ABSTRACT
I have introduced my ambition in Chapter four : to distinguish between various clinical phenomena, usually subsumed under the umbrella term resistance. Freud (1900a) emphasized the wide reach of this concept: “whatever interrupts the progress of the analytic work is a resistance” (p. 517). In this broadest sense, resistance remains a foundation concept in psychoanalysis and psychodynamic group therapy (Rosenthal, 1994).
