Language in Psychotherapy (LiPT)

How do we speak and what does this say about our state of health? In our studies, we analyse implicitly recorded language in psychotherapeutic processes. We use dictionary-based, automated methods of quantitative text analysis, in particular Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC). The analyses include basic linguistic dimensions as indicators of self-related attention (e.g. personal pronouns), psychological processes such as cognitions (e.g. positive and negative feelings), social aspects (e.g. reference to others) and relativity (e.g. time perspectives).