Working with resistance / Martha Stark.

Author/creator Stark, Martha
Format Book
Publication InfoNorthvale, N.J. : Aronson, ©1994.
Descriptionxxiii, 302 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentInhaltsverzeichnis
Subjects
Resistance (Psychoanalysis)
Psychotherapy.
Transference (Psychology)
Grief therapy.
Personality change.
Conflict, Psychological
Defense Mechanisms.
Grief.
Psychoanalytic Therapy--methods.
Treatment Refusal.

Contents Foreword / Sheldon Roth, M.D. -- The Concept of Conflict -- The Conflict between Id Impulse and Ego Defense -- Tension between Yes and No -- An Operational Definition of Resistance -- Illusion and Distortion -- Mental Health and Illness -- The Repetition Compulsion -- Anxiety-Provoking Realities and Anxiety-Assuaging Defenses -- Convergent and Divergent Conflict -- Clinical Interventions -- Situations of Conflict -- The Conflict Statement -- Working with the Patient's Defenses -- Owning of Responsibility and Moving On -- The Damaged-for-Life Statement -- The Compensation Statement -- The Entitlement Statement -- Respecting the Patient's Internal Experience -- Supporting the Patient's Defense -- The Defense-against-Affects Statement -- The Structure of the Conflict Statement -- The Path-of-Least-Resistance Statement -- The Price-Paid Conflict Statement -- Confrontation and Paradox -- Titration of Anxiety -- Reconnecting Conflicting Elements -- Understanding and Being Understood -- Moment by Moment -- Focusing the Patient's Attention -- Clinical Example: A Defense against Painful Affects -- Learning to Contain Internal Conflict -- The Capacity to Experience Internal Conflict -- The Containing Statement -- Clinical Example: Provision of Containment -- Freud on Resistance -- The Resistance as a Pathway to the Unconscious -- Freud's Five Types of Resistance -- Three Types of Guilt -- Defending against Helplessness -- Resistance as a Failure to Grieve -- Protecting against the Pain of Knowing -- Clinical Example: Failure to Grieve.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 289-291) and index.
Other formsAlso issued online.
Issued in other formOnline version: Stark, Martha. Working with resistance. Northvale, N.J. : Aronson, c1994
LCCN 93001401
ISBN0876680376 (hardcover)
ISBN9780876680377 (hardcover)

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Joyner General Stacks RC489.R49 S73 1994 ✔ Available Place Hold