ABSTRACT
The terminal stage, even more than the transference stage, usually arrives more or less insidiously. When established it is a stage characterised by two important processes. A number of alternative classifications for the phenomena of resistance have been vouchsafed. There is the clinical classification under which resistances are divided into obvious resistances, such as those of lateness, on the part of the patient, lag in getting to the couch, pauses and evasions, rejections of the analyst’s remarks and so on, and unobtrusive resistances. Occasionally major modifications have to be deliberately accepted and instituted, particularly when there are a large number of cases requiring attention and when the authorities in charge of hospitals and clinics are concerned to reduce their waiting lists and make room for other urgent sufferers.
