Assessing changes in alliance ruptures with the Collaborative Interventions Rating Scale

The aim of this paper is to investigate the collaborative processes and the ruptures in therapeutic alliance in a psychoanalysis completely audiotaped and trascripted conducted by Merton Gill. In order to accomplish this goal, we have selected a sample of 32 sessions (4 every six months of analysis). Three independent raters will apply to these sessions the Collaborative Interaction Scale (CIS; Colli, Lingiardi, 2009). In line with previous results, we expect to find a progressive decrease in ruptures processes during the analysis, with an intermediate phase where they increase, and an increase in collaborative interactions. We will also investigate the relations among collaborative processes, personality changes and psychoanalytic process.