Wilma Bucci
Biographic Data
| ID | 994792 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wilma Bucci |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wilma |
| FAMILY NAME | Bucci |
| SIGNATURE | BUCCI W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Adelphi University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2751-475X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 153 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Modes of expression in the therapeutic discourse: A multiple code account.
Introduction to the Issue: Advances in Theory and Research on Multiple Code Theory and the Referential Process
This issue is based on a conference that was held in July 2023 and that focused on new advances in the theory and measures of the Referential Process (RP). The concept of the RP was developed in the context of the Multiple Code Theory (MCT) and concerns the complex process by which people are able to connect all manner of experiences, including bodily and emotional experience, to words, in both spoken and written language. A previous issue of thi…
Concluding Notes—Looking Back; Looking Forward
This summary paper provides a brief review of major contributions in a group of papers that were collected to honor the work of Bernard Maskit, who died in March 2024. Professor Maskit was a mathematician who contributed major theoretical and methodological advances in the study of multiple code theory and the referential process. Each of the papers in this issue incorporate applications of his ideas and the new measures that he developed. The ap…
Remembering Dr. Bernard Maskit
A Journey Through the Land of Daap: Including Visits to Weighted Dictionaries, Smoothing, Covariations, and the Effects of Word Order, with Connections to Psychology, Psycholinguistics, Mathematics an…
This is a condensed version of a series of talks given by Bernard Maskit at the Referential Process Workshop Conference, at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (July, 2023). Dr. Maskit discusses the Discourse Attributes Analysis Program (DAAP) which he created to evaluate psychotherapy and other texts utilizing measures of the Referential Process, a theory developed in the context of multiple code theory (Bucci in Psychoanalysis and…
Clinical and Research Perspectives on the Therapeutic Conversation: The Case of MS. M
This paper presents a collaboration between a clinician (C.M.J.) and a research team (W.B., B.M., and S.M.) to address the question: At an operational level, what happens in the special form of conversation that is psychotherapy? How can we study, beyond a priori lenses of psychoanalytic models, what we are actually doing when we engage in this process? How can we capture from the linear flow of conversation, the simultaneous, complex, active, in…
Locating Nodal Moments Within Psychotherapy Sessions: A Mixed-Methods Study Using a Computerized Measure and Therapist Comments
The Effects of Story-Telling on Emotional Experience: An Experimental Paradigm
Referntial Activity as a Measure of Episodic Memory
Narrativity and Referential Activity Predict Episodic Memory Strength in Autobiographical Memories
Concluding Notes and Future Directions
Overview of the Referential Process: The Operation of Language Within and Between People
Development of WRRL: A New Computerized Measure of the Reflecting/Reorganizing Function
Development and validation of measures of referential activity
Linguistic Measures of the Therapeutic Process in Carl Rogers's Case of Miss Vib
Names and naming of an African American author: "Implications for race, power, and privilege": Commentary: Letter from the editors
Treatment Notes: Objective Measures of Language Style Point to Clinical Insights
Application of a computerized text analysis procedure is proposed that has the potential for use by psychoanalytic and psychodynamic clinicians: the systematic examination of linguistic style as reflected by clinicians in their ongoing process and case notes, which are ubiquitous in the mental health field. The studies reported here are, as far as is known, the first attempts to study treatment notes systematically using such procedures. Linguist…
Is there Language Disconnected from Sensory/Bodily Experience in Speech or Thought? Commentary on Vivona
The role of subjectivity and intersubjectivity in the reconstruction of dissociated schemas; converging perspectives from psychoanalysis, cognitive science and affective neuroscience
The Language of Anorexia Nervosa: Implications for the “Talking Cure”
Evaluation of Psychoanalytic Treatment Notes Using Language and Theme Measures
It's Hard To Say: The Challenge of Connecting Emotions and Language for First-Time Mothers
Do Mothers of Secure Infants Speak Differently Than Mothers of Avoidant Infants in Natural Conversations? An Interpersonal Exploration of Language Differences
Beneath the Surface of the Therapeutic Interaction: The Psychoanalytic Method in Modern Dress
This study represents a new generation of psychotherapy process research, using multiple perspectives on the data of the analytic situation, including impressions of the treating analyst, ratings of complete sessions by clinical judges, and objective linguistic measures. Computerized measures of language style developed in the framework of multiple code theory were applied to verbatim session recordings from a psychoanalytic case; the measures ar…
Varieties of dissociative experiences: A multiple code account and a discussion of Bromberg's case of "William"
Linking verbal and non‐verbal representations: Computer analysis of referential activity
The objective of this study was to develop a computer assisted procedure to model the Referential Activity scales as scored by raters. Referential Activity is defined as the function of connecting non‐verbal experience with language. Using a large text corpus that had been rated by experienced and reliable judges, extreme samples from both ends of the Referential Activity Scales were selected. The Characteristic Vocabularies for each of these cor…
Dual Coding: A Cognitive Model for Psychoanalytic Research
Four theories of mental representation derived from current experimental work in cognitive psychology have been discussed in relation to psychoanalytic theory. These are: verbal mediation theory, in which language determines or mediates thought; perceptual dominance theory, in which imagistic structures are dominant; common code or propositional models, in which all information, perceptual or linguistic, is represented in an abstract, amodal code…
Beneath the Surface of the Therapeutic Interaction: The Psychoanalytic Method in Modern Dress
This study represents a new generation of psychotherapy process research, using multiple perspectives on the data of the analytic situation, including impressions of the treating analyst, ratings of complete sessions by clinical judges, and objective linguistic measures. Computerized measures of language style developed in the framework of multiple code theory were applied to verbatim session recordings from a psychoanalytic case; the measures ar…
Pathways of Emotional Communication
The phenomena that have been characterized clinically as "unconscious communication" may be accounted for systematically as emotional communication, which occurs both within and outside of awareness. The new formulation is based on current work in cognitive science, extended to account for emotional information processing, not information processing alone, and emphasizes the structure and organization of the multiple modalities of mental processi…
Overview of the Referential Process: The Operation of Language Within and Between People
Development of WRRL: A New Computerized Measure of the Reflecting/Reorganizing Function
Patterns of Discourse in “Good” and Troubled Hours: A Multiple Code Interpretation
Multiple code theory is a theory of psychological organization, which is rooted in current research in the areas of cognitive psychology, emotion, and development; it accounts for adaptive functions as well as pathology. The theory incorporates Freud's seminal discovery of modes of thought outside the conscious, rational mode, but recognizes three rather than two forms: subsymbolic nonverbal, symbolic nonverbal, and symbolic verbal. Computer-assi…
Development and validation of measures of referential activity
The Penn Psychoanalytic Treatment Collection: A Set of Complete and Recorded Psychoanalyses as a Research Resource
From a set of seventeen complete and tape-recorded psychoanalyses, a sample of findings is presented: (a) the level of agreement of two clinical judges on the psychological health of these patients is adequate for the late sessions, but not for the early sessions; (b) the amount of change during psychoanalysis appears to be similar to that in the Menninger Foundation Psychotherapy Research Project; (c) psychiatric severity measures from the early…
A Journey Through the Land of Daap: Including Visits to Weighted Dictionaries, Smoothing, Covariations, and the Effects of Word Order, with Connections to Psychology, Psycholinguistics, Mathematics an…
This is a condensed version of a series of talks given by Bernard Maskit at the Referential Process Workshop Conference, at the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (July, 2023). Dr. Maskit discusses the Discourse Attributes Analysis Program (DAAP) which he created to evaluate psychotherapy and other texts utilizing measures of the Referential Process, a theory developed in the context of multiple code theory (Bucci in Psychoanalysis and…
Treatment Notes: Objective Measures of Language Style Point to Clinical Insights
Application of a computerized text analysis procedure is proposed that has the potential for use by psychoanalytic and psychodynamic clinicians: the systematic examination of linguistic style as reflected by clinicians in their ongoing process and case notes, which are ubiquitous in the mental health field. The studies reported here are, as far as is known, the first attempts to study treatment notes systematically using such procedures. Linguist…
Toward a “Psychodynamic Science”: The State of Current Research
Biological and Integrative Studies on Affect
Linguistic Measures of the Therapeutic Process in Carl Rogers's Case of Miss Vib
The effects of menstrual cycle hormones on dreams
On kinetic filtering in associative monologue
Clinical and Research Perspectives on the Therapeutic Conversation: The Case of MS. M
This paper presents a collaboration between a clinician (C.M.J.) and a research team (W.B., B.M., and S.M.) to address the question: At an operational level, what happens in the special form of conversation that is psychotherapy? How can we study, beyond a priori lenses of psychoanalytic models, what we are actually doing when we engage in this process? How can we capture from the linear flow of conversation, the simultaneous, complex, active, in…
The Language of Anorexia Nervosa: Implications for the “Talking Cure”
On the development of communicative competence
The structure and language of a silence
Language and hand: The dimension of referential competence1
Kinesic and verbal performance data were collected for two groups of women college seniors chosen to represent extremes in a type of verbal ability termed here referential competence. This ability is conceptualized in terms of degree of integration of symbolic and ikonic representation systems, i.e., the strength of the symbol-referent links in semantic memory. A criterion measure of referential competence was developed using deviation of color n…
On kinetic filtering in associative monologue
The structure and language of a silence
Dual Coding: A Cognitive Model for Psychoanalytic Research
Four theories of mental representation derived from current experimental work in cognitive psychology have been discussed in relation to psychoanalytic theory. These are: verbal mediation theory, in which language determines or mediates thought; perceptual dominance theory, in which imagistic structures are dominant; common code or propositional models, in which all information, perceptual or linguistic, is represented in an abstract, amodal code…
On the development of communicative competence
Cyclical Changes in Emotional Information Processing in Sleep and Dreams
Our scientific tools have rapidly advanced in recent decades. Urine tests and hormone assays allow us to know exactly where a woman is in her menstrual cycle and to document precisely her hormonal rhythms. Sleep-laboratory techniques allow us to know exactly when someone is dreaming so that we can obtain that communication that Freud prized so highly. Furthermore, we now have quantifiable means to measure accessibility to nonverbal mental represe…
The Language of Love: The Semantics of Passion in Conversational English.(Book)
(1989). The Language of Love: The Semantics of Passion in Conversational English.(Book) Metaphor and Symbolic Activity: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 65-69
The effects of menstrual cycle hormones on dreams
Two methods of assessing unconscious communication in psychotherapy.
Two methods of assessing unconscious communication in psychotherapy
Two methods of assessing unconscious communication in psychotherapy
Commentaries
Patterns of Discourse in “Good” and Troubled Hours: A Multiple Code Interpretation
Multiple code theory is a theory of psychological organization, which is rooted in current research in the areas of cognitive psychology, emotion, and development; it accounts for adaptive functions as well as pathology. The theory incorporates Freud's seminal discovery of modes of thought outside the conscious, rational mode, but recognizes three rather than two forms: subsymbolic nonverbal, symbolic nonverbal, and symbolic verbal. Computer-assi…
Beyond symbolizing: A response to Bornstein’s review
Linking verbal and non‐verbal representations: Computer analysis of referential activity
The objective of this study was to develop a computer assisted procedure to model the Referential Activity scales as scored by raters. Referential Activity is defined as the function of connecting non‐verbal experience with language. Using a large text corpus that had been rated by experienced and reliable judges, extreme samples from both ends of the Referential Activity Scales were selected. The Characteristic Vocabularies for each of these cor…
The need for a "psychoanalytic psychology" in the cognitive science field.
The need for a "psychoanalytic psychology" in the cognitive science field
Cognitive science has incorporated seminal concepts of psychoanalysis without acknowledging this influence. This article covers psychoanalytic ideas already incorporatedimplicitly or explicitly-in modern cognitive psychology, as well as ideas whose inclusion would benefit the cognitive field. These include the emphasis on mental models, mind-body interaction, unconscious processes, dual processes of thought, and naturalistic research milieus. The…
Biological and Integrative Studies on Affect
The Penn Psychoanalytic Treatment Collection: A Set of Complete and Recorded Psychoanalyses as a Research Resource
From a set of seventeen complete and tape-recorded psychoanalyses, a sample of findings is presented: (a) the level of agreement of two clinical judges on the psychological health of these patients is adequate for the late sessions, but not for the early sessions; (b) the amount of change during psychoanalysis appears to be similar to that in the Menninger Foundation Psychotherapy Research Project; (c) psychiatric severity measures from the early…
Toward a “Psychodynamic Science”: The State of Current Research
Pathways of Emotional Communication
The phenomena that have been characterized clinically as "unconscious communication" may be accounted for systematically as emotional communication, which occurs both within and outside of awareness. The new formulation is based on current work in cognitive science, extended to account for emotional information processing, not information processing alone, and emphasizes the structure and organization of the multiple modalities of mental processi…
The challenge of diversity in modern psychoanalysis.
The challenge of diversity in modern psychoanalysis
Varieties of dissociative experiences: A multiple code account and a discussion of Bromberg's case of "William"
It's Hard To Say: The Challenge of Connecting Emotions and Language for First-Time Mothers
Psychology (44 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (22 works) · Psychotherapist (21 works) · Psychoanalysis (19 works) · Computer Science (18 works) · Cognition (17 works) · Cognitive psychology (16 works) · Linguistics (15 works) · Psycholinguistics (13 works) · Psychoanalytic theory (12 works)