Methods of Research in Psychotherapy

ISBN-13: 9781468460476 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 654 str.

Louis A. Gottschalk

Opis

The prospective reader may well ask about the particular merits of this volume, especially in view of several dozen similar offerings, each with its own excellences, and of the easy availability of symposia, conferences, con- ventional reviews, abstract journals, and serial research reports. In spite of such other attractions, it seems to me that these 34 essays are among the most informative and stimulating which are now available in the areas cov- ered. The editors have been successful in attracting new articles from many of the most prominent investigators now actively working at research in psychotherapy, who can therefore speak for themselves about what they are doing. Several of the articles have been in the preparatory stage for numerous years. Not only do they represent the vanguard of research, but because of the introduction of relatively new concepts in communication theory in the clinical setting which can be implemented by the new tech- nology (specifically the use of sound-films and tape), they probably presage the shape of much that is to come. It is commonplace that the history of a science is closely allied to the history of the tools available. Here we see the concepts, attitudes, and working methods on this frontier being set forth frankly and concretely in ways which avoid many of the deficiencies and evasions of previous clini- cal research.

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I Introduction.- 1. Goals and Problems in Psychotherapy Research.- II The Process of Data Collection.- A. Data Recording.- 2. Filming Psychotherapy from the Viewpoint of a Research Cinematographer.- 3. Sound Motion Picture Facilities for Research in Communication.- B. Reactions of the Patient and Therapist to the Recording Procedure.- 4. An Experiment in Filmed Psychotherapy.- 5. Sound-Film Recording of Psychoanalytic Therapy: A Therapist’s Experiences and Reactions.- 6. Subjective Reactions to Being Filmed.- 7. The Experience of Interviewing in the Presence of Observers.- 8. Filming of Psychotherapeutic Sessions as a Personal Experience.- III Data Analysis.- A. Process Research Focusing on Selected Variables.- 1. Communication Variables in General.- 9. Language and Psychotherapy.- a. Language Variables.- 10. Measurement of Motivational Variables in Psychotherapy.- 11. The Measurement of Emotional Changes During a Psychiatric Interview: A Working Model Toward Quantifying the Psychoanalytic Concept of Affect.- 12. Content Analysis of Verbalizations about Interpersonal Experience.- b. ParaLanguage and Linguistic Variables.- 13. Linguistic Techniques and the Analysis of Emotionality in Interviews.- c. Kinesic Variables.- 14. Micromomentary Facial Expressions as Indicators of Ego Mechanisms in Psychotherapy.- 15. Some Principles of Correlating Verbal and Non-verbal Communication.- A Fragment of a Sound Filmed Psychiatric Interview (Number 1) Illustrating Kinesic Variables (Demonstrating Dr. Felix Deutsch’s Concepts).- 2. Complex Processes.- 16. Free association: An Experimental Analogue of the Psychoanalytic Situation.- 17. The Consensus Problem in Psychoanalytic Research.- 18. Some Methods Used in the Study of Affect in Psychotherapy.- 19. A Sound-Filmed Psychiatric Interview: Number 2, the “Temple University” Interview, Used for the Demonstration of Data Analysis in this Book.- B. Process Research Emphasizing Investigation of Personality Functioning and Theory.- 1. The Natural History Model.- 20. Natural History Method in Psychotherapy: Communicational Research.- 2. The Classical and Operant Conditioning Models.- 21. Behavior Modification Research and the Role of the Therapist.- 22. The Repertoire of the Autistic Child in Relation to Principles of Reinforcement.- 3. The Psychoanalytic Model.- 23. Psychoanalytic Contributions to Psychotherapy Research.- 24. Toward the Longitudinal Study of the Psychotherapeutic Process.- 25. Collection and Utilization of Data in a Psychoanalytic Psychosomatic Study.- 4. The Client-centered Model.- 26. Research Directives and Methods in Client-Centered Therapy.- IV Evaluation of the Effects or Outcome of Psychotherapy.- A. Problems Regarding the Determination of the Pertinent Changes and How to Assess Them.- 27. Evaluative Research Design: A Social Casework Illustration.- 28. An Introduction to Intensive Design in the Evaluation of Drug Efficacy During Psychotherapy.- 29. The Psychotherapy Research Project of the Menninger Foundation: An Overview at the Midway Point.- 30. A Comparison of the Response to Psychoanalytic and Client-Centered Psychotherapy.- B. Measurement Tools to Assess Change with Psychotherapy.- 31. The Structured Personality Inventory in Measurement of Effects of Psychotherapy.- 32. The Rorschach Test, Communication, and Psychotherapy.- 33. Methods Relating to Evaluation of Therapeutic Outcome.- V Research in the Teaching of Psychotherapy.- 34. Experimentation in the Teaching and Learning of Psychotherapy Skills.- Author Index.