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The author describes an approach to therapy which is based on the observation that whenever persons are badly treated, they resist. Case illustrations are given in which individuals seeking therapy had been subjected to violence and oppression.
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Wade, A. Small Acts of Living: Everyday Resistance to Violence and Other Forms of Oppression. Contemporary Family Therapy 19, 23–39 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026154215299
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