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Verbal response modes and psychotherapeutic technique.
Psychiatry. 1979 Feb;42(1):49-62
Authors: Stiles WB
This paper presents a taxonomy of verbal response modes and applies that taxonomy to the verbal behavior of psychotherapists of three contrasting schools: client-centered, gestalt, and psychoanalytic. The taxonomy consists of a theoretically based set of classificatory principles that define a mutually exclusive and exhaustive set of modes. Its purpose is to describe dyadic verbal interaction comprehensively and quantitatively. Such description is a necessary first step in investigating the therapeutic effectiveness of different interaction styles.
PMID: 760134 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]