ABSTRACT
In addition, if you do want to get close to someone you’re not getting along with, you may not be willing to pay the price of intimacy. I call that problem Process Resistance. Process Resistance refers to the fact that you might want a positive result-in this case, a loving, joyous relationship-but you’re not willing to pay the price of bringing that result about. Process Resistance and Outcome Resistance will be dierent for dierent kinds of problems, such as depression, anxiety disorders, habits and addictions, or relationship problems. As a result, there are four totally unrelated patterns of Outcome Resistance, and four additional completely dierent patterns of Process Resistance. ese eight patterns represent a new way of thinking about, and reversing, the familiar and vexing problem of therapeutic resistance.
