Negri Attà, Barazzetti Arianna
Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Bergamo, Piazzale S. Agostino 2, Bergamo, 24129, Italy.
J Psycholinguist Res. 2025 May 8;54(3):33. doi: 10.1007/s10936-025-10149-1.
The analysis of epistemological beliefs underlying psychotherapeutic interventions has been largely neglected by research in psychotherapy, training in psychotherapy and psychology, and often by theorists of different clinical orientations. The main risks of this neglect are the unexamined adoption of the epistemology that is taken for granted by the culture and is largely inconsistent with the specifics of the object of study of psychological science; the reduction of intervention effectiveness due to the inconsistency between epistemology, theory, and practice; and the maintenance of the gap between research and practice due to the different epistemologies used by clinicians and researchers. This article discusses the scientific status of the computerized linguistic measures of the Referential Process when used for clinical and research purposes. Our claim is that these measures developed to test Wilma Bucci's multiple code theory don't represent an objective examination of the psychotherapeutic process, but rather a methodological option to guide the researcher and clinician in identifying the most plausible scientific hypotheses about the complex phenomenon of emotional communication between speakers. Comparison of data from different points of view (therapist, patient, external observer, computerized linguistic analysis, etc.) and in different contexts (therapies, psychological tests, everyday conversations, experimental situations, etc.) will be presented as promising and viable ways to examine the validity of the hypotheses based on the Referential Process theory.
心理治疗干预背后的认识论信念分析在心理治疗研究、心理治疗与心理学培训中很大程度上被忽视了，不同临床取向的理论家往往也忽视了这一点。这种忽视带来的主要风险包括：未经审视就采用了文化中被视为理所当然但在很大程度上与心理科学研究对象的具体情况不一致的认识论；由于认识论、理论与实践之间的不一致导致干预效果降低；以及由于临床医生和研究人员使用不同的认识论而维持了研究与实践之间的差距。本文讨论了参照过程的计算机化语言测量方法在临床和研究目的使用时的科学地位。我们认为，这些为检验威尔玛·布奇的多重编码理论而开发的测量方法并非对心理治疗过程的客观考察，而是一种方法选项，用于指导研究人员和临床医生识别关于说话者之间情感交流这一复杂现象的最合理科学假设。来自不同视角（治疗师、患者、外部观察者、计算机化语言分析等）以及不同情境（治疗、心理测试、日常对话、实验情境等）的数据比较，将作为基于参照过程理论检验假设有效性的有前景且可行的方法呈现出来。
