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D Pokorny

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Stereotypical relationship patterns and psychopathology.

BACKGROUND: We explored the relationship between the consistency of relationship patterns and the severity of psychopathology. METHOD: Relationship patterns were assessed by means of Relationship Anecdote Paradigm interviews rated according to the Core Conflictual Relationship Theme (CCRT) method. The repetition of the same type of CCRT components across relationship narratives indicated stereotypical patterns. RESULTS: Subjects treated in an inpatient setting (n = 25) told narratives with more consistent patterns than subjects in an outpatient setting (n = 32). Relationship episodes of normal adults (n = 23) were more flexible compared with the two clinical groups. Especially repetitions of the wish component were closely associated with the severity of psychopathology assessed by SCL-90R. CONCLUSIONS: The consistency of relationship patterns seems to be connected with the severity of psychopathology.

Adaptation, Psychological↗

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[The core conflictual relationship theme of core relationship patterns. A further methodology-critical development of the "core conflictual relationship theme" method].

The Core Conflictual Relationship Thema Method (CCRT) by Lester Luborsky is based on the analysis of narratives about relationship episodes within transcripts of therapy sessions. Wishes, responses of the other and responses of the self are identified and counted. The critical explanation with the CCRT-Method conducted to alternative methods of data analysis. In the result we have not only one Core Conflictual Relationship Theme (CCRT), but we analyse the structure of Central Relationship Pattern (CRP). We set an example with a completely judged brief psychodynamic psychotherapy with about 300 relationship episodes.

Conflict, Psychological↗

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[The dream as a relationship paradigm].

279 dreams were drawn from a sample of 32 reports on psychoanalytic treatments of female patients diagnosed either as hysteric (H) or depressed (D). Depending on the gender of the analyst (female = w; male = m) four groups Dm, Dw, Hm, Hw were distinguished. Content analysis of the manifest dreams as to the occurrence of objects, emotions as well as characteristic object-emotion combinations yielded significant differences between groups. The results indicate that dreams can be viewed as relationship paradigms.

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