To many, the word resistance has a predominantly political flavour. It suggests images of armed guerrilla fighters who risk their lives for the liberation of their people and country. Or of citizens united in the fight against injustice as they march with placards while singing songs of protest. To us who still live in the echoes of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is also likely to turn our thoughts to biological expressions of resistance like the host-virus arms race between host immunity and viral mutation. Perhaps it also leads us to the avenues of physics and the resistive forces present whenever the motion of a body meets forces opposite to it, such as the friction between the brake pads and the wheel, which slows the car to a halt before it slams into the child who runs onto the street. And finally, we psychologists, in particular, are likely taken to the world of psychoanalysis where psychological resistance famously occurs in patients who mutter, ‘Whoever that woman in my dream is, it is not my mother!’ (see Freud, 1925).