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The publication of this volume as a supplement to the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association is an indication of how much things have changed since the sixties when a paper by Karush and his group that dealt with predictions of outcome was refused by the psychoanalytic journals and had to be published in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease.
Shapiro and Emde state (p. 2), “This volume is dedicated to … the work of some … selected… investigators … who have laboured to bring our science into parity with other scientific disciplines.” The basis on which they were selected is obvious from the index: there are 22 references to the word attachment and none to the word psychosexual, surely confirming André Green's comments about the decline of interest in sexuality in psychoanalysis ( IJPA 76, 871-83) Authors who have done work on psychosexual development such as Roiphe, Galenson, and Parens, have been excluded.
Process research, like advances in other fields of science, hinges on technological advances, in this instance the audio recording of sessions, and the computer. As Galatzer-Levy points out, the technology now exists to test empirically the validity of such propositions as Strachey's 1934 assertion that analysis works through interpretation of the transference to the analyst.
Debates on such matters can now rely on evidence rather than persuasiveness, although the yield of process research so far gives more indications of what can be done than of what actually has been done and little of it can be directly useful to the clinician.
Enrico Jones describes a psychotherapy process Q-set (PQS) while Spence looks for the co-occurrence of pronouns such as you/me, and you/I (COR Trans).
Several authors have devised methodology for a systematic view of repetitive patterns in the transcripts: Teller and Dahl look for Fundamental and Repetitive Maladaptive Emotion Structures (FRAMES), Horowitz for Role Relationship Model Configurations (RRMC), Luborsky for Core