This paper attempts to outline various resistances to ego therapy according to their source, target and clinical manifestations. Resistance is defined as an interference with the process of observing and delineating the subself system. Twelve different forms of resistance are discussed and most of them are illustrated with brief protocols taken from the writer's current practice of ego therapy.
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