阻抗，意味着治疗师要改变

Erickson didn't believe there was resistance. If there was resistance, what it really meant was the therapist needed to make changes to become more congruent with the client to listen and to function within the clients metaphors and representational systems and to elicit the values that the client thought were important. 艾瑞克森认为没有阻抗。如果有阻抗，它其实意味着治疗师需要做出改变：变得与来访者更加一致的倾听；变得在来访者内部的隐喻和表象系统发挥作用；变得激发来访者认为重要的价值观。 这也是我为什么喜欢艾瑞克森催眠的原因。艾瑞克森催眠强调找方法，也不用“阻抗”、“防御”，这样归责来访者倾向的描述。