title: Psychotherapeutic treatments evaluated with two instruments: clinical questionnaire and semantic differential.
abstract: We evaluated about 100 psychotherapeutic treatments on the Freudian model with two independent instruments: a clinical questionnaire (assessed globally and intuitively) and a semantic differential (processed through various mathematic analyses). The results obtained with the two instruments were compared, and we also compared the semantic evolution of patients with that of normal subjects. Both instruments show an undeniable average improvement among patients. The semantic differential also shows that the various 'zones' tested by the inducive words are neither equally affected by neurosis nor equally modified by treatment.
authors.affiliation: Research Department, Division of Adult Psychiatry, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bovet
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Spagnoli
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Gilliéron
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005619:Freudian Theory; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D011594:Psychometrics; D012659:Semantic Differential