Contents The Move Toward Responsibility: Psychotherapy and the Abrasive Patient
Abrasiveness: Descriptive and Dynamic Issues
Treating the Abrasive Client With Rational-Emotive Therapy (RET)
The Defeating Patient and Reciprocal Abrasion
Bread From Stones
Rocks and Glaciers (and Psychosis)
Reflections on Being Abrasive: Two Unusual Cases
Abrasion: Wearing Down and Transformation
The Care and Feeding of Abrasiveness
A Malicious Sense of Survival
Primitive Object-Relations and Impaired Structuralization in the Abrasive Patient
A Session With Jack: A Demonstration of Mirroring by Ego-Syntonic Joining
Comment
Tradition and Dogma in the Experience of Abrasion