PEP | Article - Counterresistance: The Unexplored Continent of Therapeutic Impasse: Resolving Counterresistances in Psychotherapy, Strean, Herbert F. New York: BrunnerlMazel, 1993, 258 pages, $29.95.

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Abstract

In this book, Dr. Strean illuminates an aspect of the hidden continent of therapeutic impasse induced by a therapist's unexamined reactions to a patient's conflictual material, which he calls counter-resistance.

This book is the mirror image and extension of Strean's 1990 work, Resolving Resistances in Psychotherapy. Both volumes use the same format, and in both Strean develops Boesky's (1990) belief that the patient's resistance is a mutual creation of the therapist and the patient. Through a plethora of examples illustrating

PEP | Article - Counterresistance: The Unexplored Continent of Therapeutic Impasse: Resolving Counterresistances in Psychotherapy, Strean, Herbert F. New York: BrunnerlMazel, 1993, 258 pages, $29.95. - Weintraub, Cecily G.