Defense Mechanisms in the Counseling Process 1st Edition by Arthur J. Clark (Author)

`[The client material]… stimulated thought and reflection… Clark presented a large number of very tricky case studies. He illustrated all manner of different and exciting ways of responding to clients who find it difficult to engage with the process of counselling. Furthermore, this is done in the framework of a model of counseling which integrates humanistic, psychodynamic, and cognitive-behavioral theories in a most exciting and convincing way. In the end, I learned quite a lot and pondered the case histories days later′ –Counselling, The Journal of the British Association for Counselling.

The understanding of defense mechanisms is vital to counselors and psychotherapists, particularly