p. 4 : The purposes of this paper are twofold: 1) to describe the tools and techniques used in studying the psychotherapeutic interview, and 2) to introduce "sociophysiology," a new interdisciplinary area for research, an area which demonstrates the concomitant relationship between physiology and social behavior.

p. 5 : The results obtained in this area will be centered around four aspects of the psychiatric interview, involving sociophysiologic changes (1) of a patient during one interview, (2) of a given patient with different interviewers, (3) of a neurotic patient throughout the course of depth psychotherapy, and (4) of the psychiatrist treating this patient.