In this original work, Robert Marshall demonstrates numerous approaches to helping hard-to-treat patients. He shows how to facilitate treatment with joining techniques such as mirroring, echoing, and reflection, and how the innovative concept of sequence therapy—a systematic analysis of child, adult, and familial resistance—and countertransference exploration can vastly improve a difficult therapeutic process. Resistant Interactions is a useful resource for clinicians with challenging patients, that is, for every clinician