient has to say. The patient feels bullied and manipulated into a viewpoint he is not ready for. He resists. |
I don't think that most of what I have read or seen labelled as resistance is from the client - I think of it as the therapist being wrong. Their "interventions" are not always (or even usually) correct and when you tell them, they call it resistance.
The one I have seen used it in relation to my throwing up before going to an appointment and shaking throughout it.