Computer-assisted text data analysis of psychiatric interviews-comparison with psychoanalytic initial interviews, psychoanalytic sessions and visit interviews

Journal/Book: Psychother Psychosom Med Psyc. 1996; 46: P O Box 30 11 20, D-70451 Stuttgart, Germany. Georg Thieme Verlag. 438-443.

Abstract: 24 interviews in a psychiatric outpatient clinic have been analysed as well by means of the Ulm computer-assisted text data analysis (macro- and micro-structural) as by means of a self-administered adjective checklist and have been compared with psychoanalytic initial interviews, psychoanalytic sessions and visit interviews in an internal and in a psychosomatic ward. The therapists' verbal activity was more in psychiatric interviews than in psychoanalyses and psychoanalytic initial interviews, but less than in visit interviews in an internal, not in a psychosomatic ward, however. Subgrouping the psychiatric interviews according to the patients' initial emotional state, there were significant differences of the sequential analyses - and that regarding verbal activity, frequencies of anxiety topics, common vocabulary, talking about psychopharmacotherapy versus interpersonal relationships and use of personal pronoums. Conclusively, psychiatric interviews can be recorded and evaluated by methods of empirical psychotherapy process research.

Note: Article Scheibe G, Univ Dusseldorf, Klin Inst, Postfach 101007, D-40001 Dusseldorf, GERMANY

Keyword(s): psychiatric interviews; psychotherapy process research; computer-assisted text data analysis

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