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Christian, C. (in press). On Approaching, Race, Class, and the Unconscious: A Case Study of Ataque de Nervios. In David Goodman and M. Mookie C. Manalili (editors), Meaningless Suffering, Traumatic Marginalisation, and Ethical Responsibility. London: Routledge.
Jaffe, C.M., Bucci, W., Maskit, B., Murphy, S. (In press) Clinical and Research Perspectives on the Therapeutic Conversation: The Case of Ms. M. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association
Renzi, A., Mariani, R., Fedele, F., Maniaci, V. G., Petrovska, E., D’Amelio, R., Mazzoni, G., & Di Trani, M. (2023). Women’s Narratives on Infertility as a Traumatic Event: An Exploration of Emotional Processing through the Referential Activity Linguistic Program. Healthcare, 11(22), 2919. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11222919
Gennaro, A., Rocco, D., Negri, A., Auletta, A., Marinaci, T., Dell’Arciprete, G., Kerusauskaite Skaiste, G., & Salvatore, S. (2022). The Role of Interpretation in Fostering the Psychotherapy Process: Evidence from a Single Case Study. Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, 10(1), 1–35. https://doi.org/10.13129/2282-1619/mjcp-3320
Negri, A., Castiglioni, M., Caldiroli, C.L., & Barazzetti, A. (2022). Language and Intelligence: A Relationship Supporting the Embodied Cognition Hypothesis. Journal of Intelligence, 10(3), 42, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence10030042
Negri, A., & Christian, C. (2022). Changes in Clinical Process as a Result of Online Therapy: Findings from a Single Case Study. Psychodynamic Psychiatry, 50(4), 659–671, https://doi.org/10.1521/pdps.2022.50.4.659
Negri, A., De Bei, F., Christian, C., & Rocco, D. (2022). Relationship between countertransference and emotional communication in the counselling process. Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, 10(3), 1–26. https://doi.org/10.13129/2282-1619/mjcp-3442
Bucci, W. (2021) Emotional Communication and Therapeutic Change: Understanding Psychotherapy through Multiple Code Theory, London: Routledge.
Bucci, W. (2021). Overview of the Referential Process: The Operation of Language Within and Between People. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 50, 3-15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-021-09759-2
Bucci, W. (2021). Development and validation of measures of referential activity. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 50, 17-27. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-021-09760-9
Bucci, W., Crisafulli, G. (2021). Linguistic Measures of the Therapeutic Process in Carl Rogers’s Case of Miss Vib. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 50, 169–192. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-021-09769-0
Bucci, W., Maskit, B. (2021). Concluding Notes and Future Directions. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 50, 231–237. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-020-09741-4
Bucci, W., Maskit, B., & Hoffman, L. (2021). Connecting feelings, thoughts and words: The referential process in theory, research and clinical studies [Special issue]. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 50.
Christian, C., Barzilai, E., Nyman, J., & Negri, A. (2021). Assessing key linguistic dimensions of ruptures in the therapeutic alliance. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 50, 143–153. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-021-09768-1
Fertuck, E.A., Dambreville, N., Diamond, D. et al. (2021). Referential Activity Differentially Mediates Expression of Positive and Negative Emotions in Borderline Personality Disorder. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 50, 155–167. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-021-09767-2
Mariani, R., Gennaro, A., Monaco, S., Di Trani, M., & Salvatore, S. (2021). Narratives of Dreams and Waking Thoughts: Emotional Processing in Relation to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 745081. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.745081
Mariani, R., & Hoffman, L. (2021). Analytic Process and Linguistic Style: Exploring Analysts’ Treatment Notes in the Light of Linguistic Measures of the Referential Process. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 1-14.
Mariani, R., Monaco, S., Christian , C., & Di Trani, M. (2021). Dreaming in quarantine: linguistic analysis of referential process of dreams during COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. Research in Psychotherapy: Psychopathology, Process and Outcome, 24(2). https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2021.537
Maskit, B. (2021). Overview of Computer Measures of the Referential Process. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 50, 29–49. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-021-09761-8
Maskit, B., Bucci, W., Murphy, S. et al. (2021). Referntial Activity as a Measure of Episodic Memory. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 50, 85–101. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-021-09766-3
Murphy, S., Melandri, E. & Bucci, W. (2021). The Effects of Story-Telling on Emotional Experience: An Experimental Paradigm. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 50, 117–142. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-021-09765-4
Negri, A., & Ongis, M. (2021). Stimulus features of the object relations technique affecting the linguistic qualities of individuals’ narratives. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 50, 65–83. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-021-09764-5
Nelson, K.L., Murphy, S.M. & Bucci, W. (2021). Narrativity and Referential Activity Predict Episodic Memory Strength in Autobiographical Memories. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 50, 103–116. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-021-09763-6
Webster, J., Bucci, W. & Petrovska, E. (2021) Research on the Psychoanalytic Process: The Case of Mrs. C. Special issue, Division Review: A Quarterly Psychoanalytic Forum (24)
Zhang, X., Bucci, W. (2021). Locating Nodal Moments Within Psychotherapy Sessions: A Mixed-Methods Study Using a Computerized Measure and Therapist Comments. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 50, 223–230. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-021-09772-5
Zhou, Y., Maskit, B., Bucci, W. et al. (2021). Development of WRRL: A New Computerized Measure of the Reflecting/Reorganizing Function. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 50, 51-64
Mariani, R., Di Trani, M., Negri, A., & Tambelli, R. (2020). Linguistic Analysis of Autobiographical Narratives in Unipolar and Bipolar Mood Disorders in Light of Multiple Code Theory. Journal of Affective Disorders, 273(1), 24–31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2020.03.170
Negri, A., Andreoli, G., Barazzetti, A., Zamin, C., & Christian, C. (2020). Linguistic Markers of the Emotion Elaboration Surrounding the Confinement Period in the Italian Epicenter of COVID-19 Outbreak. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, Article 568281. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.568281
Negri, A., Andreoli, G., Mariani, R., De Bei, F, Rocco, D., Greco, A., & Bucci, W. (2020). First Validation of the Referential Process Post-session Scale – Therapist version (RPPS-T). Clinical Neuropsychiatry, 17(6), 319–329. https://doi.org/10.36131/cnfioritieditore20200601
Bucci, W. (2019) The power of language in emotional life. (Il ruolo del linguaggio nella vita emotiva) Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane, 53, 379-404.
Hoffman (2019) Analytic Process from the Perspective of Conflict and Interpersonal/Relational Theory: A Potential Linguistic Indicator, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 55:4, 349-372, DOI: 10.1080/00107530.2019.1669407
Negri, A., Christian, C., Mariani, R., Belotti, L., Andreoli, G., & Danskin, K. (2019). Linguistic features of the therapeutic alliance in the first session: a psychotherapy process study. Research in Psychotherapy: Psychopathology, Process and Outcome, 22(1), 71–82. https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2019.374
Bucci, W. (2018) The primary process as a transitional concept: New perspectives from cognitive psychology and affective neuroscience. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 38(3), 198-209. https://doi.org/10.1080/07351690.2018.1430966
Bucci, W. (2018) Emotional communication in the case of Antonio. Psychoanalytic Inquiry. 38, 518-529. https://doi.org/10.1080/07351690.2018.1504581
Di Trani, M., Mariani, R., Renzi, A., Greenman, P. S., & Solano, L. (2018). Alexithymia according to Bucci’s multiple code theory: A preliminary investigation with healthy and hypertensive individuals. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 91(2), 232–247. https://doi.org/10.1111/papt.12158
Bucci, W. (2016) Divide and multiply: A multi-dimensional view of dissociative processes. In Howells, E.F. & Itzkowitz, S. (Eds.) The Dissociative Mind in Psychoanalysis: Understanding and working with trauma (pp. 187-199). Routledge
Bucci, W., Maskit, M. & Murphy, S. (2016) Connecting emotions and words: The referential process. Phenomenology and Cognitive Science DOI 10.1007/s11097-015-9417-z, 15(3), 359-383. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-015-9417-z
Hoffman, L. (2014) Language, Representation, Meaning, Resonances “Book Review: Psychoanalytic Terms and Concepts.” Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 62:909-914.
Bucci, W. (2013) The referential process as a common factor across treatment modalities. Research in Psychotherapy: Psychopathology, Process and Outcome, 16(1), 16-23. https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2013.86
Bucci, W. (2013) The enduring hope of shared creative exploration: Some thoughts on the work of Philip Bromberg. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 49(3), 420-436. https://doi.org/10.1080/00107530.2013.10779257
Hoffman, L., Algus, J., Braun, W., Bucci, W., and Maskit, B (2013). Treatment Notes: Objective measures of language style point to clinical insights. J of the American Psychoanalytic Association: 61:535-568. http://apa.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/05/13/0003065113489026 . This was also presented at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Society and the PPRS at the American Psychoanalytic Association.
Mariani, R., Maskit, B., Bucci, W. & De Coro, A. (2013) Linguistic measures of the referential process in psychodynamic treatment: The English and Italian versions, Psychotherapy Research, 23(4), 430-447. https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2013.794399
Bucci, W., Maskit, B., and Hoffman, L. (2012). Objective Measures of Subjective Experience: The Use of Therapist Notes in Process-Outcome Research. Psychodynamic Psychiatry 40(2) 303–340
Bucci, W. (2011). The Role of Embodied Communication in Therapeutic Change: A Multiple Code Perspective. In Tschacher, W. & Bergomi, C. (Eds) The Implications of Embodiment: Cognition and Communication Exeter: Imprint Academic, pp. 209-228
Bucci, W. (2011). The Interplay of Subsymbolic and Symbolic Processes in Psychoanalytic Treatment: It Takes Two to Tango—But Who Knows the Steps, Who’s The Leader? The Choreography of the Psychoanalytic Interchange. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 21, 45-54. https://doi.org/10.1080/10481885.2011.545326
Bucci, W. (2011). The role of subjectivity and intersubjectivity in the reconstruction of dissociated schemas; converging perspectives from psychoanalysis, cognitive science and affective neuroscience. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 28(2), 247–266. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0023170
Bucci, W. (2010). The Uncertainty Principle in the Psychoanalytic Process. In J. Petrucelli (Ed.) Knowing, Not-Knowing and Sort-of-Knowing: Psychoanalysis and the Experience of Uncertainty (pp. 203-214). Karnac Books.
Christian, C., Hoffman. L , Bucci, W., Mulroe, M., and Worth, M. (2010). Symbolization and Emotional Engagement In Mothers’ Reports of Child Care Activities. Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies 7(1):22-39.
Pavlinovic, L., Bucci, W., Hoffman, L., & Maskit, B. (2009). Evaluation of psychoanalytic treatment notes
Bucci, W. (2008). The role of bodily experience in emotional organization. In F. S. Anderson (Ed.) Bodies in Treatment; The Unspoken Dimension (pp. 51-77) https://doi.org/10.1080/07351690701468157. The Analytic Press, Inc.
Bucci, W. (2007) Four Domains Of Experience In The Therapeutic Discourse. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 27(5), 617-639. https://doi.org/10.1080/07351690701468157
Bucci, W. (2007) Building the interface of research and practice; Achievements and Unresolved Questions. In Bucci, W. and Freedman, N. ( Eds.). From Impression to Inquiry: The Integration of Clinical and Research Perspectives in the work of Robert Wallerstein (pp. 175-204). International Psychoanalytical Association Press.
Bucci, W. (2007) Dissociation from the perspective of multiple code theory: Part I; Psychological roots and implications for psychoanalytic treatment. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 43(2), 165-184. https://doi.org/10.1080/00107530.2007.10745903
Bucci, W. (2007) Dissociation from the perspective of multiple code theory: Part II; The spectrum of dissociative processes in the psychoanalytic relationship. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 43(3), 305-326. https://doi.org/10.1080/00107530.2007.10745912
Bucci, W., Freedman, N., Eds. (2007) From Impression to Inquiry: The Integration of Clinical and Research Perspectives in the work of Robert Wallerstein. International Psychoanalytical Association Press.
Freedman, N., Bucci, W. (2007) Robert Wallerstein’s vision and the evolution of psychoanalytic research – the one and the many. In Bucci, W. & Freedman, N. (Eds) From Impression to Inquiry: The Integration of Clinical and Research Perspectives in the work of Robert Wallerstein (pp. 1-10). International Psychoanalytical Association Press.
Roussos, A.J., Bucci, W., and Maskit B. (2007) A second generation clinical library: First steps. In Bucci, W. & Freedman, N. (Eds) From Impression to Inquiry: The Integration of Clinical and Research Perspectives in the work of Robert Wallerstein (pp. 152-174). International Psychoanalytical Association Press.
Hoffman, A. G. (2006). Is psychoanalysis a poetics of the body?. American imago, 63(4), 395-422.
Bucci, W. (2005) Basic concepts and methods of psychoanalytic process research. In Person, E., Cooper, A., and Gabbard, G. (Eds.) Textbook of Psychoanalysis (pp. 339-355). American Psychiatric Press.
Maskit, B., Shanahan, J. G., Qu, Y., & Wiebe, J. (2005). A weighted dictionary for Referential Activity. Computing Attitude and Affect in Text, 49-60.
Bucci, W. (2004) Kognitionswissenschaften un Psychoanalyse: Neue Perspektiven zur Multiple-Code Theorie. In Giampieri-Deutsch, P. (Ed.) Psychoanalyse im Dialog der Wissenschaften. Vienna: Kohlhammer.
Fertuck, E.A., Bucci, W., Blatt, S.J., and Ford, R.A. (2004) Verbal representation and therapeutic change in anaclitic and introspective inpatients. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training, 41(1), 13-25. https://doi.org/10.1037/0033-3204.41.1.13
Bucci, W. (2003) Varieties of dissociative experiences: A multiple code account and a discussion of Bromberg’s case of William. Psychoanalytic Psychology, Vol. 20(3), 542-557. https://doi.org/10.1037/0736-9735.20.3.542
Bucci, W. (2002) The language of emotions; An evolutionary perspective. Journal of Evolution and Cognition, 8(), 172-183.
Bucci, W. (2002) The challenge of diversity in modern psychoanalysis. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 19(1), 216-226. https://doi.org/10.1037/0736-9735.19.1.216
Bucci, W. (2002) From subsymbolic to symbolic – and back; Therapeutic impact of the referential process. In Lasky, R. (Ed), Symbolization and Desymbolization: Essays in Honor of Norbert Freedman (pp. 50-74). Other Press.
Bucci, W. (2002) Multiple code theory and the Referential process: Applications to Process Research. In Fonagy et al., (Eds.) An Open Door Review of Outcome Studies in Psychoanalysis; Second Edition (pp. 192-195). International Psychoanalytical Association.
Bucci, W. (2002) The Referential Process, Consciousness, and the Sense of Self Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 22, 766-793. https://doi.org/10.1080/07351692209349017
Bucci, W. (2001) Pathways of emotional communication. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 20(1), 40-70. https://doi.org/10.1080/07351692109348923
Bucci, W. (2001) Toward a “psychodynamic science”: The state of current research. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 49(1), 57-68. https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651010490010401
Bucci, W. (2001) En apoyo de la inferencia psicoanalítica: el rol de los modelos psicológicos”, in Maldavsky, D. (Ed.) Subjetividad y procesos cognitivos. http://dspace.uces.edu.ar:8180/xmlui/handle/123456789/533
Bucci, W., Zoppi L., & Solano L. (2001) Teoria del codice multiplo e attività referenziale: significato e impieghi nella ricerca sulla salute. In Solano L. (Ed.) Tra Mente e Corpo: come si costruisce la salute, Roma: Raffaello Cortina, pp.231-255.
Bucci, W. (2000) The need for a “psychoanalytic psychology” in the cognitive science field. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 17(2), 203-224. https://doi.org/10.1037/0736-9735.17.2.203
Bucci, W. (1999) The multiple code theory and the “third ear”; The role of theory and research in clinical practice. Psichiatria e Psicoterapia Analitica, 18(4), 299-310.
Jepson, L. and Bucci, W. (1999) Object relations and referential activity in physically abused adolescents. Adolescence, 34(136), 781-792.
Mergenthaler, E. and Bucci, W. (1999) Linking verbal and nonverbal representations: Computer analysis of Referential Activity. British Journal of Medical Psychology, 72(3), 339-354. https://doi.org/10.1348/000711299160040
Bucci, W. (1998) Transformation of meanings in the analytic discourse; A strategy for research. Canadian Journal of Psychoanalysis, 6(2), 233-260.
Bucci, W. (1998) Toward a scientific model of the psychoanalytic process: A new “Project”. Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, 15, 257-280.
Bucci, W. (1997) Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Science: A multiple code theory. N.Y. Guilford Press.
Bucci, W. (1997) Symptoms and symbols; A multiple code theory of somatization. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 17(2), 151-172. https://doi.org/10.1080/07351699709534117
Bucci, W. (1997) Referential Activity and the CCRT. 20th Ulm Workshop of Empirical Research in Psychoanalysis, June 19 – 21, 1997. On line publication. http://sip.medizin.uni-ulm.de/Ulm20/Start.htm, Ulmer Textbank. (CD ROM, 20th Workshop).
Bucci, W. (1997) Patterns of discourse in “good” and troubled hours; A multiple code interpretation. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 45(1), 155-187. https://doi.org/10.1177/00030651970450010301
Bucci, W. (1995) The power of the narrative; A multiple code account. In Pennebaker, J. (Ed.) Emotion, Disclosure and Health (pp. 93-122). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/10182-005
Bucci, W. (1994) The multiple code theory and the psychoanalytic process: A Framework for Research. Annual of Psychoanalysis, 22, 239-259.
Bucci, W. (1994) The multiple code theory and the referential process; A new framework for psychoanalytic research. In Caro, I. (Ed.) Psicoterapia e Investigacion de Proceso (Psychotherapy and Process Research). Valencia, Spain: Editorial Promolibro.
Bucci, W. (1993). The development of emotional meaning in free association: A multiple code theory. In A. Wilson & J. E. Gedo (Eds.), Hierarchical concepts in psychoanalysis: Theory, research, and clinical practice (pp. 3-47). Guilford Press.
Bucci, W. and Kabasakalian, R. and the RA Research Group (1992). Instructions for scoring Referential Activity (RA) in transcripts of spoken narrative texts. Ulm, Germany; Ulmer Textbank.
Bucci, W. (1989) When language fails: A psychoanalytic appraisal of alexithymic disorders. Contemporary Psychology, 35(2), DOI: 10.1037/028265
Bucci, W. (1989) A reconstruction of Freud’s tally argument: A program for psychoanalytic research. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 9(2), 249-281. https://doi.org/10.1080/07351698909533766
Bucci W. (1988) Converging Evidence for Emotional Structures: Theory and Method. In Dahl H., Kächele H., Thomä H. (Eds), Psychoanalytic Process Research Strategies (pp. 29-49). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74265-1_3
Bucci, W. (1988) A dual coding “glossary” for the psychoanalytic process. Forum of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis. 32, 8–11.
Bucci, W. (1985) Dual Coding: A cognitive model for psychoanalytic research. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 33(3), 571-607. https://doi.org/10.1177/000306518503300305
Bucci, W. (1984) Linking words and things: Basic processes and individual variation. Cognition, 17(2), 137-153. https://doi.org/10.1016/0010-0277(84)90016-7
Bucci, W. (1982) The vocalization of painful affect. Journal of Communication Disorders, 15, 415–440.
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