Understanding Transference: Core Conflictual Relationship Theme Method

In the first volume of "Understanding Transference: The CCRT Method", Luborsky and Christoph provided concrete validation of Freud's observations about transference. Using Lester Luborsky's "core conflictual relationship theme" (CCRT) method, they demonstrated how to reliably measure recurring patterns in patients' central relationships and how to explore such patterns within both psychodynamic and other types of therapies. This edition seeks to show why the CCRT method is a good empirical measure of transference and why it continues to be used by researchers and clinicians. All chapters in the second edition have been revised and updated, and six are new. Part I surveys the basics of the CCRT method and provides detailed illustration of the CCRT scoring of patient narratives. The Relationship Anecdotes Paradigm, a versatile method for obtaining narratives, is described in Chapter 7. The book delves deeper into the multiple facets of the CCRT in Part II, where it explores nine directions to find the meaning of the CCRT measure. There is also an expanded study of the CCRT within narratives and dreams. In Part III, the book turns to clinical applications of the CCRT method, including everyday uses of the CCRT in practice. Finally, the book ends with an integrative summary reflecting on the convergence of many CCRT findings with Freud's observations about transference.

Table of Contents:
The Early Life of the Idea for the Core Conflictual Relationship Theme Method; A Guide to the CCRT Method; A Guide to the CCRT Standard Categories and Their Classification; Positive Versus Negative CCRT Patterns; Illustrations of the CCRT Scoring Guide; The Reliability of the CCRT Measure-Results from Eight Samples; The Relationship Anecdotes Paradigm (RAP) - Interview as a Versatile Source of Narratives; Why Each Method CCRT Procedure Was Chosen; The Narratives Told During Psychotherapy and the Types of CCRT; Changes in CCRT Pervasiveness During Psychotherapy; The Parellel of the CCRT From Waking Narratives With the CCRT; The Measurement of Accuracy of Interpretations; Self-Understanding of the CCRT; Perspectives of Patients Versus Clinicians in the Assessment of Relationship Themes; Stability of the CCRT from Ages 3-5; Stability of the CCRT From Before Psychotherapy Starts to the Early Sessions; The Everyday Clinical Uses of the CCRT; The Measurement of Mastery of Relationship Conflicts; Alternative measures of the Central Relationship Pattern; The Convergence of Freud's Observations About Transference With the Evidence; Where Are We in Understanding the CCRT?