A Primer on Working with Resistance

By Martha Stark

Book Overview

"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 people come to us asking for help in changing, and then do their level best to keep change from happening... This is a work which is at once a practical guide and a theoretical tour de force. Readers who journey in this slim volume with Dr. Stark will return from their travels to their practice much educated, having encountered new ideas and old ones in new forms, better able to face the everyday travails of psychotherapy." -David E. Scharff, M.D. A Jason Aronson Book

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568210930
• ISBN13: 9781568210933
• Release Date: March 1994
• Publisher: Jason Aronson
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Look no further-this book is the clinician's "pearl of great price"!

As others have aptly noted, Dr. Stark's writing is exemplary for its clarity. Her prose style is lucid and user-friendly. Her own brilliance notwithstanding, her explanations are couched in direct, plain language. Her authorial tone is unfailingly unpretentious and respectful- to the reader, and also to the patient- about whom and for whose benefit she has written. The book consists of three logically delineated parts. In...

A clear, consise explanation of the theraputic relationship

Dr. Stark weaves together the viewpoints of many different schools of theraputic thought while bringing her own facinating insights to bear in this wonderful book. Other authors in this field could take a lesson from the clarity of her prose. The best book I have ever read on the subject. Anyone seeking to better understand the theraputic relationship should read this book.