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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
    2180
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  • Some critical considerations about the document Psychotherapies for Anxiety and Depression: benefits and costs

    Nino Dazzi
    2017-07-13
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.281
    1251
    PDF: 628
    HTML: 88
  • 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
    2346
    PDF: 829
    HTML: 48
  • DreamSenseMemory - a Gestalt-based dream-work approach embracing all our senses

    Brigitte Holzinger, Franziska Nierwetberg; Larissa Cosentino; Lucille Mayer
    2021-08-24
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2021.529
    9040
    PDF: 2015
    HTML: 167
  • Carrying Jeremy Safran into sessions: relying on internal representations of researchers to facilitate emotion regulation, clinical intervention, and self-efficacy

    Cheri L. Marmarosh, Chiara Abbatelli, Molly Tulipan, Jasmine Kaleka, Jordan Ohanesian, Charlotte Howson
    2019-04-19
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2019.371
    1474
    PDF: 846
    HTML: 56
  • Intensive Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy: A Treatment Overview and Empirical Basis

    Allan Abbass, Joel M. Town, Ellen Driessen
    6-15
    2013-08-17
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2013.84
    3596
    PDF: 4491
  • Special issue: Research in child and adolescent psychotherapy

    Miriam Steele, Anna Maria Speranza
    2022-05-09
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.633
    1353
    PDF: 516
    HTML: 26
  • Italian adaptation of the brief modified experiences in close relationships scale in a sample of cancer patients: factor analysis and clinical implications

    Davide Ghirardello, Jacopo Munari, Silvia Testa, Riccardo Torta, Fabio Veglia, Cristina Civilotti
    2018-10-31
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2018.319
    2073
    PDF: 1099
    APPENDIX: 330
    HTML: 215
  • Key factors in psychotherapy training: an analysis of trainers’, trainees’ and psychotherapists’ points of view

    Diego Rocco, Alessandro Gennaro, Lorena Filugelli, Patrizia Squarcina, Elena Antonelli
    2019-12-19
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2019.415
    1781
    PDF: 1042
    HTML: 46
  • Detecting alliance ruptures: the effects of the therapist’s experience, attachment, empathy and countertransference management skills

    Corinne Talbot, Rose Ostiguy-Pion, Esther Painchaud, Claudelle Lafrance, Jean Descôteaux
    2019-04-19
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2019.325
    4276
    PDF: 2382
    HTML: 216
  • Giving words to emotions: the use of linguistic analysis to explore the role of alexithymia in an expressive writing intervention

    Alessia Renzi, Rachele Mariani, Michela Di Trani, Renata Tambelli
    2020-09-07
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2020.452
    2925
    PDF: 1044
    HTML: 44
  • Psychotherapy trainees’ epistemological assumptions influencing research-practice integration

    Attà Negri, Giovanbattista Andreoli, Luca Belotti, Arianna Barazzetti, E. Hale Martin
    2019-12-19
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2019.397
    2239
    PDF: 1599
    HTML: 91
  • Italian adaptation of the Group Questionnaire: validity and factorial structure

    Francesca Giannone, Cinzia Guarnaccia, Salvatore Gullo, Maria Di Blasi, Cecilia Giordano, Gianluca Lo Coco, Gary Burlingame
    2020-09-07
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2020.443
    1588
    PDF: 923
    HTML: 103
  • A randomized clinical trial of metacognitive therapy and nortriptyline for anxiety, depression, and difficulties in emotion regulation of patients with functional dyspepsia

    Sepideh Batebi, Abbas Masjedi Arani, Mahdi Jafari, Amir Sadeghi, Mohsen Saberi Isfeedvajani, Mohammad Hasan Davazdah Emami
    2020-09-17
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2020.448
    1753
    PDF: 944
    HTML: 96
  • A clinical heritage of empirical research. In memory of Jeremy Safran

    Vittorio Lingiardi, Daniela Gentile
    2019-07-30
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2019.416
    1229
    PDF: 847
    HTML: 28
  • An unavoidable bump: A meta-synthesis of psychotherapists’ experiences of navigating therapy while pregnant

    Carrie Way, Carolien Lamers, Renee Rickard
    2019-12-20
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2019.386
    1563
    PDF: 894
    HTML: 30
  • Emergency department and early detection of adolescents and young adults at risk of developing mental disorders: an exploratory study

    Marco Solmi, Foscarina Della Rocca, Vito Cianci, Alessandro Giacometti, Chiara Alexopulos, Umberto Granziol, Angela Favaro, Paolo Fusar-Poli, Miranda Zoleo, Carla Cremonese
    2020-09-18
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2020.459
    1696
    PDF: 701
    HTML: 34
  • Separation anxiety in a community sample of Italian emerging adults and its relationship with dimensions of borderline personality

    Giulia Bassi, Elisa Mancinelli, Daniela Di Riso, Adriana Lis, Silvia Salcuni
    2021-04-02
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2021.506
    13198
    PDF: 781
    HTML: 95
  • Relationships between emotional schemas, mindfulness, self-compassion and unconditional self-acceptance on the regulation of psychological needs

    Bruno Faustino, António Branco Vasco, Ana Nunes Silva, Telma Marques
    2020-09-17
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2020.442
    6340
    PDF: 2266
    HTML: 297
  • If you believe that breaking is possible, believe also that fixing is possible: a framework for ruptures and repairs in child psychotherapy

    Aviv Nof, Tohar Dolev, Liat Leibovich, Judith Harel, Sigal Zilcha-Mano
    2019-04-19
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2019.364
    2635
    PDF: 1676
    APPENDIX: 348
    HTML: 142
  • The legacy of Jeremy Safran

    Vittorio Lingiardi, Daniela Gentile
    2019-04-19
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2019.388
    1495
    PDF: 1038
    HTML: 133
  • 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
    1934
    PDF: 671
    HTML: 70
  • Episodes of meeting in psychotherapy: An empirical exploration of patients’ experiences of subjective change during their psychotherapy process

    Javiera Duarte, Claudio Martinez, Alemka Tomicic
    2020-05-21
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2020.440
    1630
    PDF: 813
    HTML: 54
  • Reductions in transdiagnostic factors as the potential mechanisms of change in treatment outcomes in the Unified Protocol: a randomized clinical trial

    Sahel Khakpoor, Jahangir Mohammadi Bytamar, Omid Saed
    2019-12-19
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2019.379
    2331
    PDF: 1215
    APPENDIX: 388
    HTML: 88
  • The Emergence of Innovative Moments in Narrative Therapy for Depression: Exploring Therapist and Client Contributions

    Carla Alexandra Castro Cunha, Joana Spìnola, Miguel M. Goncalves
    62-74
    2013-02-17
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2012.120
    3252
    PDF: 1959
  • Measuring Attachment and Reflective Functioning in Early Adolescence:An Introduction to the Friends and Family Interview

    Alexander Kriss, Howard Steele, Miriam Steele
    87-95
    2013-02-17
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2012.106
    3530
    PDF: 2292
  • My story in response to the stories of my patients’ experience of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic: a relational psychoanalytic approach

    Zelda Gillian Knight
    2021-01-14
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2020.490
    1605
    PDF: 672
    HTML: 20
  • Development and Characteristics of the Therapeutic Alliance in a Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy: A Descriptive Case Study

    Diego Rocco, Alessandro Gennaro, Francesco De Bei, Diego Zanelli, Valeria Condino
    33-41
    2013-08-17
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2013.152
    1610
    PDF: 835
  • Ruptures and repairs of group therapy alliance. An untold story in psychotherapy research

    Gianluca Lo Coco, Giorgio A. Tasca, Paul L. Hewitt, Samuel F. Mikail, Dennis M. Kivlighan, Jr.
    2019-04-19
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2019.352
    6288
    PDF: 3016
    HTML: 1192
  • When Therapists Do Not Know What to Do: Informal Types of Eclecticism in Psychotherapy

    Diego Romaioli, Elena Faccio
    10-21
    2012-10-13
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2012.92
    2286
    PDF: 2736
  • 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
    2415
    PDF: 713
    HTML: 101
  • Living under lockdown in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa: anxious voices from the unplanned shift to online therapy

    Zelda Gillian Knight
    2021-01-14
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2020.487
    3305
    PDF: 731
    HTML: 21
  • Construct validity of two measures of self-forgiveness in Portugal: a study of self-forgiveness, psychological symptoms, and well-being

    Liliana Costa, Everett L. Worthington, Jr., Cristina Cavadas Montanha, Ana Bela Couto, Carla Cunha
    2021-03-30
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2021.500
    12099
    PDF: 1084
    Appendix: 223
    HTML: 60
  • Introduction to the Special Section on “The Role of Psychotherapy Research in Psychotherapy Training: Mutual Influences and Relations”

    Francesco De Bei, Diego Rocco, Silvia Salcuni
    2019-12-19
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2019.438
    1118
    PDF: 803
    HTML: 28
  • Alliance challenges in the treatment of a narcissistic patient: the case of Alex

    Hemrie Zalman, Katie Aafjes-van Doorn, Catherine F. Eubanks
    2019-07-30
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2019.351
    2743
    PDF: 1537
    HTML: 561
  • A systematic review of psychotherapy research topics (2000-2016): a computer-assisted approach

    Alessandro Gennaro, Omar C. G. Gelo, Gloria Lagetto, Sergio Salvatore
    2019-12-20
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2019.429
    1668
    PDF: 952
    HTML: 24
  • Chronic suicidal ideations: a risk or a protection

    Elsa Ronningstam, Mark Schechter, Benjamin Herbstman, Mark Goldbalatt
    2024-06-19
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.764
    4881
    PDF: 929
    HTML: 66
  • By "Mike" Michael L. Baird, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11219680

    Using exercise to protect physical and mental health in youth at risk for psychosis

    Joseph Firth, Felipe Schuch, Vijay A. Mittal
    2020-05-20
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2020.433
    4368
    PDF: 1456
    HTML: 56
  • Oriented mentalization-based treatment for borderline personality disorder patients: preliminary results at Camposampiero Mental Health Center

    Stefano Carrera, Guia Pandolfi, Jee Yun Cappelletti, Walter Padoani, Silvia Salcuni
    2018-12-18
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2018.336
    1989
    PDF: 1445
    HTML: 230
  • Italia Ti Ascolto [Italy, I am listening]: an app-based group psychological intervention during the COVID-19 pandemic

    Laura Antonia Lucia Parolin, Ilaria Maria Antonietta Benzi, Erika Fanti, Alberto Milesi, Pietro Cipresso, Emanuele Preti
    2021-03-29
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2021.517
    10182
    PDF: 988
    HTML: 39
  • Introduction to the Special Section on Clinical High Risk for Mental Illness: Transdiagnostic Framework, Detection Strategies, Assessment, Treatment and Outcome

    Tommaso Boldrini, Marco Solmi
    2020-05-20
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2020.462
    1074
    PDF: 583
    HTML: 25
  • Free research contributions during pandemic period: research is still alive

    Silvia Salcuni, Vittorio Lingiardi
    2021-04-15
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2021.539
    12347
    PDF: 472
    HTML: 20
  • Ruptures, repairs, and reflections: contributions of Jeremy Safran

    Lisa Wallner Samstag, J. Christopher Muran
    2019-04-19
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2019.376
    2846
    PDF: 1493
    HTML: 37
  • You really are too kind: implications regarding friendly submissiveness in trainee therapists

    Lylli Cain, Hana Perkey, Sabina Widner, J. Aaron Johnson, Zachary Hoffman, Jenelle Slavin-Mulford
    2018-08-24
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2018.312
    1647
    PDF: 1073
    HTML: 101
  • DBT-informed treatment in a partial hospital and intensive outpatient program: the role of step-down care

    Kirk D. Mochrie, John Lothes II, Eric Guendner, Jane St. John
    2020-09-07
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2020.461
    2292
    PDF: 1042
    HTML: 88
  • Analysis of a dream series by the Dream Coding System developed by Ulrich Moser

    Gabriela Pap, Fritz Lackinger, Gerhard Kamp, Henriette Löffler-Stastka
    2021-08-24
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2021.538
    4909
    PDF: 892
    HTML: 103
  • Countertransference in Swedish psychotherapists: testing the factor structure of the Therapist Response Questionnaire

    Johan Berg, Lars-Gunnar Lundh, Fredrik Falkenström
    2019-01-17
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2019.331
    2415
    PDF: 1455
    HTML: 80
  • I am surrounded by death: death as a defining psychic issue within a relational psychoanalytic engagement and the impact of the therapist’s relationship with death

    Zelda Gillian Knight
    2019-07-30
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2019.385
    1249
    PDF: 830
    HTML: 1175
  • Going through the lockdown: a longitudinal study on the psychological consequences of the coronavirus pandemic

    Salvatore Gullo, Ilaria Misici, Arianna Teti, Michele Liuzzi, Enrico Chiara
    2021-01-20
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2020.494
    4361
    PDF: 1036
    SUPPLEMENTARY: 189
    HTML: 26
  • 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
    6597
    PDF: 758
    HTML: 91
    Appendix: 297
  • Trajectories of alliance ruptures in the psychotherapy of adolescents with borderline personality pathology: timing, typology and significance

    Nathalie Schenk, Ronan Zimmermann, Lukas Fürer, Mariane Krause, Sindy Weise, Michael Kaess, Susanne Schlüter-Müller, Klaus Schmeck
    2019-07-30
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2019.348
    2591
    PDF: 1553
    HTML: 369
  • The sister concepts of the working alliance and the real relationship: on their development, rupture, and repair

    Charles J. Gelso, Kathryn V. Kline
    2019-07-30
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2019.373
    3043
    PDF: 1661
    HTML: 318
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