Identifying psychological resistances to using logic in cognitive-behavioral therapy for psychosis (CBTp) that limit successful outcomes for patients

Michael Garrett, Anthony O. Ahmed, Christina Athineos, Lisa Cruz, Kelly Harris, Jill Del Pozzo, Victoria Forster and Juan Gallego

Psychosis, 2019, vol. 11, issue 4, 287-297

Abstract: The small to modest effect sizes of cognitive behavioral therapy for psychosis (CBTp) invite the question, do some treatments not succeed because patients mobilize psychological resistances to treatment that limit outcomes? This paper identifies 10 psychological resistances to CBTp, 7 that undermine the use of logic when examining delusional beliefs, and 3 best considered from a psychodynamic viewpoint. Resistances to progress in CBTp defined in the paper include logic evasion, logic monopolizing, logic blinding, logic partitioning, equivocation, reactive reassertion, feeling-percept fusion, mind-guarding, peripheral preoccupation, and external expectancy. When therapists recognize the operation of these defenses, they may aim to diminish their impact on the treatment. Ways the therapist might address these resistances in psychotherapy are suggested.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/17522439.2019.1632377

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