Core Conflictual Relationship Theme
CCRT — Relational Pattern Analysis · Luborsky (1998) Method
Automated coding of free-response relationship narratives to extract recurring relational patterns: what you seek from others (Wish), how you expect others to respond (Response of Other), and how you typically react (Response of Self).
The three CCRT components
Wish
What you want from others in the relationship episode. The motivational core of the pattern — the goal that drives approach or avoidance behavior.
Response of Other
How the other person actually responds (or is expected to respond) in the episode. Captures interpersonal expectations — the relational schema in action.
Response of Self
How you react to the other person's response. Typically includes affective and behavioral components. Pervasiveness across episodes indicates clinical salience.
What you get
- Write three relationship episodes — results in seconds
- W / RO / RS category hit counts
- Interpersonal-circumplex (IPC) coordinate per component
- Most-frequent theme per component
- Deterministic lexical coding — no AI inference
- Standard CCRT category taxonomy (96 categories)
- IPC circumplex coordinates per component
- Pervasiveness analysis across episodes
- SASB surface mapping per component
- Deterministic — fully reproducible scoring
- Everything in Integrative, plus:
- Assignable via a private patient link (no login)
- Results attributed to the issuing clinician
- Role-adapted report (clinician / individual)
- Per-episode component breakdown table
The science
The CCRT method was developed by Lester Luborsky (1998) as an empirically derived psychoanalytic construct — the first systematic, scorable extraction of core relational pattern from free narrative. Unlike projective instruments scored impressionistically, the CCRT uses a closed-category coding system validated across therapist training levels and correlated with independent measures of relational functioning.
The canonical reference is Luborsky & Crits-Christoph (1990), Understanding Transference. Our engine applies the standard CCRT category taxonomy (35 Wish, 30 Response of Other, and 31 Response of Self categories) with deterministic lexical rules — no probabilistic inference.