A SCORE OF TRANSFERENCE - (EMOTIONAL) EXPERIENCE OF REFERENCE IN PSYCHOANALYSES

The (emotional) experience of reference in psychoanalyses, presented h ere, has been developed by the author in continuation of a method evol ved by Gill and Hoffman 1982 in Chicago, which they termed ''The Patie nt's Experience of the Relationship with the Therapist'', to describe the course of analytical work on patient resistance against transferen ce. The ''Experience of reference in psychoanalyses'' is a rating meth od that links by means of its two manuals quantitative methods (which are empirical in the conventional sense) with qualitative, clinical-he rmeneutical research approaches. After reliable coding of categorial d ata of a tape recorder transcription, a condensed description of the c ourse and a clinical comment are obtained, the graphic representation of which reads like a score transference.