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Abstract
Conceptual recurrence plotting (CRP) is a text analysis and visualization technique to analyze dynamics from a single conversation. This technique has been applied to various types of conversational settings, but its utility in analyzing psychotherapy transcripts has not been fully explored yet. To call researchers' attention to this innovative methodology, this exploratory study demonstrated how CRP can capture conversational dynamics from psychotherapy transcripts. The researcher selected and analyzed three psychotherapy transcripts from APA Psychotherapy Video Series listed in PsycTHERAPY, exploring their qualitative features revealed by CRP. The results from this study suggest that CRP was able to depict some important therapeutic dynamics, such as dominance in conversation or revisiting earlier concepts. Their corresponding quantitative features were also explored using MPR (Multi-Participant Recurrence) metrics, which demonstrated its utilities and limitations. The implications of this study in research and training settings were discussed in the end.