?(&1.0&#.! Two short weekly individual psychodynamic therapies conducted by male psychoanalysts with a vast clinical experience, were analyzed. Both patients were female and had a similar reason for seeking help, and gave their informed consent to participate in the present study. All sessions in both therapies were included (N=39), during which 38 change episodes were identified, delimited, transcribed, and analyzed (A=14, B=24). :*(2.!;&2-5.2!! The analysis of the behavior of Communicative Patterns (CPs) throughout the therapeutic process, regardless of the participant's role, revealed an association between the Communicative Patterns (CPs) used to work on emotional contents during Change Episodes and the therapeutic phase, which means that there was a larger proportion of Affective Explorations during the initial phase of the therapeutic process and a larger proportion of Affective Resignifications during its final phase. No associations were observed between the Affective Attunement displayed and the phase of the therapy. The patients' Affective Explorations during the initial phase displayed more words reflecting both cause and tentative than in the middle phase, while patients performed a larger proportion of Affective Resignifications during the final phase, in comparison with the initial phase. No differences were observed between the initial and the middle phases, as well as between the middle and the final phases in terms of Affective Resignifications with words revealing insight . However, in comparison with the initial phase, the following was observed: (a) words reflecting cause were more frequent during the middle phase; (b) words reflecting tentative were more frequent during the middle phase; and (c) words reflecting certainty were more frequent during the middle phase. H*2/-22*$#!! Therefore, CPs are a relevant element in the psychotherapeutic process, because they make it possible to characterize the verbalizations of patients and therapists during therapeutic dialog. The study confirmed the notion that meaning is not something static contained in the words that a person uses, but a product of the way in which words are employed to regulate communication. This is why patients' and therapists' verbalizations were analyzed in terms of the semantic contents present during their use of Communicative Patterns, that is, considering the context in which such verbalizations were performed. G$#.1/.\!!
Nelson Valdés, nvaldes@uc.cl
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