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Defense

31 techniques · 5 approaches
Gestalt
Working with Resistance through Curiosity
Working with Resistance through Curiosity
Instead of overcoming resistance — curiosity toward it. "Resistance is information, it is a defense." The therapist comes with interest: "Wh…
ISTDP
Challenge to Defenses
Challenge to Defenses
A respectful but direct invitation to see a defense, recognize its cost, and choose whether to keep using it.
ISTDP
Crystallization of Transference Resistance
Crystallization of Transference Resistance
Making the resistance visible as it appears in the relationship with the therapist so it can no longer remain vague or hidden.
ISTDP
Defense Restructuring
Defense Restructuring
A sequence for making defenses conscious, showing their cost, and helping the client replace automatic avoidance with emotional awareness.
ISTDP
Head-On Collision (HOC)
Head-On Collision (HOC)
A direct confrontation between the client's wish for help and the resistance that blocks help, used only when alliance and anxiety tolerance…
ISTDP
Pressure
Pressure
Direct, persistent focus on the client's avoided feeling. Pressure invites emotional contact and prevents the session from staying in intell…
ISTDP
Trial Therapy
Trial Therapy
The extended diagnostic-treatment session in which the therapist tests the client's response to pressure, anxiety regulation, and defense wo…
ISTDP
Triangle of Conflict
Triangle of Conflict
The core map of ISTDP: feeling activates anxiety; anxiety activates defense; defense blocks feeling and maintains symptoms.
Längle
Method of Dealing with Aggression
Method of Dealing with Aggression
Aggression in existential analysis is seen not as pathology but as a reaction to a threat to one of the fundamental motivations. The therapi…
Psychoanalysis
Acting Out Analysis
Acting Out Analysis
Acting Out Analysis is a classical psychoanalytic technique for making unconscious conflict, defense, wish, fear, and repetition more availa…
Psychoanalysis
Analytic Frame / Setting
Analytic Frame / Setting
Analytic Frame / Setting is a classical psychoanalytic technique for making unconscious conflict, defense, wish, fear, and repetition more a…
Psychoanalysis
Clarification
Clarification
Clarification is a classical psychoanalytic technique for making unconscious conflict, defense, wish, fear, and repetition more available fo…
Psychoanalysis
Confrontation
Confrontation
Confrontation is a classical psychoanalytic technique for making unconscious conflict, defense, wish, fear, and repetition more available fo…
Psychoanalysis
Countertransference Analysis
Countertransference Analysis
Countertransference Analysis is a classical psychoanalytic technique for making unconscious conflict, defense, wish, fear, and repetition mo…
Psychoanalysis
Defense Mechanism Analysis
Defense Mechanism Analysis
Defense Mechanism Analysis is a classical psychoanalytic technique for making unconscious conflict, defense, wish, fear, and repetition more…
Psychoanalysis
Dream Interpretation
Dream Interpretation
Dream Interpretation is a classical psychoanalytic technique for making unconscious conflict, defense, wish, fear, and repetition more avail…
Psychoanalysis
Evenly Suspended Attention
Evenly Suspended Attention
Evenly Suspended Attention is a classical psychoanalytic technique for making unconscious conflict, defense, wish, fear, and repetition more…
Psychoanalysis
Free Association
Free Association
Free Association is a classical psychoanalytic technique for making unconscious conflict, defense, wish, fear, and repetition more available…
Psychoanalysis
Genetic Interpretation
Genetic Interpretation
Genetic Interpretation is a classical psychoanalytic technique for making unconscious conflict, defense, wish, fear, and repetition more ava…
Psychoanalysis
Interpretation
Interpretation
Interpretation is a classical psychoanalytic technique for making unconscious conflict, defense, wish, fear, and repetition more available f…
Psychoanalysis
Parapraxis Analysis
Parapraxis Analysis
Parapraxis Analysis is a classical psychoanalytic technique for making unconscious conflict, defense, wish, fear, and repetition more availa…
Psychoanalysis
Reconstruction
Reconstruction
Reconstruction is a classical psychoanalytic technique for making unconscious conflict, defense, wish, fear, and repetition more available f…
Psychoanalysis
Repetition Compulsion Analysis
Repetition Compulsion Analysis
Repetition Compulsion Analysis is a classical psychoanalytic technique for making unconscious conflict, defense, wish, fear, and repetition …
Psychoanalysis
Resistance Analysis
Resistance Analysis
Resistance Analysis is a classical psychoanalytic technique for making unconscious conflict, defense, wish, fear, and repetition more availa…
Psychoanalysis
Screen Memory Analysis
Screen Memory Analysis
Screen Memory Analysis is a classical psychoanalytic technique for making unconscious conflict, defense, wish, fear, and repetition more ava…
Psychoanalysis
Sublimation
Sublimation
Sublimation is a classical psychoanalytic technique for making unconscious conflict, defense, wish, fear, and repetition more available for …
Psychoanalysis
Termination Work
Termination Work
Termination Work is a classical psychoanalytic technique for making unconscious conflict, defense, wish, fear, and repetition more available…
Psychoanalysis
Transference Analysis
Transference Analysis
Transference Analysis is a classical psychoanalytic technique for making unconscious conflict, defense, wish, fear, and repetition more avai…
Psychoanalysis
Working Through
Working Through
Working Through is a classical psychoanalytic technique for making unconscious conflict, defense, wish, fear, and repetition more available …
STPP
Head-On Collision
Head-On Collision
A direct confrontation with the contradiction between the client's wish to change and the defenses that maintain the problem; used more mode…
STPP
Triangle of Conflict
Triangle of Conflict
Malan's map of internal conflict: wish or feeling activates anxiety, anxiety activates defense, and defense blocks the feeling while maintai…
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