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Content Analysis of Verbal Behavior in Psychotherapy Research: A Comparison Between Two Methods

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Content analysis of verbal behavior is a research technique for making inferences by systematically and objectively identifying specified characteristics in spoken or written language. By developing categories of speech units, content analytic procedures are designed to specify judgmental processes and transform intuitive evaluations into explicit rules (9, 16).

Reprinted from The British Journal of Medical Psychology (55: 327–333, 1982) with permission of the authors and publisher.

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  1. Fernando Lolas
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  1. Psychiatric Consultation and Liaison Division, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, 92717, Irvine, CA, USA

    Louis A. Gottschalk M.D., Ph.D. (Professor of Psychiatry and Director) (Professor of Psychiatry and Director)

  2. Psychophysiology Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, P.O. Box 70055, Santiago 7, Chile

    Fernando Lolas M. D. (Associate Professor) (Associate Professor)

  3. Department of Psychology, University of Wollongong, P.O. Box 1144, 2500, Wollongong, N.S.W., Australia

    Linda Louise Viney (Associate Professor) (Associate Professor)

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Lolas, F., Mergenthaler, E., von Rad, M. (1986). Content Analysis of Verbal Behavior in Psychotherapy Research: A Comparison Between Two Methods. In: Gottschalk, L.A., Lolas, F., Viney, L.L. (eds) Content Analysis of Verbal Behavior. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71085-8_9

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