Within the depth-psychology corpus, ‘resources’ names a cluster of capacities, relationships, and environmental supports that enable psychological regulation, integration, and growth. The term is most systematically developed in the somatic and trauma traditions, particularly in the work of Pat Ogden and Deb Dana, where it receives a technical precision rarely found in classical analytic literature. Ogden’s sensorimotor framework distinguishes internal resources—capacities that reside within the individual, including reflective ability, boundary-setting, creativity, and somatic awareness—from external resources that exist in the environment, including social networks, institutions, and material supports. These two orders are held to be interdependent: the capacity to access external resources is itself grounded in internal ones. A further and clinically vital distinction separates survival resources—adaptive behaviors once necessary under conditions of danger—from creative resources, which represent capacities available in safety. Crucially, the concept of missing resources introduces a developmental and reparative dimension: what was never acquired or was interrupted by trauma can be identified, planned for, and cultivated. Dana’s polyvagal reading adds the concept of interactive resources, foregrounding co-regulation and the nervous system’s role in making or foreclosing access to connection. Across these authors, resources function not merely as coping tools but as the substrate of integration itself.