Over the past two decades, therapeutic alliance research has increasingly focused on understanding the process by which the alliance is ruptured and repaired. This paper is the first to explore how alliance rupture segments from psychotherapy sessions differ from non-rupture segments on key dimensions of the referential process. A sample of 27 psychotherapy sessions were scored using a measure designed to identify rupture from non-rupture segments. These segments were then scored for key linguistic dimensions of the referential process. During ruptures patients manifested a referential process marked by a decrease in emotional engagement, an increase in a measure of distancing, and an increase in negation as compared to non-rupture segments. Therapists show similar patterns but, in addition, manifest a language pattern that suggests that during ruptures, therapists are attempting to make sense of, and self-disclose, aspects of their inner experience. Implications for research and clinical work are explored.

在过去的二十年里，治疗联盟的研究越来越关注了解联盟破裂和修复的过程。本文首次探讨了心理治疗会议中的联盟破裂部分与非破裂部分在参考过程的关键维度上有何不同。使用旨在识别未破裂段的破裂的措施对 27 次心理治疗课程的样本进行评分。然后根据参考过程的关键语言维度对这些片段进行评分。在破裂期间，患者表现出一个参照过程，与非破裂段相比，其特点是情感投入减少，距离措施增加，否定增加。治疗师表现出类似的模式，但此外，表现出一种语言模式，表明在破裂期间，治疗师试图理解并自我披露他们内心体验的各个方面。探讨了对研究和临床工作的影响。