Resistance is a continuous part of therapy. I don't know much about it, but i'm thinking it is something that really never goes away completely.

I just think that therapy is uncomfortable for most people. That being the case, clients are going to want to gravitate towards the known and predicatable, rather than the unknown and unpredicatable.

Your therapist could likely be contributing to your resistance by engaging in your pattern, or a re-enactment...which is another reason why it's so important for a therapist to do his/her own work!

I do wonder if a therapist should confront it in cases where it really obstructs the therapy. My therapist, i think, recently confronted my resistance, and things have gotten much better, in terms of work, since that time.

IDK, but i think the skill and/or unconscious motivations of the therapist has a lot to with the degree in which your resistances hold you back.

What did i just say? never mind.

I almost forgot to mention=it's part of the therapy, rather than something to 'make go away'. if you know what i mean....