title: Tracking errors in psychotherapy.
abstract: Typescripts of 10-minute segments of psychotherapy sessions often reveal instances where the therapist made incorrect statements that got the patient off his track. Tracking errors are classified and their effects described. By learning to recognize such errors therapists can diminish their frequency.
mesh_terms: D000786:Anger; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology; D003142:Communication; D004291:Dominance-Subordination; D006167:Guilt; D006801:Humans; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D014705:Verbal Behavior