Psychodynamic · Relational Pattern
CCRT (Core Conflictual Relationship Theme)
Dominant interpersonal style: Hostile-submissive
Across your 3 relationship episodes, this automated content analysis most often detected a wish to be loved and understood, others experienced as rejecting and opposing, and a self-response of disappointed and depressed. These themes approximate Luborsky's CCRT components from your own wording — a research-grade indication of relational patterns, not manual expert coding and not a clinical diagnosis.
Core Relational Triad
The Core Conflictual Relationship Theme reads as a chain — a wish, the response of others, and the response of self. Figures describe patterns within this respondent's own narratives; the method is administered here without a matched normative sample, so no percentile or standardized score is reported.
| Component | Detected | Leading theme | Interpersonal quadrant |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wish (W) | 1 | Be loved and understood | Friendly-submissive |
| Response of Other (RO) | 1 | Rejecting and opposing | Hostile-dominant |
| Response of Self (RS) | 1 | Disappointed and depressed | Hostile-submissive |
Wish (W). The Wish captures what this person tends to want or hope for from others. Across these 3 episodes, this component surfaced 1 time; its leading theme was “Be loved and understood” (top category: To be understood). On the interpersonal circumplex these moments fall in the Friendly-submissive quadrant.
Response of Other (RO). The Response of Other captures how other people are experienced as reacting. Across these 3 episodes, this component surfaced 1 time; its leading theme was “Rejecting and opposing” (top category: Are rejecting). On the interpersonal circumplex these moments fall in the Hostile-dominant quadrant.
Response of Self (RS). The Response of Self captures how this person tends to feel or react in turn. Across these 3 episodes, this component surfaced 1 time; its leading theme was “Disappointed and depressed” (top category: Feel disappointed). On the interpersonal circumplex these moments fall in the Hostile-submissive quadrant.
Per-Episode Breakdown
Component hits (Wish / Response of Other / Response of Self) and the dominant interpersonal quadrant for each relationship episode you described.
| Episode | W | RO | RS | Interpersonal | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | When I started a new job I wanted my manager to notice my effort and tell me I was doing well. I worked hard and hoped to be recognised and appreciated. But… |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Friendly-dominant | With my partner I wished to feel close and understood. I tried to open up and share how I was feeling, hoping to be accepted and reassured. They seemed busy… |
| 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | Hostile-submissive | I wanted my old friend to respect my decision and support me. I explained my choice and hoped they would understand. Instead they criticised me and dismissed… |
Underlying Content Indices
Raw counts and interpersonal-circumplex coordinates from which the triad above is derived.
| Relationship episodes | 3 |
| Component hits (W / RO / RS) | 1 / 1 / 1 |
| Mean agency (overall) | -0.33 |
| Mean communion (overall) | -1.33 |
| Dominant interpersonal quadrant | Hostile-submissive |
Interpretation
Read as a chain, the triad describes a recurring relational script: what this person tends to want (Wish), how others are experienced as responding (Response of Other), and how this person reacts in turn (Response of Self). Across these 3 episodes, the overall interpersonal style falls in the Hostile-submissive quadrant of the circumplex. The pattern reflects this respondent's own wording, not a comparison to any population.
A single session is indicative of a relational tendency in how this respondent narrates relationships — a research-grade signal, not a clinical diagnosis or a fixed-trait measurement.
Glossary
What the person tends to want, need, or hope for from others in a relationship episode.
How other people are experienced as reacting to that wish.
How the person tends to feel or react in turn.
A two-axis map of social behavior — agency (dominance vs. submission) by communion (warmth vs. coldness) — used to locate each component.
The two circumplex axes: agency is the dominance–submission dimension; communion is the warmth–hostility dimension.
A validated keyword-dictionary method that infers a relational theme from the language used in free text.
Method & Limitations
Scoring applies a deterministic 96-category keyword dictionary (35 Wish, 30 Response of Other, 31 Response of Self) to each sentence, then places each match on the Interpersonal Circumplex (agency × communion). This is an automated lexical approximation of the Luborsky CCRT method — not manual expert coding and not an AI/LLM judgment. No matched normative sample is administered here, so results are reported as within-respondent patterns, never as population percentiles.