ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the general principles related to handling these truly inevitable conscious system resistances and offer some fresh perspectives on this vast topic – view-points that have emerged mainly through self-processing therapy itself. The ability of the self-processing teacher to step back and incisively observe a self-processing exercise and to identify the main resistances that obstruct its successful completion is more than a simple matter of knowing the template of the process. The students’ resistances are also motivated by needs to preserve the instructor unconsciously as an idealized, god-like figure – a powerful factor in all manner of resistances. The conscious system has an endless repertoire of resistances. The valid identification of resistances is facilitated for the self-processing teacher through his or her non-involvement in the generation of encoded material and by means of adhering to the well-defined structure of the self-processing exercise.
