Psychological Problems of Learning Resistance

The article refers to the phenomenon of learning resistance and assumes that individual defense mechanisms have much influence upon its development. Defense mechanisms are considered as a set of actions aimed to the reduction or elimination of any change that threatens the integrity and stability of biopsychic individual. The author's method of defense mechanisms diagnostics is described, along with the field of this method application: defense mechanisms diagnostics, individual profiles for making hypotheses, hypotheses verification in a clinical interview and the following work with identified defenses involved in the learning resistance development.