(psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

Psychological resistance, also known as psychological resistance to change, is the phenomenon often encountered in clinical practice in which patients either directly or indirectly exhibit paradoxical opposing behaviors in presumably a clinically initiated push and pull of a change process. Wikipedia

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