The relationship of defensive language behavior in patient monologues to the course of psychoanalysis

摘要

AbstractExamined 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 o