Psychological resistance

The term resistance has different meanings in psychology. Depending on the school to use it for different phenomena and explains it in different ways:

The resistance is a common phenomenon, which is usually in everyday life and in psychotherapy classical orientation occurs ( except Systemic therapy). Dealing with the resistance will vary depending on the school recommended.

In some psychotherapy directions resistance and analogous phenomena is respected by the therapist, that is, they leave the patient's decision, in which direction they want to go, because not every proposed route is from therapists point of view also the meaningful for the patient. In psychoanalysis is working towards the resolution of resistance.

As a phenomenon of resistance is of classical psychoanalysis everything considered ( actions and statements of the analysand ), which opposes its access to the unconscious. The patient will be subject to a popular misconception, according to but not compelled to accept such an assumption on the part of psychoanalytic theory without insight into the reasons. Rather, the treatment consists in this respect it consciously together to look further in the direction in which a resistance seems to stir. Behind these often emotionally significant defense - which is usually justified by seemingly reasonable -sounding arguments - are suspected unconscious desires that were repressed. Their re - awareness is a concern of psychoanalytic treatment, because they are, according to the theory in a causal relationship with the basic problem of the patient. (For details on the psychoanalytic technique in Articles Free association and dream interpretation. )