["Repeating" the transference? The central relationship conflict topic of the 290th session--questions, problems,...

The following text sums up the results of an examination of a therapeutic session in which a psychoanalyst treated a patient suffering from neurotic depression. We employed the CCRT method which was applied at various levels of abstraction and in two steps of evaluation. The standard evaluation procedure allows for both a more thorough evaluation of "self-relationship episodes" and episodes involving other objects. An integration of "tailor-made" formulations allowed us to analyse another set of "relationship-patterns": namely, those which, in contrast to those most often found in conflict themes, contain positive traits. These results were then discussed clinically to examine these in light of the therapeutic conception of depression. In this context, the question arose as to whether the classic CCRT method can be fruitfully applied in long-term analysis and if this notion should be modified in order to examine the analysis of depression more effectively. A first attempt at such a modification was undertaken in the hope it would allow us to evaluate both the relevance of meaning passages contained in the clinical data and the visible processes of change.