Abstract
Patients bring certain expectations to psychotherapy. These unvoiced, often unconscious, reservations affect the transference relationship and give rise to resistances. Such resistances may take the form of self-containment through withdrawl, reflecting a fear of exposure or reluctance to change. Fear of self-disclosure can take the form of anticipatory projections of a paranoid type, and intellectualized struggle of wills, denying the legitimacy of the therapist, and extreme constriction lest the patient "destroy" the therapist by his anger. Reluctance to change expresses itself through impermeability of inner and outer ego boundaries. Essentially, the patient avoids growth either through narcissistic identification with the therapist, or by submitting to the dictates of a stern superego that equates increased freedom and spontaneity with the "bad" me.
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