The study of therapist’s interpretive activity: The Grid of the Models of interpretations (GMI). A trans-theoretical method

This study was aimed at developing the GMI (Grid of the Models of Interpretations), a category system for measuring therapist interpreta- tions in transcripts of both cognitive and psychodynamic psychotherapies. Satisfactory agreement levels were found among the five raters used to test reliability. Moreover, the GMI-based description of interpretations in different clinical orientations appeared clinically meaningful. GMI promises to be helpful in analyzing interpretations in terms of case-specific and distinctive patterns.