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Key moments and nature of therapeutic interventions in brief psychodynamic psychotherapy

The study aimed to evaluate possible associations between nature of the therapist intervention and the patient response, in key-moments of different phases of the psychotherapeutic process. This is a case-based research, with an exploratory character. We have analyzed transcripts of early sessions (1st and 2nd sessions), middle (6th and 7th sessions) and end (10th and 11th sessions) of brief psychodynamic psychotherapy, with Model of Cycles Therapeutic (TCM) and classification of Therapeutic Interventions (IT). TCM is a computerized method of analysis that identifies key moments of the process, named therapeutic cycles. The IT were classified into expressive and supportive. The results suggest that interventions are modulated by the responses of the patient and the specific tasks of the therapist, regardless of stage. Also no association was observed between cycles and therapeutic modality of intervention. Some limitations concerning the applied instruments are pointed as source of possible bias.

Psychotherapy change (psychology); Software; Computer applications; Psychotherapeutic processes


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