Relationships between the object focus of therapist interpretations and outcome in short‐term individual psychotherapy
- 1 March 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice
- Vol. 59 (1) , 1-11
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2044-8341.1986.tb02659.x
Abstract
The relationships between the object (person) focus of therapist interpretations and outcome were examined for 21 patients who received short-term individual psychotherapy. Percentages of single objects and linked objects, e.g. therapist-parent link, were derived from an analysis of the therapy sessions. Patients, therapists and an independent assessor provided pre-therapy, post-therapy and six-month follow-up outcome scores. Contrary to other reports in the literature little evidence was found to support the hypothesis of a direct linear relationship between object focus and favorable outcome. Several explanations for the findings are discussed.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: