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5 pages in length. Rosenthal (1994) cites resistance as a "strange and disturbing phenomenon [that] is inevitably encountered by all who work in the field of psychotherapy for reparative change and the alleviation of pain and suffering" (p. 5) manifesting in a force that emerges to "encounter, block, and vitiate the therapeutic endeavors" (p. 5). Author of Resolving Resistance in Group Psychotherapy, Rosenthal (1994) implies how one of the most challenging aspects of the counselor/client relationship is initially getting the individuals into the office. No additional sources cited.
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change and the alleviation of pain and suffering" (p. 5) manifesting in a force that emerges to "encounter, block, and vitiate the therapeutic endeavors" (p. 5). Author of Resolving
Resistance in Group Psychotherapy, Rosenthal (1994) implies how one of the most challenging aspects of the counselor/client relationship is initially getting the individuals into the office, inasmuch as the engagement
process inherently segues into resistance without the benefit of therapeutic alliance. A particularly good example of this resistance to engagement can be found when clients cancel or completely skip
their first meeting because they are wholly unable to bring themselves to address the painful issues surrounding their problems. As tempted as some counselors might be to concede to
the clients repeated cancellations, to do so is to immediately surrender control as the professional and fail to gain the all-important component of trust; when the quest to establish therapeutic
alliance deals with an entire family where several members refuse to attend sessions, too many counselors assume the alienated attitude of there are enough people who welcome help to have
to chase after those who will not - for whatever reason - relinquish their resistant tendencies. Rosenthal (1994) applies ego psychology to this
situation by drawing from Freud contention of how there is little good in the world that arises naturally and without coercion of one form or another, of one person to
another. Claiming mans existence is rooted in aggression, Freud based all of his individual concepts of the mind to social theory; his three distinct components of the human ego
- the id, super-ego and the outside world - makes it significantly more understandable how external forces compel people to act upon their ego and ultimately become one with it.
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