Originally published: c1994.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-291) and index.

Foreword / Sheldon Roth, M.D. -- The Concept of Conflict -- The Conflict between Id Impulse and Ego Defense -- Tension between Yes and No -- An Operational Definition of Resistance -- Illusion and Distortion -- Mental Health and Illness -- The Repetition Compulsion -- Anxiety-Provoking Realities and Anxiety-Assuaging Defenses -- Convergent and Divergent Conflict -- Clinical Interventions -- Situations of Conflict -- The Conflict Statement -- Working with the Patient's Defenses -- Owning of Responsibility and Moving On -- The Damaged-for-Life Statement -- The Compensation Statement -- The Entitlement Statement -- Respecting the Patient's Internal Experience -- Supporting the Patient's Defense -- The Defense-against-Affects Statement -- The Structure of the Conflict Statement -- The Path-of-Least-Resistance Statement -- The Price-Paid Conflict Statement -- Confrontation and Paradox -- Titration of Anxiety -- Reconnecting Conflicting Elements -- Understanding and Being Understood -- Moment by Moment -- Focusing the Patient's Attention -- Clinical Example: A Defense against Painful Affects -- Learning to Contain Internal Conflict -- The Capacity to Experience Internal Conflict -- The Containing Statement -- Clinical Example: Provision of Containment -- Freud on Resistance -- The Resistance as a Pathway to the Unconscious -- Freud's Five Types of Resistance -- Three Types of Guilt -- Defending against Helplessness -- Resistance as a Failure to Grieve -- Protecting against the Pain of Knowing -- Clinical Example: Failure to Grieve.