Tracking and especially comparing psychotherapeutic processes is a complex task involving a large number of individual and complexly related parameters. Therefore, descriptive and classical statistical methods are only suited for partial analyses. To overcome these limitations we introduce LinkVis, a new Information Visualization (InfoVis) tool used to visualize and evaluate psychotherapeutic processes. LinkVis is developed and clinically tested on the basis of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

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... ing anorectic girls. The user gets new insight into the data under investigation due to the combination of three different visualization techniques: scatterplots, Chernoff faces, and parallel coordinates. LinkVis supports exploring of complex timedependent data in order to gain more information about the psychotherapeutic process, especially when comparing different patients and groups.