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The relationship of defensive language behavior in patient monologues to the course of psychoanalysis
Author(s) -
Natale Michael,
Dahlberg Clay C.,
Jaffe Joseph
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(197804)34:2<466::aid-jclp2270340246>3.0.co;2-s
Subject(s) - psychology , feeling , psychoanalysis , duration (music) , psychotherapist , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , social psychology , literature , art
Abstract Examined the relationship of the time‐course of psychoanalysis to progressive alteration of defensive language behavior in 7 patients. Spontaneous 5‐minute monologues were recorded over 1.5 years of three‐times‐a ‐week individual psychotherapy. Weintraub and Aronson's (1962) formal measures of defensive language were used: nonpersonal references, negators, qualifiers, retractors, explaining, expressions of feeling, and evaluators. The magnitude of defensive speech displayed by a patient was able to predict significantly the duration of psychoanalysis undergone by that patient in 4 of 7 cases.