[Application of the Relationship Episodes Interview]

The Core Conflictual Relationship Theme (CCRT) is a content analytic assessment developed by Luborsky that uses narratives about relationship episodes with significant others as data base to identify repetitive relationship patterns that appear in individual behavior. Luborsky's Relationship Anecdotes Paradigm (RAP) Interview for which we introduced the German expression Relationship Episodes-Interview (RE-Interview) is a method for eliciting relationship episodes independently from therapy. In this paper we give an introduction into the practice and into the possible applications of this interview form according to the experiences the Ulm CCRT-group made with the instructions of Luborsky. The bases of our experience are 40 audio-visual recorded RE-Interviews. An example shows how to attain to the CCRT-formulation from the interview.