Recent Posters and Presentations by Members of the Referential Process Research Group

Bucci, W., Ceccoli, V. and Galletto, D. (2016,  April) Tango and the Embodied Negotiation of Intersubjectivity. Willam Alanson White Institute and Society Colloquium.

Bucci, W. (2015, October) The Neurosciences and Psychoanalysis: From Freud’s Project for a Scientific Psychology to Contemporary Clinical Practice. Panel, New York State Psychoanalytic Association (NYSPA)

Maskit, B., Bucci, W. & Murphy, S. (2015, June). A Computer Program for Tracking the Evolution of a Psychotherapy Treatment. Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology: From Linguistic Signal to Clinical Reality, pages 134–145, Denver, Colorado, June 5, 2015. North American Association for Computational Linguistics.

Murphy, S., Maskit, B. & Bucci, W. (2015, June). Putting Feelings into Words: Cross-Linguistic Markers of the Referential Process. Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Computational Linguistics and Clinical Psychology: From Linguistic Signal to Clinical Reality, pages 80–88, Denver, Colorado, June 5, 2015. North American Association for Computational Linguistics.

Gottlieb, R., Hoffman, L. Bucci, W., Anderson, F. (2015, May) Comparing Repression and Dissociation: A Theoretical and Clinical Discussion. Panel, New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute

Bucci, W., Maskit, B., Negri, A., Mariani, R., De Coro, A. (2014, Sept & Oct.) Intensive Course on Referential Process in the Therapeutic Relationship; Instruments of Empirical Verification and Clinical Analysis of the Process. University of Bergamo, Italy

Maskit, B. & Bucci, W.  (2014, August) Assessment of Episodic Memory Using Computerized Measures of Referential Activity. Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, Chicago, IL.

Nelson, K.L., Murphy, S., Maskit, B., & Bucci, W.  (2014, August) Language Features of Event Descriptions: ThecRelationship of Narrativity to Episodic Memory Strength and Referential Activity. Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, Chicago, IL.


Maskit, B., Bucci, W. & Murphy, S. (2013, November) A new text analysis system and its application to episodic memory. Annual Meeting of the Society for Computers in Psychology, Toronto, Canada.


Bucci, W. ( 2012, Oct.) Multiple Levels of Interaction in Therapeutic Communication.  Paper presented at 17th Herbstakademie:  The Implications of Embodiment: Enactive, Clinical, Social. Heidelberg, Germany. 


Bucci, W. (2012, January). Multiple Code Theory as a bridge between psychotherapy and neuroscience. Workshop of the Neuroscience/Psychoanalysis Group, Annual Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Assn., New York, NY. 

Bucci, W. (2011, August) Language, Emotion and Health: New Advances in Referential Process Research. Presented at the American Psychological Assn. Annual Convention, Washington, D.C.

Murphy, Sean (2011, August) Theoretical Background and Properties of Measures of the Referential Process. Presented at the American Psychological Assn. Annual Convention, Washington, D.C.

Bucci, W. (Moderator), Crisafulli, G., Maskit, B., & Newirth, J. Diverse Clinical and Research Perspectives on the Trajectory of Change in a Client-Centered Treatment: Roger's Case of Miss Vib. Panel presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, Bern, Switzerland.

Mariani, R., De Coro, A., Maskit, B, & Bucci, W. (2011, June) Italian Measures of the Referential Process: Clinical and Linguistic Implications. Presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, Bern, Switzerland.

Maskit, B. & Bucci, W. (2011, June) The Case of Ms. Vib: Computer and Clinical Measures. Presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, Bern, Switzerland.

Murphy, S. (2011, June) The Language of Psychotherapy Process: Cross-Linguistic Markers of Narrative and Referential Activity Using the Linguistic Inquiry Word Count (LIWC). Presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, Bern, Switzerland.

Bucci, W. & Maskit, B. (2011, July) Measuring Referential Activity and the Referential Process: New approaches and some validation. Seminar talk at the Psychology Department, University of Erlangen.

Bucci, W., Crisafulli, G., Hart, A., Hoffman, L., Kolod, S., Maskit, B. & Newirth, J. (2011, January). Multiple Perspectives on the Treatment Process in a 9 Session Treatment. Panel presented at the RAAPA-PPRS Research Forum, Meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association, New York, NY.

Bucci, W., Maskit, B., Nelson, K. & Kingsley, G. (2010, June). Mechanisms of change: Narrative, episodic memory and the referential process. Panel presented at the 41st Annual Meeting of The Society for Psychotherapy Research, Asilomar, CA.

Tschacher, W., Pfammatter, M., Bucci, W. & Murphy, S. (2010, June). Basic processes and common factors in therapeutic change. Panel presented at the 41st Annual Meeting of The Society for Psychotherapy Research, Asilomar, CA.

Kahn, M., Murphy, S., Bucci, W. & Maskit, B. (2010, January). Linguistic markers of the psychotherapy process: The referential process and the linguistic inquiry word count. Poster session at the Midwinter meeting of the American Psychoanalytic Association, New York, NY. 

Bucci, W. (2009, August) How Does the Psychoanalytic Process Work? New Perspectives from Cognitive Science and Affective Neuroscience. Keynote Address, Conference with a Conference (CWC) American Psychological Association, Toronto.

Bucci, W., (2009, June) Identifying Impasse and Opportunity in the Therapeutic Interaction:The Referential Process in Research and Practice. Keynote, Division of Psychoanalysis (39) , APA, San Antonio Texas.

Bucci, W., Hoffman, L., Maskit, B. (2009, June) Using Process Notes to Explore Treatment Effectiveness and Changes in Theory and Technique over Five Decades in the Treatment Center of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. Annual meeting of Rapaport Klein Research Forum, Stockbridge, MA. June 2009

Bucci, W., Maskit, B. & Murphy, S. (2009, May). Measures of referential activity as indicators of episodic memory in different age groups and time contexts. Poster session at the Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention in San Francisco, CA.

Lewis, K., Murphy, S., & Hanakawa, Y. (2009, May). Uncovering episodic memory through linguistic measures in schizophrenia. Poster presentation at the Annual Convention of the Association of Psychological Science in San Francisco, California.

Nelson, K. & Polignano, M. (2009, May). Referential activity in negative episodic 'flashbulb' memories from patients. Poster session at the Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention in San Francisco CA. 


Maskit, B & Bucci, W. (2008, January) Computerized views of psychoanalytic treatments at increasing magnification, Presentation at the Research Associates of the American Psychoanalytic Association.

Campanelli, L. (2008, June). Acoustic analysis of the voice: An implicit measure of emotional communication in the psychotherapeutic exchange. Paper presented at the 39th SPR meeting in Barcelona, Spain.

Bucci, W. & Maskit, B. (2005). Objective discourse measures applied to psychoanalytic sessions. Poster Presented at the 17th Annual Convention of the American Psychological Society, May 2005.