The Core Conflictual Relationship Theme (CCRT) method, developed by Lester Luborsky, identifies recurring relational patterns across a person's narratives about significant relationships. The method extracts three components from each relationship episode: the Wish (what the person wants from others), the Response from Other (how others are perceived to respond), and the Response of Self (how the person reacts).
What This Report Shows
The sample report demonstrates how Implicitify presents CCRT data: identified relationship episodes, coded wish/response components, frequency of recurring themes, dominant relational template, and clinical interpretation. The CCRT reveals the template a person brings to relationships — the pattern of expecting, perceiving, and reacting that tends to repeat across different relationships and contexts.
Clinical Significance
The CCRT is widely used in psychodynamic psychotherapy research and clinical practice. It provides a systematic, empirically grounded method for what clinicians have long done intuitively: identifying transference patterns. Research has demonstrated that CCRT themes are stable over time, predict therapeutic alliance, and change in measurable ways during successful psychotherapy. For clinicians, the CCRT report provides a data-driven starting point for formulation — not a replacement for clinical judgment, but a structured complement to it.