title: Legal defense as ego defense: a special form of resistance to the therapeutic process.
abstract: Forensic psychiatric concerns may be invoked defensively by the trainee as a resistance to the therapeutic process. The author briefly reviews this issue and its clinical manifestations, recognition, and supervisory management.
mesh_terms: D003134:Commitment of Persons with Psychiatric Disorders; D003219:Confidentiality; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D004532:Ego; D005260:Female; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D008297:Male; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000193:education*; D013663:Teaching