REMEMBERING AND ACTING-OUT

In the accompanying paper two fifteen-hour psychoanalytical therapies were investigated with regard to the temporal distribution of Luborski an relationship episodes and the facial expressions of both protagonis ts. The two therapies were taken from a sample of eleven treatments: o ne had had the most success; the other, the least. The investigation f ocussed on waht type of interaction between the recollective narration of past relationships and the present form of relationships could be expected, and whether the relation between these two would be dependen t upon the success of the therapy. The hypothesis that a parallel proc essing of the narrated episode and the exhibited emotion would occur w ithin the patient could not be confirmed. The frequency of recollectiv e narration correlated negatively - in line with a hypothesis of Freud 's - with the frequency of exhibited emotions. In the successful treat ment, however, the therapist exhibited the emotions which one would ha ve expected the patient to show. The results are discussed in terms of a theory of the psychotherapeutical process and containing.