Development and criterion validity of a computerized text analysis measure of reflective functioning

Psychotherapy Research

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 298-305

  Fertuck, Eric A ^a,f   Mergenthaler, Erhard ^b   Target, Mary ^c   Levy, Kenneth N ^d,e   Clarkin, John F ^e  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^f Weill Cornell Medical College ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

attachment; computer text analysis; language and psychotherapy; personality disorders; process research; psychoanalytic psychodynamic therapy; technology in psychotherapy research and training; test development

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BORDERLINE STATE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; VALIDATION STUDY; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADULT; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPUTING METHODOLOGIES; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; NARRATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; SELF PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 84861928644     PISSN: 10503307     EISSN: 14684381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10503307.2011.650654     Document Type: Article

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