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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
    1353
    PDF: 531
    SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 224
    HTML: 113
  • Validation of the client satisfaction questionnaire: a pilot psychometric analysis in Portuguese routine practice

    Sara Silva, Isabel Basto, João Salgado, Carla Cunha
    2023-07-27
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2023.687
    3579
    PDF: 1379
    HTML: 101
  • 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
    7091
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    HTML: 1260
  • Effectiveness is the gold standard of clinical research

    Francesco Gazzillo, Adriano Schimmenti, Ivan Formica, Alessandra Simonelli, Sergio Salvatore
    2017-07-13
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.278
    2669
    PDF: 1444
    HTML: 644
  • A systematic review of patient-therapist synchrony as an indicator of emotion regulation in psychotherapy: an integrated approach Patient-therapist synchrony and emotion regulation

    Federica Ameli, Federico Abbarchi Minucci, Ludovica Zanini, Gioele Calmi, Grazia Fernanda Spitoni
    2025-09-30
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2025.866
    1324
    PDF: 883
    SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 260
    HTML: 63
  • Motivations to become psychotherapists: beyond the concept of the wounded healer

    Gianluca Cruciani, Marianna Liotti, Vittorio Lingiardi
    2024-08-26
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.808
    9131
    PDF: 3396
    HTML: 953
  • 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
    4208
    PDF: 959
    HTML: 22
  • Coping strategies and mental health: A web-based survey among the Italian population dealing with COVID-19

    Chiara Rossi, Francesca De Salve, Martina Agliati, Osmano Oasi
    2022-07-01
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.609
    3780
    PDF: 1400
    HTML: 189
  • 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
    5255
    PDF: 1056
    HTML: 110
  • 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
    2025-03-26
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2025.839
    3450
    PDF: 1280
    HTML: 11
  • 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
    2018
    PDF: 626
    HTML: 33
  • 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
    4855
    PDF: 2723
    HTML: 240
  • Dreaming during the COVID-19 lockdown: a comparison of Italian adolescents and adults

    Massimiliano Sommantico, Ilaria Iorio, Marina Lacatena, Santa Parrello
    2021-08-12
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2021.536
    5528
    PDF: 753
    HTML: 88
  • The role of oxytocin as an indicator of outcome and therapeutic alliance

    Chiara Durante, Giulia Di Vincenzo, Alessandra Minutoli, Giampaolo Nicolais, Valeria Carola
    2025-06-24
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2025.842
    1398
    PDF: 875
    HTML: 14
  • Adolescents’ experiences of psychotherapy following child sexual abuse

    Rosaleen McElvaney, Andrina Monaghan, Christina Treacy, Naoise Delaney
    2023-07-04
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2023.630
    2799
    PDF: 1193
    HTML: 107
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    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
    5139
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    HTML: 63
  • 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
    2024-08-27
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.794
    3090
    PDF: 657
    HTML: 185
  • Professional burnout in therapists working with LGBTQ+ patients: associations with defenses and reflective functioning

    Gianluca Cruciani, Jacopo Tracchegiani, Maria Quintigliano, Selene Mezzalira, Cristiano Scandurra, Nicola Carone
    2025-12-31
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2025.880
    1230
    PDF: 679
    HTML: 90
  • Attachment styles, mental health, and trauma during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic in an Italian adult population

    Elena Ierardi, Marta Bottini, Emanuele Preti, Rossella Di Pierro, Fabio Madeddu, Cristina Riva Crugnola
    2023-12-31
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2023.689
    1511
    PDF: 674
    HTML: 51
  • Esoteric power, useless, useful: considerations about dreams in cognitive-behavioural therapy

    Antonino Carcione, Marta Santonastaso, Francesca Sferruzza, Ilaria Riccardi
    2021-08-30
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2021.543
    3791
    PDF: 1295
    HTML: 135
  • The role of suicidal motivations in adolescence: implications for the psychotherapeutic treatment of suicidal risk

    Maria Pia Casini, Marta Moselli, Alice Wisniewski, Riccardo Williams
    2024-12-04
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.833
    2711
    PDF: 579
    HTML: 11
  • 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
    10639
    PDF: 1104
    HTML: 47
  • Metacognitive interpersonal therapy in group: a feasibility study

    Raffaele Popolo, Angus MacBeth, Stefano Brunello, Flaviano Canfora, Ercan Ozdemir, Daniela Rebecchi, Cecilia Toselli, Gloria Venturelli, Giampaolo Salvatore, Giancarlo Dimaggio
    2018-12-18
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2018.338
    3585
    PDF: 1602
    HTML: 83
  • Developing relational competence in psychotherapy training: a qualitative study of trainees’ perspectives

    Giovanna Trimoldi, Marco Sambin, Pietro Spataro, Giulia Gagliardini, Irene Messina
    2026-04-22
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2026.890
    1416
    PDF: 515
    HTML: 176
  • Dreaming during lockdown: a quali-quantitative analysis of the Italian population dreams during the first COVID-19 pandemic wave

    Lidia Borghi, Federica Bonazza, Giulia Lamiani, Alessandro Musetti, Tommaso Manari, Maria Filosa, Maria C. Quattropani, Vittorio Lenzo, Maria Francesca Freda, Daniela Lemmo, Emanuela Saita, Roberto Cattivelli, Gianluca Castelnuovo, Elena Vegni, Christian Franceschini
    2021-08-24
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2021.547
    4465
    PDF: 1059
    HTML: 106
  • Defense mechanisms in adolescents at high risk of developing psychosis: An empirical investigation

    Tommaso Boldrini, Gabriele Lo Buglio, Guido Giovanardi, Vittorio Lingiardi, Silvia Salcuni
    2020-05-20
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2020.456
    4732
    PDF: 1465
    HTML: 150
  • 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
    1063
    PDF: 472
    HTML: 81
  • 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
    10299
    PDF: 2241
    HTML: 182
  • What is therapeutic? Analysis of the narratives available on the websites of Italian addiction rehab centres to present the therapeutic programme

    Elena Faccio, Ludovica Aquili, Michele Rocelli
    2022-09-01
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.613
    3902
    PDF: 981
    HTML: 25
  • Developing an assessment of epistemic trust: a research protocol

    Paul Schröder-Pfeifer, Alessandro Talia, Jana Volkert, Svenja Taubner
    2018-12-18
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2018.330
    4578
    PDF: 2086
    HTML: 2093
  • Dysfunctional personality traits: relationship with Five Factor Model, adaptation and symptomatology in a community sample from Buenos Aires

    Juliana Beatriz Stover, Alejandro Castro Solano, Mercedes Fernández Liporace
    2019-07-30
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2019.343
    2168
    PDF: 1220
    HTML: 488
  • Balancing clinical risk with countertransference management protects alliance

    Joào F. Barreto, Paula Mena Matos
    2017-10-27
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.279
    2409
    PDF: 1577
    HTML: 480
  • 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
    3033
    PDF: 978
    Supplementary Material: 222
    HTML: 46
  • The perception of the illness and the self-efficacy in the management of emotions in cardiac patients

    Cristina Marogna, Sofia Elena Russo, Floriana Caccamo, Alessandro Pinton, Vito Sava, Roberto Carlon
    2018-10-31
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2018.310
    1692
    PDF: 1046
    HTML: 112
  • The association of interpersonal distress with negative mental health outcomes in people with a diagnosed anxiety disorder: a meta-analytic review

    Malenka Areas, Cristoph Flückiger, Juan Martín Gómez Penedo
    2026-07-01
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2026.894
    195
    PDF: 93
    HTML: 7
  • Assessing personality change with Blatt's anaclitic and introjective configurations and Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure profiles: two case studies in psychodynamic treatment

    Osmano Oasi, Laura Buonarrivo, Alberto Codazzi, Margherita Passalacqua, Gio Matteo Risso Ricci, Francesca Straccamore, Roberto Bezzi
    2017-04-19
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.231
    2961
    PDF: 1229
    HTML: 856
  • Psychological and physiological effects of emotion focused training for self-compassion and self-protection

    Júlia Halamová, Jana Koróniová, Martin Kanovský, Mária Kénesy Túniyová, Nuriye Kupeli
    2019-07-30
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2019.358
    3566
    PDF: 1858
    APPENDIX: 464
    HTML: 128
  • Therapists’ defense use impacts their patients’ defensive functioning: a systematic case study

    Mariagrazia Di Giuseppe, Katie Aafjes-van Doorn, Vera Békés, Bernard S. Gorman, Karl Stukenberg, Sherwood Waldron
    2024-08-23
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.797
    3486
    PDF: 804
    HTML: 64
  • From turn-by-turn to larger chunks of talk: An exploratory study in psychotherapeutic micro-processes using conversation analysis

    Michael B. Buchholz, Horst Kächele
    2017-10-27
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.257
    2484
    PDF: 1354
    HTML: 450
  • 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
    1924
    PDF: 1090
    HTML: 116
  • The person behind the therapist: a recall study on significant events that contribute to therapists’ personal and professional development

    Hubert de Condé, Emmanuelle Zech, Jochem Willemsen
    2024-08-29
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.791
    9946
    PDF: 1677
    HTML: 102
  • Validation and psychometric properties of the Italian version of the Power Behavioural System Scale

    Sara Salzano, Isa Zappullo, Vincenzo Paolo Senese, Massimiliano Conson, Carmela Finelli, Mario Mikulincer, Phillip R. Shaver
    2023-02-03
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2023.617
    2556
    PDF: 859
    Appendix: 282
    HTML: 53
  • 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
    5698
    PDF: 1493
    HTML: 32
  • An integrated approach to child psychotherapy with co-parental support: a longitudinal outcome study

    Marina Miscioscia, Alessandra Simonelli, Lorenza Svanellini, Marta Sisti, Laura Sudati, Maria Elena Brianda, Pier Antonio Battistella, Michela Gatta
    2018-08-08
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2018.297
    2102
    PDF: 1565
    HTML: 108
  • Perceived professional development of Chinese psychotherapy trainees: a pilot study

    Ying Zhang, Lili Shi, Jing Wei, Armin Hartmann , Rainer Leonhart, Markus Bassler, Kurt Fritzsche
    2022-08-01
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.580
    3571
    PDF: 1028
    HTML: 156
  • Introduction to the issue in honor of Sidney Blatt

    Osmano Oasi, John Auerbach
    2017-04-13
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.268
    1600
    PDF: 804
    HTML: 253
  • Dropout and narcissism: an exploratory research about situational factors and personality variables of the psychotherapist

    Osmano Oasi, Simone Maggio, Sara Pacella, Sara Molgora
    2019-07-30
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2019.369
    2442
    PDF: 1730
    HTML: 142
  • Holding the treatment frame: borderline features, personality functioning, and psychotherapy dropout in a youth mental health service

    Francesca De Salve, Chiara Rossi, Osmano Oasi, Lara Malvini, Maria Meliante, Mauro Percudani, Irene Messina
    2026-04-30
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2026.893
    1149
    PDF: 467
    HTML: 170
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