Signs of Defensive Control Locate Conflicted Topics in Discourse

Horowitz, Mardi J.; Milbrath, Constance; Stinson, Charles

doi:10.1001/archpsyc.1995.03950240058011

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“…A group of reviewing clinicians decided that this session was exemplary in containing in clear form a prototype of her key conflicts. Furthermore, Session 12 has two 5-min segments showing signs of defensive control that are seen as being key moments (Horowitz, Milbrath, & Stinson, 1995). To allow a better understanding, I summarize the first 11 sessions as follows: The patient was describing the good properties of her late husband James throughout the first 10 sessions.…”

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Emotion–abstraction patterns in verbatim protocols: A new way of describing psychotherapeutic processes.

Mergenthaler¹

1996

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

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The goal of the study was to develop a computer-aided system that is able to identify key moments in transcripts from psychoanalytic sessions and to provide an adequate theory of change. The term key moment refers to 1 or more sessions of a treatment or to segments of a session that are seen as clinically important and often considered to be a turning point or breakthrough and that mirror points of insight as they occur in the course of the psychotherapeutic process. It will be shown that patterns built of combinations of the content analysis variable "emotion tone" and "abstraction" allow for describing therapeutic cycles including key moments. The method is shown successfully for a single case and for a sample of improved and not improved patients.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Emotion–abstraction patterns in verbatim protocols: A new way of describing psychotherapeutic processes.

Mergenthaler¹

1996

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

216

186

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“…By the 1970s, the Dartmouth adaptation of the General Inquirer had been updated for more general use on mainframe computers (e.g., Rosenberg, Schnurr, & Oxman, 1990; Rosenberg & Tucker, 1979). Many other word-based text analysis programs followed, a number of which were guided by psychoanalytic themes (Bucci, 1997; Horowitz, Milbrath, & Stinson, 1995; Mergenthaler, 1996). Interestingly, the majority of studies relying on these computer-based text analysis methods focused on distinguishing medical and psychiatric diagnoses.…”

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Linguistic styles: Language use as an individual difference.

Pennebaker¹,

King

1999

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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Can language use reflect personality style? Studies examined the reliability, factor structure, and validity of written language using a word-based, computerized text analysis program. Daily diaries from 15 substance abuse inpatients, daily writing assignments from 35 students, and journal abstracts from 40 social psychologists demonstrated good internal consistency for over 36 language dimensions. Analyses of the best 15 language dimensions from essays by 838 students yielded 4 factors that replicated across written samples from another 381 students. Finally, linguistic profiles from writing samples were compared with Thematic Apperception Test coding, self-reports, and behavioral measures from 79 students and with self-reports of a 5-factor measure and health markers from more than 1,200 students. Despite modest effect sizes, the data suggest that linguistic style is an independent and meaningful way of exploring personality.

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“…First, we examined data from three subjects in a series of singlecase studies (Hart, Stinson, Field, Ewert, Horowitz, 1995;Eels, Fridhandler, & Horowitz, 1995 ;Horowitz, Fridhandler, & Stinson, 1992;Horowitz et al, 1991Horowitz et al, , 1993Horowitz et al, , 1994Horowitz, Milbrath, & Stinson, 1995). In each case, we found that grief-related psychopathology was associated with a combination of contradictory role beliefs, leading to potentials for intense but dreaded emotional states and excessive regulation of emotional information processing to ward off these states.…”

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confidence: 98%