[Power, status and valency in healthy and ill partners]

Using the degree of identification and projection (self concept/concept of self as perceived by others--Giessen-test) it was possible to develop a new approach to power, status and valency in couple relationships by means of deriving theoretical probabilities from those three core variables. The anticipated scores were validated using a number of reference scores of typical clinical samples and putting them in relationship to the standardized marital couples.