Physiological synchrony in psychotherapy sessions

Nonverbal Synchrony in Psychotherapy

Synchrony: A Core Concept for a Constructivist Approach to Psychotherapy

Synchrony is a pervasive concept relevant to diverse domains in physics, biology, and the social sciences. This article reviews some of the evidence both from natural and human systems. Our main focus is on the role of synchrony in psychotherapy research. Its association with empathy, rapport and the therapeutic relationship has been pointed out repeatedly, yet close evaluation of empirical stu...

Mutuality of Rogers's therapeutic conditions and treatment progress in the first three psychotherapy sessions.

OBJECTIVE Research on the effects of Rogers's therapeutic relationship conditions has typically focused on the unilateral provision of empathy, unconditional positive regard, and congruence from therapist to client. METHOD This study looked at both client and therapist mutuality of the Rogerian therapeutic conditions and the association between mutuality and treatment progress in the first th...

Human Language Technology for Text-based Analysis of Psychotherapy Sessions in the Spanish Language

We present work in progress in the application of Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology to the analysis of textual transcriptions of psychotherapy sessions in the Spanish Language. We are developing a set of NLP tools as well as adapting an existing dictionary for the analysis of interviews framed on a psychoanalytic theory. We investigate the application of NLP techniques, including dic...

Nonverbal synchrony of head- and body-movement in psychotherapy: different signals have different associations with outcome

OBJECTIVE The coordination of patient's and therapist's bodily movement - nonverbal synchrony - has been empirically shown to be associated with psychotherapy outcome. This finding was based on dynamic movement patterns of the whole body. The present paper is a new analysis of an existing dataset (Ramseyer and Tschacher, 2011), which extends previous findings by differentiating movements pertai...