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Research in Psychotherapy: Psychopathology, Process and Outcome (RIPPPO) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed journal published by the Italian Area Group of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR Italy Area Group). Its aim is to promote a fruitful communication between the Italian and International communities, enriching clinicians and researchers mutual collaboration. It welcomes high quality articles from any part of the world, concerning a variety of topics (e.g., psychotherapy process and outcome, diagnosis and assessment, psychopathology, etc.), with different formats (e.g., reviews, empirical studies, methodological works, clinical studies) and from different epistemological, theoretical and methodological perspectives of the contemporary research in psychotherapy.

• "Maybe you don’t know what answers I want": unresolved alliance ruptures preceding dropout in short-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy with depressed adolescents

  Manuela Jose Difronzo, Lisa Thackeray, Sally O'Keeffe, Ana Calderon, Nick Midgley

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2025.841

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• Defense mechanisms and inflammatory bowel diseases: a narrative review

  Orlando Silvestro, Carmelo M. Vicario, Ludovico Costa, Giorgio Sparacino, Trine Lund-Jacobsen, Chiara A. M. Spatola, Emanuele M. Merlo, Anna Viola, Concetto M. Giorgianni, Antonino Catalano, Walter Fries, Gianluca Lo Coco, Gabriella Martino

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2025.854

  1808

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• Coping with shame: the role of self-reflective capacities in perceiving others as empathic

  Georgia J. Bush, Andrew F. Luchner

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2025.824

  2016

  PDF: 865

• What do you expect from psychological care? A qualitative study of depressed patients’ expectations treated in mental healthcare settings Depressed patients' psychological care expectations

  Ana Karina Zúñiga Caiseo, Guillermo De la Parra, Lucía Núñez, Mariane Krause

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2025.839

  1946

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• Trans in treatment: a mixed-method systematic review on the psychotherapeutic experiences of transgender and gender diverse people Transgender people’s experiences of psychotherapy

  Selene Mezzalira, Nicola Carone, Vincenzo Bochicchio, Sofia Villani, Gianluca Cruciani, Maria Quintigliano, Cristiano Scandurra

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2025.834

  2347

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  SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 616

• District Functional Unit for Adolescents 2022: a pilot project in Italy to detect mental health strengths and difficulties among youth

  Renan Göksal, Silvia Salcuni, Giulia Marino, Matteo Paduanello, Guido De Renoche

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2025.831

  2019

  PDF: 795

  SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 633

• Differentiating self-disclosure interventions from self-involving interventions based on the assessment of the short-term therapeutic effects: preliminary results

  Fabio Monticelli, Chiara Massullo, Antonino Carcione, Lucia Tombolini, Flaminia Guerra, Marianna Liotti, Cecilia Monticelli, Elena Gasperini, Marianna Russo, Samanta Novaretto, Letizia La Vista, Paola Mallozzi, Claudio Imperatori, Chiara Del Brutto, Benedetto Farina

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2025.800

  2484

  PDF: 1329

• Transference-focused psychotherapy in an inpatient setting for borderline personality disorders: changes in symptomatology

  Torvi Abel, Moritz Happel, Franca Daerr, Carsten Spitzer, Cord Benecke, Birger Dulz

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2025.810

  3708

  PDF: 1044

• The relationship among attachment styles, interpersonal needs, and suicidal ideation in patients with psychiatric disorders

  Salvatore Sarubbi, Elena Rogante, Denise Erbuto, Monica Migliorati, Isabella Berardelli, Marco Innamorati, Maurizio Pompili

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.785

  1900

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• Suicidality and self-compassion in patients with major depressive disorder: the mediating role of the avoidant attachment type

  Vasiliki Yotsidi, Charis Ntakolia, Ioanna Rannou , Pilios-Dimitris Stavrou, Panagiotis Ferentinos, Athanasios Douzenis, Nikolaos Smyrnis, Efthimia Gavriilidou, Rossetos Gournellis

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.826

  2096

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• The role of suicidal motivations in adolescence: implications for the psychotherapeutic treatment of suicidal risk

  Maria Pia Casini, Marta Moselli, Alice Wisniewski, Riccardo Williams

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.833

  1754

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• The problem of suicidality, personality disorder, and treatment: an alternative psycho-social perspective

  Marco Chiesa

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.779

  1733

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• Something has sort of opened up for me: psychology students’ reflections after participating in an apprenticeship training model

  Nina Jakhelln Laugen, Torun Grøtte, Truls Ryum, Patrick A. Vogel, Heidi Brattland, Katrine Høyer Holgersen

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.794

  2282

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• Psychological interventions in the Italian national health system: appropriateness and accountability

  Alessandro Ridolfi

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.820

  1670

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• Facilitative interpersonal skills in benign versus challenging therapy situations in trainee therapists: a pilot study

  Kim de Jong, Johanna Wilkens, Timothy Anderson, Kane Steggles

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.804

  2048

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