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On analytic process.

J Stuart Ablon1, Enrico E Jones

  • 1Psychotherapy Research Program, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA. sablon@sprintpcs.com

Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
|July 28, 2005
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This study quantitatively assessed analytic process in psychotherapy using the Psychotherapy Process Q-set (PQS). Psychoanalyses demonstrated the most analytic process, followed by long-term analytic therapies, and then brief psychodynamic therapies.

Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Psychotherapy Research
  • Psychoanalysis

Background:

  • Assessing therapeutic change processes in psychoanalytic treatments is complex.
  • Existing methods may lack a standardized, quantitative approach.
  • Understanding the core components of analytic process is crucial for effective therapy.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a quantitative methodology for assessing analytic process in psychotherapy.
  • To compare the degree of analytic process across different types of psychodynamic treatments.
  • To explore the concept of dyad-unique interaction structures in therapeutic change.

Main Methods:

  • Development of an ideal psychoanalytic hour prototype using the Psychotherapy Process Q-set (PQS).
  • Quantitative analysis of verbatim transcripts from psychoanalyses, long-term analytic therapies, and brief psychodynamic therapies.

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    • Main Results:

    • Psychoanalyses exhibited significantly more analytic process than long-term analytic therapies.
    • Long-term analytic therapies fostered more analytic process than brief psychodynamic therapies.
    • Dyad-unique interaction structures were identified as recurrent patterns influencing therapeutic action.

    Conclusions:

    • Analytic process can be operationally defined and quantitatively assessed using descriptive language.
    • While a general definition of analytic process exists, unique change processes occur within each therapeutic dyad.
    • A bipersonal model can integrate insight-oriented and experiential theories of therapeutic action.