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The analysts were given all eight sessions listed below, provided by Bucci and Maskit for this project:
▮ Session 38: from the first year of treatment
▮ Session 326: early in the third year; from the first session of the week in which she decides to have a pregnancy test
▮ Sessions 431, 432, and 433: later in the third year; from the first three sessions in the week of her return after the birth of her daughter
▮ Sessions 726, 727, and 728: from the fifth year; the week preceding the summer break
Bucci presents the basis for this session selection in her paper in this issue, based on the computerized measures and their underlying theory and on her previous work on this case, and discusses the sense in which these sessions may be seen as representative of different phases of this long and intensive treatment. In her close process analysis, she focuses on Session 38, from the first year, which she had presented in an earlier work (Bucci, 1997b), using different computerized procedures, as showing features of the “good hour” ; Session 433, from the week of her return to treatment, and two sessions from the fifth year: Session 727, which contained a segment selected by the computerized measures as thematically most representative of her underlying emotion structures, and the session following and carrying forward that theme.
While each analyst had access to all of the above-mentioned sessions, they were asked to focus on the two weeks of sequential sessions, {Sessions 431, 432, and 433} and {Sessions 726, 727, 728}, from the third and fifth years. Session 38 was included for reading because it was the one that had the highest referential activity measures and gives a baseline display of patient and analyst working together. Also included was Session 326, the session in which Mrs. C thinks she is pregnant but hasn't had it confirmed yet. This session, a tumultuous hour before the confirmation of pregnancy, nicely complemented Session 38, the “good hour,” as presenting a critic