In order to explore a patient's resistance and refusal to grieve, Stark (psychoanalysis, Harvard Medical School) draws on concepts from classical psychoanalysis, object relations theory, and self-psyc
"Martha Stark's primer on resistance is a unique book. It takes as the heart of the clinical problem the patient's reluctance to change, that ubiquitous and paradoxical phenomenon of our work in which
How do we position ourselves in relation to our patients? Do we participate as neutral object, as empathetic self-object, or as authentic subject? Do we strive to enhance the patient's knowledge, to p
