ABSTRACT

James Bugental has a very full and clear discussion of resistance. He remarks on how it can reveal not only what the person is doing in the session, but how they relate to the outside world. And in order to track a particular type of resistance, he advocates tagging it. Tagging the resistance is a matter of again and again pointing to the resistive pattern as it is occurring. Resistance is anti-authenticity. One of the most important aspects of resistance is the way author can let his catastrophic expectations get in the way of the work. For example there are different kinds of resistance namely Repression resistance, Secondary gain resistance, Superego resistance, Repetition-compulsion resistance, Transference resistance. Superego resistance comes out in the client's unconscious need for punishment or rejection. The self in Mahrer's quote here means the unregenerate neurotic self, the self which does not want to change, the unexamined operating potentials.