Methods for evaluating normal and pathological couples and families according to the elementary pragmatic model.

Following the interactional view of the problem of human communication and relation, as developed by many authors in past years, a review of the research in the field of the relational test is briefly described. In particular, an interaction test which permits automatic data collection and processing is designed, which derives from the Elementary Pragmatic Model by De Giacomo et al. A low cost minicomputer system is an adequate support, being the implemented procedures self consistent ones.