This book moves away from the traditional views of treatment resistance and assumes that many interacting factors outside of the individual or even the therapy process may be causing the resistance. It examines a number of other factors that may be important in reducing resistance and discusses a number of topics that are often ignored in previous works.

Written for beginning or intermediate level psychotherapists, this book presents information about treatment resistance that is practical, yet based on both empirical and clinical evidence. It makes literally hundreds of suggestions for reducing resistance and also gives hundreds of references for future thought. It is not based on any one theory and as such is useful for therapists of various orientations.