[Interactive production of resistance].

Abstract

Already the first version of the resistance concept as a force of the paint against which Freud had to summon psychic work names an interactive event. The conversational-analytic examination of therapeutic dialogs may bring to light that resistances are not just embedded in the interpersonal relationship of patient and psychotherapist, but are produced with verbal and non-verbal means with which patient and psychotherapist handle their interactions. This is described with a micro analysis of the therapeutic interaction in videographed sequences from an analytic oriented short therapy of a patient with phobic and compulsive symptoms.