Sager cautioned therapist that countertransference often occurs in the triangular of the therapist and two patients, in marital treatment. Such countertransference reaction take the form of becoming competitive or resorting to “male chauvinistic”.”feminist”,or “anti-male” thinking. He cautions to “check one’s value system constantly so that it is not imposed upon the couple” (Sager 1976,p.207)

Resistance
The concept of resistance describes all oppositional forces within the therapeutic situation that hinder progress in treatment (Greenson 1965). Resistance may be conscious, preconscious, or unconscious. Any human behavior can be used as a resistance in treatment, such behaviors include emotional expressions, attitudes, ideas, impulses, thought, fantasies, or actions. Object relations psychotherapists see the motive for the resistance as reluctance on the part of the patient to allow a painful relationship into awareness. The patient therefore avoids the return of the repressed bad object relations and the attendant pain of the earlier experiences with the bad object (Guntrip 1969, scharff and Scharff 1987). In family and marital therapy, resistance exhibits itself by the collusive avoiding conflictual topics, scapegoating, becoming depressed to avoid expression of anger, refusing to consider one’s own role in dysfunctional interactions, seeking individual sessions or individual treatment , keeping secrets, threatening to leave treatment or changing therapist, and acting-out. All of these forms of resistance allow the patient to avoid pain, including the anxiety about remembering previous painful experiences.
Sonne, Speck, and Jungress (1986) described one form of resistance to family therapy called the “absent member maneuver in family therapy”. Family members representing one side of the family conflict can absent themselves from family sessions are collusive behavior to conceal and avoid family conflict. That resistance can only be successfully overcome once all family members are encouraged to attend the sessions and express their viewpoints.

Socially Shared Psychopathology
The concept of socially concept psychopathology is the end and result of a number of interpersonal psychological mechanisms such as projective identification and delineation. Through these mechanism, a person delineates part of his psychopathological tendencies and imparts it to another intimate member of his social group, particularly his family. The other person invites and receives this psychopathology and claims ownership of the projected part.