Distinguishing Resistance from Non-Negligible Binding Force in Dialogue Support: A Proposal for an A Posteriori Confirmation Model Using the EUC Process

In dialogue support fields such as clinical psychology and coaching, cognitive restructuring and reframing are effective techniques. However, their excessive application risks disregarding the client’s unchangeable reality and the structural limits of identity, potentially resulting in benevolent violence. This paper aims to distinguish between Resistance, which is modifiable and rooted in psychological defense, and Non-Negligible Binding Force, which is immutable and essential for maintaining personal integration. Addressing the limitations of pre-intervention diagnostic approaches, this study proposes an a posteriori confirmation model that identifies the nature of obstacles only after a dialogue process has been fully enacted. Drawing on hermeneutic theory and sensemaking theory, the EUC process—Emotional Acceptance, Understanding, and Collaboration—is defined as a filter through which resistance dissolves while binding force becomes more distinct. This model enables practitioners to suspend premature judgment, avoid futile reframing, and ethically reorient support toward adaptation grounded in the client’s irreducible constraints.