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Psychoanalysis and ChangeA Study of Psychoanalytic Clinic Records Utilizing Electronic Data-Processing Techniques
John J. Weber, MD;
Jack Elinson, PhD;
Leonard M. Moss, MD
Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1967;17(6):687-709.
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THIS PAPER reports on a study designed to make available basic information about patients treated in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy, and to record changes that have taken place from the beginning to the end of treatment.1-4 Information was recorded from the written histories of 1,348 patients treated at Columbia University's Psychoanalytic Clinic for Training and Research. These data were put on punch cards and magnetic tape, then analyzed using electronic data-processing techniques. The structure and aims of this study will be presented, along with a description of clinical findings related to changes in the major areas of disturbance.
The original discoveries of psychoanalysis and subsequent theoretical formulations and generalizations about analytic techniques have been based primarily upon observations of the individual patient in the therapeutic relationship. Depth studies of individual patients have been the paradigm for analytic research, and it is
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Author Affiliations
New York
From the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York.
Footnotes
Submitted for publication May 9, 1967.
Read in part before meetings of the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine, March 2, 1965, and Jan 3, 1967, New York.
Reprint requests to 722 W 168th St, New York 10032 (Dr. Weber).
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