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[Speech behavior and neurotic personality structure. Is there a neuroses-specific communication behavior in the
Abstract:
Speech behaviour of the patient and the analyst is considered with regard to the psychoanalytic situation and its regulating factors such as transference and countertransference. It appears that the scientific viewpoint of the researching analyst determines the conception as well as the interpretation of a possible connection between verbal behaviour and neurotic personality structure. If the psychoanalytic situation is regarded as a means to investigate the patient and his symptoms, his verbal behaviour seems to depend on the unconscious motives forming his neurotic structure of personality. On the contrary, if the psychoanalytic situation is regarded as a communicative situation, the verbal behaviour of the patient as well as of the analyst depends rather on their 'here-and-now' transference relationship in a certain phase of the psychoanalytic process.