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11068
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5777

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Donald J. Kiesler was affiliated with Virginia Commonwealth University in the United States. Throughout their academic career, they contributed to the scientific community as an active researcher.

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Best Publications

  • The 1982 Interpersonal Circle: A taxonomy for complementarity in human transactions

    Donald J. Kiesler

  • Some myths of psychotherapy research and the search for a paradigm.

    Donald J. Kiesler

  • Contemporary Interpersonal Theory and Research: Personality, Psychopathology, and Psychotherapy

    Donald J. Kiesler

  • Optimal matches of patient preferences for information, decision-making and interpersonal behavior: evidence, models and interventions.

    Donald J. Kiesler;Stephen M. Auerbach

  • The experiencing scales.

    Marjorie H. Klein;Philippa Mathieu-Coughlan;Donald J. Kiesler

  • Optimism, Satisfaction With Needs Met, Interpersonal Perceptions of the Healthcare Team, and Emotional Distress in Patients’ Family Members During Critical Care Hospitalization

    Stephen M. Auerbach;Donald J. Kiesler;Jennifer Wartella;Sarah Rausch

  • The process of psychotherapy

    Donald J. Kiesler

  • Integrating measurement of control and affiliation in studies of physician-patient interaction: the interpersonal circumplex.

    Donald J Kiesler;Stephen M Auerbach

  • Interpersonal complementarity and the therapeutic alliance: A study of relationship in psychotherapy.

    Donald J. Kiesler;Lucy M. Watkins

  • Psychometric and circumplex properties of the octant scale Impact Message Inventory (IMI-C) : A structural evaluation

    James A. Schmidt;Christopher C. Wagner;Donald J. Kiesler

  • Therapeutic metacommunication: Therapist impact disclosure as feedback in psychotherapy.

    Donald J. Kiesler

  • The 1982 interpersonal circle: An analysis of DSM-III personality disorders.

    Donald J. Kiesler

  • Therapist countertransference: in search of common themes and empirical referents.

    Donald J. Kiesler

  • Relation of diabetic patients' health-related control appraisals and physician-patient interpersonal impacts to patients' metabolic control and satisfaction with treatment.

    Stephen M Auerbach;John N Clore;Donald J Kiesler;Tamara Orr

  • Assessing the interpersonal transaction cycle: convergence of action and reaction interpersonal circumplex measures.

    Christopher C. Wagner;Donald J. Kiesler;James A. Schmidt

  • A circumplex inventory of impact messages: An operational bridge between emotion and interpersonal behavior.

    Donald J. Kiesler;James A. Schmidt;Christopher C. Wagner

  • An Interpersonal Communication Analysis of Relationship in Psychotherapy

    Donald J. Kiesler

  • Client-therapist complementarity: An analysis of the Gloria films.

    Donald J. Kiesler;Chesley S. Goldston

  • Interpersonal methods of assessment and diagnosis.

    Donald J. Kiesler

  • The Impact of Patient-Centered Information on Patients' Treatment Satisfaction and Outcomes in Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation.

    Phillip O. Pegg;Phillip O. Pegg;Stephen M. Auerbach;Ronald T. Seel;Luis F. Buenaver

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen M. Auerbach
Stephen M. Auerbach Virginia Commonwealth University
Stephen Nowicki
Stephen Nowicki Emory University
Joseph D. Matarazzo
Joseph D. Matarazzo Oregon Health & Science University

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