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- Impasses can occur as a result of disagreement between the therapist and client, unacknowledged issues within therapy, or stagnation in therapy. When an impasse first occurs, therapy stops making progress. A client may previously have been feeling better or exploring previously unexplored issues, but an impasse makes further exploration difficult.
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When therapy goes wrong, it’s typically because we’ve entered our clients’ trances with them, joining them in their myopic misery. In this mutually reinforcing state, neither client nor therapist can see beyond the small, cramped space of the stalled interaction.
for therapeutic impasse in long-term psychotherapy in which the work can become repetitive or with limited gains over time. The current paper provides five transtheoretical principles to increase the impetus in long-term therapy. The five principles include: planful spontaneity, habitual creativity, pushing the limits of the therapeu-
Problematic interactional patterns between client and therapist involve several phenomena, such as diferent forms of ruptures, enactments, impasses, and stalemates. This study explores psycho-dynamic therapists’ experiences and understanding of deadlock in the psychotherapy process.
- Andrzej Werbart, Emma Gråke, Fanny Klingborg
- 2020
Discusses the therapeutic impasse as but one of the possible interruptions of therapeutic flow. Impasses may occur when the patient's progress in one area causes symptoms in another. Impasses may also occur because of problems from the therapist's side of the partnership.
- Donald L Nathanson
- 1992
Oct 17, 2022 · Psychotherapeutic roadblocks, or impasses, are often the result of complex intersubjective processes that arise in the therapeutic dyad and can be intimately related to both the patient and therapist’s core dilemmas and conflicts (Etchegoyen, 1991).
Without blame and with compassion for inevitable difficulties, she describes how impasses arise when these partnerships become rigid, operate outside of conscious awareness, or when the vulnerabilities and defenses of the patient and the therapist intersect in problematic ways.
