A note on unwitting replication: quantitative studies of transference and resistance twenty years apart

There are precious few quantitative studies of psychoanalytic variables, and fewer still replications of earlier works. When an opportunity presents itself to examine repetition of an experiment, especially when the similarity is unwitting, it should not go unreported. The recent work of Graff and Luborsky (1977), who published a quantitative study of transference and resistance variables, parallels the author's own earlier work (Rawn, 1958). The similarities between the two studies are remarkable given their complete independence and 20-year lag. Both studies achieved a successful quantification of transference and resistance in the sense of reaching adequate levels of statistical reliability and clarity of ratings. In addition, both showed statistically significant concordances of pattern identifications.