Just published online in open access: A new study, "Empathic Conjectures in Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFCT): A
Process Microanalytic Study," by Hamed Fatahian-Tehran, Simran Chatha & me. In the Journal of Marital & Family Therapy.
This was a fun project, initiated when Hamed and Simran each separately approached me about doing a research project on EFT. What transpired was an analysis of 12 sessions of Emotionally-Focused Couples Therapy available for training purposes. We decided to study empathic conjectures (therapist responses that guess about previously unspoken client experiences), focusing on characteristics that define empathic conjectures and identifying different types of empathic conjectures. This basically a new type of therapy process research, which we decided to call "Process Microanalysis." I'm hoping that others will take up this approach, replicating and extending our results and applying it to other types of EFT therapist response.
Fatahian-Tehran, H.M., Chatha, S. and Elliott, R. (2025), Empathic Conjectures in Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFCT): A Process Microanalytic Study. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 51: e70075. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmft.70075
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