[Computer-assisted text analysis of psychiatric treatment sessions--comparison with psychoanalytically oriented...

24 interviews in a psychiatric outpatient clinic have been analysed as well by means of the Ulm computer-assisted text data analysis (macro- and micro-structural) as by means of a self-administered adjective checklist and have been compared with psychoanalytic initial interviews, psychoanalytic sessions and visit interviews in an internal and in a psychosomatic ward. The therapists' verbal activity was more in psychiatric interviews than in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic initial interviews, but less than in visit interviews in an internal, not in a psychosomatic ward, however. Subgrouping the psychiatric interviews according to the patients' initial emotional state, there were significant differences of the sequential analyses- and that regarding verbal activity, frequencies of anxiety topics, common vocabulary, talking about psychopharmacotherapy versus interpersonal relationships and use of personal pronouns. Conclusively, psychiatric interviews can be recorded and evaluated by methods of empirical psychotherapy process research.