Computerized automated text and voice analysis - a single case study of seven chronically schizophrenia patients in art therapy (livopict)

This is an explorative monocentric art therapy study in the form of a quantitative single-case study (n-of-one-trial without baseline) in seven patients with chronic schizophrenia. The interventions consist of therapist-guided interviews with patients about their images, which are digitally recorded and analyzed using both text and voice analysis software. This dual study approach of digitized interviews allows correlations between the two portions of the recorded voice samples and forms the internal control in the study approach. The sample of seven patients with chronic schizophrenia (n=7), defined under inclusion and exclusion criteria, engaged in pictorial activity as part of their weekly group art therapy (non- invasive portion of the studies intervention: image creation, IC). In a one-on-one interview after three or four days, study participants were invited to talk with the author about the paintings they had created. An interview developed especially for the study served as a guide and, above all, as a standardized stimulus for the patients' statements (therapist-guided picture discussion, TGPD).