Words were deleted from samples of patient speech obtained from initial psychiatric interviews and submitted to students for completion. Findings indicated that samples from the end of the interview were less predictable than those obtained from the beginning. The facts that change occurs within the context of a single interview and correlates with ratings of potential for psychotherapy made by the interviewers indicate that the cloze procedure is both sensitive and psychologically relevant to the psychotherapeutic process.
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