Working With Resistance
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Working With Resistance
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Working With Resistance

Working With Resistance

by Martha Stark
Working With Resistance

Working With Resistance

by Martha Stark

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ISBN-13: 9780876680377
Publisher: Aronson, Jason Inc.
Publication date: 04/01/1995
Pages: 336
Product dimensions: 6.42(w) x 9.28(h) x 1.14(d)

Table of Contents

Prefacexi
Acknowledgmentsxvii
Forewordxix
Introductionxxiii
1The Concept of Conflict1
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
2Clinical Interventions17
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
3Understanding and Being Understood51
Moment by Moment
Focusing the Patient's Attention
Clinical Example: A Defense against Painful Affects
4Learning to Contain Internal Conflict75
The Capacity to Experience Internal Conflict
The Containing Statement
Clinical Example: Provision of Containment
5Freud on Resistance91
The Resistance as a Pathway to the Unconscious
Freud's Five Types of Resistance
Three Types of Guilt
Defending against Helplessness
6Resistance as a Failure to Grieve105
Protecting against the Pain of Knowing
Clinical Example: Failure to Grieve
Tolerating the Intolerable
7Grief and Internalization127
The Original Trauma
Toxic and Nontoxic Realities
Work to Be Done
Internalization as a Part of Grieving
Optimal Disillusionment and Transmuting Internalization
Kohut and Winnicott on Internalization
Internal Impoverishment
Seduction and Betrayal?
Self Psychology on Structural Growth
Freud on Internalization and Structure Building
8The Development of Pathology143
Nontraumatic and Traumatic Frustration
Transformation of Need into Capacity
Two Narcissistic Lines of Development
Structural Growth
Development of Deficit and Conflict
Fairbairn on Internalization and Structuralization
Pathogenic Introjects
The Negative Transference
Negative Identifications and Attachments
Absence of Good and Presence of Bad
Positive and Negative Transference
The Idealizing Transference
New Good Object or Old Bad Object?
9The Defense of Affective Nonrelatedness165
Resistance to Developing a Relationship with the Therapist
Clinical Example: A Defense against Being in Relationship
Penetrating the Patient's Defense
The Facilitation Statement
The Work-To-Be-Done Conflict Statement
10The Positive Transference201
Transferential Need
Transforming Infantile Need into Mature Capacity
The Emergence of a Selfobject Transference
The Illusion Statement
The Legitimization Statement
Entitlement
The Disruption of a Selfobject Transference
The Disillusionment Statement
The Integration Statement
The Working-Through Process
11The Negative Transference225
The Changing of Old Bad
One-Person versus Two-Person
Recognizing a Negative Transference
When the Therapist Becomes the Bad Parent
The Dynamic between Patient and Therapist
The Patient's Distortions
The Distortion Statement and the Legitimization Statement
Directing the Patient's Attention Outward
The Modification Statement
The Inverted Modification Statement
Ego-Dystonicity
The Synthetic Function of the Ego
Dovetailing of Insight and Experience
12The Defense of Relentless Entitlement259
Recognizing Relentless Entitlement
Narcissistic Cathexis and Ambivalent Attachment
Protection against Pain
Sadomasochistic Psychopathology
Working through the Defense of Relentless Entitlement
The Masochism Statement
The Sadism (Tit-for-Tat) Statement
Resolution
13The Attainment of Mature Hope281
The Work of the Treatment
Empathic Failures Determined by the Patient's History
Unrealistic or Realistic Hope?
References289
Index293
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