Reaching Through Resistance: Advanced Psychotherapy Techniques

by Allan Abbass

About half of all psychotherapy clients have little to no response or can even worsen in treatment. Why? They unknowingly use treatment-defeating behaviors, or resistances, that prevent emotional closeness and successful collaboration with the therapist.

Reaching through Resistance will help you

-Detect treatment resistance from the first client contact
-Understand the emotional factors behind resistance
-Discern various degrees and forms of resistance
-Recognize signs of anxiety in the body
-Activate and monitor unprocessed, unconscious impulses and feelings
turn a client against his/her long-held defeating behaviors
-Regulate intense anxiety when emotions are activated
-Mobilize the client's unconscious wish to become well recognize signs
of a powerful healing the unconscious therapeutic alliance

By detecting avoidance patterns and using specific interventions developed to handle them, you can empower a collaborative, vigorous treatment alliance with your client.

Genres: Psychology, Psychoanalysis

412 pages, Paperback

First published May 15, 2015

Reviews

[Bahare · Rating 5 out of 5]

این کتاب از منابع اصلی درمان‌درمانی با رویکرد روان‌پویشی کوتاه مدت هست که نمیشه دست ازش کشید.

[Jude St. Francis · Rating 5 out of 5]

عالی

[Na Tou · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great read for ISTDP lovers. I particularly found helpful the chapters for low resistant, moderately resistant and high resistant clients. Abbass describes each category and includes detailed transcripts. He explains his reasoning for choosing a particular method and what he sees in his clients every second of that transcript. This micro analysis is very revealing and great for therapists attempting to learn his style.

[Joanna · Rating 5 out of 5]

Explains the methods very well. Clinical transcripts are so detailed that it is almost as good as sitting in the sessions with Abbass. I learned alot reading this and had breakthroughs with some patients when I applied what I learned.

[Natalie]

Michelle's jam!

[Mariana Elizondo · Rating 3 out of 5]

No es mi tipo de libro, interesantes aportes técnicos.

[Nguyễn Việt Hà · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book. Perfectly describe different reactions of mental patients and ways to help them out.

[Jonathan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very good. Highlights difficult patients and challenges better than 'co-creating change' (though both are worth the time if you're keen).