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Dr Liberman has long been devoted to the research into the circuits of communicative interaction established between patient and analyst during the psychoanalytic treatment.
In a monograph published in 1963, Communication in Analytic Therapy, he studied important aspects of human communication, such as the relation existing between the persons sending messages (sources) and the persons receiving (destinations) and decoding them, and who answer through this encoding to indicate to the sender that the message has been received. Following this cycle of communicative interaction, he took into account the disturbances which, by unconscious motives, might take place at different moments of the communicative process.
In the present publication, Dr Liberman's purpose is to carry out a further inquiry into and validation of the task of each of the participants during the analytic session.
He suggests the opening of a second circuit, outside the analytic session, to enable the analyst to analyse the psychoanalytic dialogue