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  The efficacy of transdiagnostic cognitive behavioural therapy on reducing negative affect, anxiety sensitivity and improving perceived control in children with emotional disorders - a randomized controlled trial

  Elham Qanbari Alaee, Omid Saed, Sahel Khakpoor, Reza Ahmadi, Mahsa Ali Mohammadi, Majid Yoosefi Afrashteh, Zekrolah Morovati

  2022-05-09

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.588

  3520

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• Clinical applications of the Defense Mechanisms Rating Scale-Self-Report-30: a systematic review of the first five years

  Gabriella Martino, Orlando Silvestro, Emanuele M. Merlo, Carmelo M. Vicario, Alessandro Meduri, Gianluca Lo Coco

  2025-12-31

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2025.881

  1109

  PDF: 352

  SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 124

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• 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

  2025-01-28

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

  5085

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  Psychological impairment in inflammatory bowel diseases: the key role of coping and defense mechanisms

  Gabriella Martino, Anna Viola, Carmelo Mario Vicario, Federica Bellone, Orlando Silvestro, Giovanni Squadrito, Peter Schwarz, Gianluca Lo Coco, Walter Fries, Antonino Catalano

  2023-12-31

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2023.731

  1763

  PDF: 857

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  An exploratory study on how attachment classifications manifest in group psychotherapy

  Alessandro Talia, Anna Georg, Björn Siepe, Salvatore Gullo, Madeleine Miller-Bottome, Jana Volkert, Corinne Neukel, Michael Kaess, Felix Bempohl, Sabine C. Herpertz, Svenja Taubner

  2022-11-04

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.653

  3249

  PDF: 837

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• Defense mechanisms and social mentalities in grandiose narcissism: an empirical investigation

  Annalisa Tanzilli, Marianna Liotti, Davide Guarino, Gabriele Lo Buglio, Francesco Dentale, Michele Vecchione, Vittorio Lingiardi

  2025-12-31

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2025.882

  739

  PDF: 262

  SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 147

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• Personality characteristics, music-listening, and well-being: a systematic and scoping review

  Chiara Rossi, Osmano Oasi, Barbara Colombo

  2024-03-25

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.742

  3214

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  Further reflections about the document: Psychotherapy for Anxiety and Depression: benefits and costs

  Franco Del Corno

  2017-07-13

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.283

  1579

  PDF: 710

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  Personal Projects Analysis as an idiographic approach in psychotherapy: an exploratory study

  Margarida Pedroso de Lima, Isabel Albuquerque, Paulo Jorge Martins, António-José Gonzalez

  2023-05-08

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2023.668

  1779

  PDF: 509

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• Revisiting defense mechanisms in contemporary clinical practice: evidence and perspectives

  Vittorio Lingiardi, Fabio Madeddu

  2025-12-22

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2025.877

  1129

  PDF: 700

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  The effect of positive psychotherapy in test anxiety among Zahedan students with hemophilia

  Mahbobe Ghavidel Heydari, Mahmoud Shirazi, Gholam Reza Sanagouyemoharer

  2018-04-12

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2018.307

  2292

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  Continuity and discontinuity between psychopathology of childhood and adulthood: a review on retrospective and prospective studies

  Immacolata Zarrella, Luigi Alessandro Russolillo, Giorgio Caviglia, Raffaella Perrella

  2017-07-06

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.248

  3221

  PDF: 1405

  HTML: 2076

• Applying the Defense Mechanisms Rating Scales Q-sort to assess patients’ level of overall defensive functioning in interview data: validity and reliability

  Mariagrazia Di Giuseppe, John Porcerelli, Alissa Huth-Bocks, Katie Aafjes-van Doorn

  2025-12-31

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2025.884

  652

  PDF: 294

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  Relational variables in short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy: an effectiveness study

  Annalisa Tanzilli, Michele Majorana, Laura Fonzi, Mauro Pallagrosi, Angelo Picardi, Maria Antonietta Coccanari de’ Fornari, Massimo Biondi, Vittorio Lingiardi

  2018-12-18

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2018.327

  2303

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  Negative and positive ageism in an Italian sample: how ageist beliefs relate to epistemic trust, psychological distress, and well-being

  Alice Fiorini Bincoletto, Ludovica Zanini, Grazia Fernanda Spitoni, Vittorio Lingiardi

  2023-07-27

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2023.676

  3044

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  The extended unconscious group field and metabolization of pandemic experience: dreaming together to keep cohesion alive

  Cristina Marogna, Chiara Masaro, Vincenzo Calvo, Simona Ghedin, Floriana Caccamo

  2022-12-29

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.646

  1392

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• 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

  2025-02-13

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

  2885

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  SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 759

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  Advancement in the child attachment interview and the child and adolescent reflective functioning scale using a PDM-2 framework: case reports

  Fabiola Bizzi, Francesca Locati, Laura Parolin, Shmueli Goetz Yael, Emanuela Brusadelli

  2022-03-04

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.586

  5103

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• Sense of meaning as a predictor of long-term therapy outcome in psychiatric inpatients: results of a one-year follow-up Meaning and long-term therapy outcome

  René Hefti, Daren Sunthareswarar, Thomas Wartenweiler, Harold Koenig, Michael Ackert

  2025-09-30

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2025.859

  403

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  Self-assessment of patterns of subjective experience: development and psychometric study of the States of Mind Questionnaire

  Bruno Faustino, António Branco Vasco, Giancarlo Dimaggio, Ana Nunes da Silva; Sophie Seromenho

  2021-01-20

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2020.465

  2024

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  Exploring maternal reflective functioning as a predictor of mother-child dyadic behaviour over time in a clinical context

  Lindsey Myers, Howard Steele, Miriam Steele, Anne Murphy

  2022-04-27

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.594

  2461

  PDF: 867

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• A supportive approach in psychodynamic-oriented psychotherapy. An empirically supported single case study.

  Daniela Di Riso, Antonello Colli, Daphne Chessa, Cristina Marogna, Valeria Condino, Adriana Lis, Vittorio Lingiardi, Stefania Mannarini

  49–89

  2011-05-18

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2011.43

  2167

  PDF: 5447
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  Dreaming in quarantine: linguistic analysis of referential process of dreams during COVID-19 pandemic lockdown

  Rachele Mariani, Silvia Monaco, Christopher Christian , Michela Di Trani

  2021-08-24

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2021.537

  3858

  PDF: 849

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  The clinical consequence of positive mental health in psychotherapy

  Mario Fulcheri, Danilo Carrozzino

  2017-07-13

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.280

  2061

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  Different epistemic stances for different traumatic experiences: implications for mentalization

  Ilaria Maria Antonietta Benzi, Nicola Carone, Laura Parolin, Gabriel Martin-Gagnon, Karin Ensink, Andrea Fontana

  2023-12-20

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2023.708

  2606

  PDF: 1159

  Supplementary Material: 170

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  A re-consideration of interpretation. A relational approach

  Zelda G. Knight

  2021-12-20

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2021.555

  2650

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  Italian validation of the Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation-10 (CORE-10): a short measure for routine outcome monitoring in clinical practice

  Antonino La Tona, Sofia Tagini, Agostino Brugnera, Barbara Poletti, Edoardo Nicolò Aiello, Gianluca Lo Coco, Lidia Del Piccolo, Angelo Compare

  2023-04-04

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2023.671

  2707

  PDF: 818

  Supplementary Material: 173

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  Impact of personality disorder comorbidity on cognitive-behavioral therapy outcome for mood and anxiety disorders: results from a university training clinic

  Christopher B. Harte, Raymond C. Hawkins II

  2016-10-19

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2016.210

  2967

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  Exploring the impacts of COVID-19 related social distancing on loneliness, psychological needs and symptomatology

  Bruno Faustino, António Branco Vasco, João Delgado, António Farinha-Fernandes, José Carlos Guerreiro

  2021-01-14

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2020.492

  3985

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  The psychological impact of COVID-19 on people suffering from dysfunctional eating behaviours: a linguistic analysis of the contents shared in an online community during the lockdown

  Gaia Albano, Rubinia Celeste Bonfanti, Salvatore Gullo, Laura Salerno, Gianluca Lo Coco

  2021-12-20

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2021.557

  2650

  PDF: 868

  Appendix: 179

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• Models of practice and training in psychotherapy: cross-national perspectives from Italy and Canada

  Victoria Klimkowski, Sofia McRae, Alexia Blick, Laurence Beaulieu, J. Reese S. Handley, Anara A. Hopley, Caroline A. Hyde, Devika M. Jain, Sylvia Kolodziejczyk, Josiane Laliberté, Alexa Lévesque, Lara M. Masri, Anya M. Monet, Reagan S. Nediu, Rachel Valihrach, Giorgio Tasca

  2024-03-14

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.732

  2238

  PDF: 803

  Supplementary Material: 258

  HTML: 50

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

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

  2024-08-26

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

  2478

  PDF: 443

  HTML: 157
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  A theoretical and clinical perspective of an embodied view in psychotherapy of somatic symptoms disorders

  Maria Eugenia Moneta, Horst Kaechele

  2023-08-25

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2023.605

  2403

  PDF: 853

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  The flip side of collaborative alliance: a single-case study

  Francesca Locati, Pietro De Carli, Margherita Lang, Laura Parolin

  2019-07-30

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2019.384

  1642

  PDF: 1218

  APPENDIX: 329

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  How anxious did you feel during lockdown? The roles resilience, living environment, and gender play on the level of anxiety state during pandemic isolation

  Violeta Stefania Rotărescu, Diana Bianca Matei, Ioana Alexandra Mircea, Andreea Maria Mirescu, Bogdan George Nedelescu, Daniela Georgiana Nedelea, Alexandra Nicoleta Raluca Neagu, Alexandru George Necșulescu, Gabriel Angelo Oteșanu, Lucian Constantin Tudor

  2021-01-14

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2020.496

  5453

  PDF: 1388

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• Change and sustained recovery in defense mechanisms and depression in a pilot study of antidepressant medications plus up to 18 months of psychotherapy for recurrent major depression

  John Christopher Perry, Claire J. Starrs, Trent Semeniuk, Elisabeth Banon, Ruta Westreich

  2025-12-31

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2025.885

  572

  PDF: 240

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

  Georgia J. Bush, Andrew F. Luchner

  2025-03-30

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

  3290

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  The relationship between epistemic stance, mentalizing, paranoid distress and conspiracy mentality: an empirical investigation

  Sophie Hauschild, Lea A. Kasper, Anna Berning, Svenja Taubner

  2023-12-28

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2023.706

  2071

  PDF: 726

  HTML: 79

• Childhood emotional maltreatment and internalizing problems in a non-clinical sample of adolescents: a moderated-mediation model of insecure anxious attachment style and gender

  Giorgio Falgares, Giulia Costanzo, Giovanna Manna, Dorian A. Lamis

  2024-06-24

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.745

  3163

  PDF: 1040

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• Impact of personality traits, coping styles, and anger on psychological symptoms of patients with arterial hypertension Psychological factors in arterial hypertension

  Francesca Giordano, Sara Guidotti, Clemente Salerno, Carlo Pruneti, Omar Carlo Gioacchino Gelo

  2025-07-31

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2025.867

  1299

  PDF: 587

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• The relationship between overall defensive functioning and the Personality Assessment Inventory borderline and treatment outcome scales

  Laura A. Richardson, John H. Porcerelli, Michelle Stein, Brynn DeLorenzo, Christina Massey, Emma Lindquist, Sarah McNamee, Mark Blais

  2025-12-31

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2025.883

  588

  PDF: 365

  HTML: 77

• In-session emotional experiencing in brief psychotherapy conducted by trainee psychologists: process, alliance, and the role of therapist persuasiveness

  Andreia Soares, Laura Ladislau, Ana Aleixo, João M. Santos, Daniel Sousa

  2026-04-29

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2026.891

  42

  PDF: 12

  SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 2
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  Facing the coronavirus pandemic era

  Emanuela Brusadelli, Christian Schubert, Silvia Salcuni

  2021-01-14

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2020.509

  2817

  PDF: 612

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• Le disfunzioni metacognitive nei disturbi di personalit Una review delle ricerche del III Centro di Psicoterapia Cognitiva

  Raffaele Popolo, Antonio Semerari, Antonino Carcione, Donatella Fiore, Giuseppe Nicolò, Laura Conti, Roberto Pedone, Michele Procacci, Stefania d'Angerio, Giancarlo Dimaggio

  217–240

  2011-02-22

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2010.19

  2475

  PDF: 4316
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  Reflective functioning and personal recovery process of users with borderline personality disorder on Instagram: an explorative study using computerized and thematic analysis

  Giovanna Esposito, Viviana Perla, Raffaella Passeggia, Erik Fertuck, Erhard Mergenthaler

  2021-01-18

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2020.463

  2480

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  Mentalization, attachment, and defense mechanisms: a Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual-2-oriented empirical investigation

  Annalisa Tanzilli, Mariagrazia Di Giuseppe, Guido Giovanardi, Tommaso Boldrini, Giorgio Caviglia, Ciro Conversano, Vittorio Lingiardi

  2021-03-29

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2021.531

  55014

  PDF: 3072

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  The relevance of social dreaming for action research: exploring jail workers’ unconscious thinking of the changes in the prison organization

  Lidia Borghi, Claudio Cassardo, Elisa Mingarelli, Elena Vegni

  2021-08-12

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2021.542

  6784

  PDF: 891

  HTML: 97

  Appendix: 305
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  Clinical profile, conversion rate, and suicidal thinking and behaviour in children and adolescents at ultra-high risk for psychosis: a theoretical perspective

  Maria Pontillo, Maria Cristina Tata, Roberto Averna, Prisca Gargiullo, Silvia Guerrera, Stefano Vicari

  2020-05-20

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2020.455

  1734

  PDF: 804

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  Measuring health-related quality of life measures in children: lessons from a pilot study

  Sarah Abraham, Elisabeth Edginton, David Cottrell, Sandy Tubeuf

  2022-05-09

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.581

  2564

  PDF: 759

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