Verb (used with object), : to instigate a quarrel. ,to instigate the people to revolt.    From Dictionary.com. 

The first of these, as Chapter 3 noted, is the notion of instigative therapy, particularly as conceptualized by Kanfer 1979.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planned Short-Term Treatment] Reference

For instance, evident throughout the illustration of goal-oriented extended treatment—and perhaps even more apparent in the briefer variations described earlier—is the influence of what Kanfer 1979 has called the instigative approach to therapy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planned Short-Term Treatment] Reference

Your good points are that you are intelligent, instigative, and thoughtful.    From Wordnik.com.  [qdiosa Diary Entry] Reference

Kanfer contends that an instigative approach can avoid many of the difficulties with generalization that have plagued therapeutic practice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planned Short-Term Treatment] Reference

Although it shares some common ground with the instigative approach discussed earlier, the educational model of clinical practice carries other implications.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planned Short-Term Treatment] Reference

Minuchin also discusses the use of tasks in a manner analogous to the instigative approach, that is, as activities to be carried out between therapeutic sessions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planned Short-Term Treatment] Reference

They will resort to character assassination, name-jacking, then posting instigative posts to allow themselves to be portrayed as martyrs, or just not answer the question.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » ‘Tens of thousands’ turn out to protest Iraq escalation.] Reference

The concept of instigative therapy, as I have already noted, reduces the importance of the therapeutic session and, in its place, highlights the primacy of change in the natural environment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planned Short-Term Treatment] Reference

The instigative perspective is heavily dependent, of course, on a means to carry out such attempts, and the development of realistic and flexible task assignments becomes a necessary ingredient of the approach.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planned Short-Term Treatment] Reference

Without the mechanism (from the gene to the behavior, the complete mapping of chain reactions emerging at last in an entrepreneur, step by step) orderly made explicit and directly tested, those very instigative statistical regularities are not science (but they can be ideology/prejudice, can't they?).    From Wordnik.com.  [Congenitally Entrepreneurial, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

The instigative type is present in three, and its processes give pleasure to all who behold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quaker Hill A Sociological Study] Reference

They also proposed the stoppage of crackdown on journalists and to stop the media instigative campaigns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yemen Observer] Reference

With this business cards color on the hominid americanism of shariah, the plucked realness tourmaline can be instigative.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference

In a broader sense, however, the instigative nature of the viewpoint made me wonder, why should Americans support Israel in the first place?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Michigan Daily] Reference

"I Will Follow You" Bee Jazz casts their rapport in a woozy new light with the crucial help of Daniel Humair, an instigative Swiss-born drummer whose track record stretches back some 50 years.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

He stressed the importance of the Government's recent commitment to take and support necessary instigative measures against PNTL officers accused of violations of the penal and police disciplinary codes, and to take appropriate punitive measures against those found in breach, no matter their rank and even if they have been certified.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spero News] Reference

The instigative strategy of viewing the therapy sessions as secondary to a primary emphasis on planned changes outside the session is a deliberate attempt to bypass the generalization dilemma by focusing directly on the client’s natural world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planned Short-Term Treatment] Reference

These days, however, it's instigative journalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jon Chattman: Maguiring It: Leave Tiger Alone] Reference

(See several excellent instigative reports on Sarah Palin and her political ties by Max Blumenthal at http://maxblumenthal. com/).    From Wordnik.com.  [Frank Schaeffer: Sarah Palin Who's "Palling Around" With Whom?] Reference

instigative emphasis of, 184.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planned Short-Term Treatment] Reference

instigative approach in, 65–66.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planned Short-Term Treatment] Reference

I don't know who these polls talk too ... but being a Repub. .and knowing many ... we are supporting her nomination .... so these 'polls' confuse me ... and even at times appear instigative .. suprised.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Poll: Do Americans want Sotomayor confirmed?] Reference