THE INTERACTIVE PRODUCTION OF RESISTANCE

Already the first version of the resistance concept as a force of the patient against which Freud had to summon psychic work names an intera ctive event. The conversational-analytic examination of therapeutic di alogs may bring to light that resistances are not just embedded in the interpersonal relationship of patient and psychotherapist, but are pr oduced with verbal and non-verbal means with which patient and psychot herapist handle their interactions. This is described with a micro ana lysis of the therapeutic interaction in videographed sequences from an analytic oriented short therapy of a patient with phobic and compulsi ve symptoms.