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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

  4093

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  Psychological outcomes after hospitalization for COVID-19: data from a multidisciplinary follow-up screening program for recovered patients

  Federica Bonazza, Lidia Borghi, Eugenia Cao di San Marco, Kyrie Piscopo, Francesca Bai, Antonella d’Arminio Monforte, Elena Vegni

  2021-01-14

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2020.491

  5919

  PDF: 1269

  HTML: 38

• 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

  1372

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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

  1646

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  SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 149

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  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

  3636

  PDF: 1298

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  Effectiveness of and processes related to internet-delivered acceptance and commitment therapy for adolescents with anxiety disorders: a randomized controlled trial

  Linnea Nissling, Sandra Weineland, Kristofer Vernmark, Ella Radvogin, Anna-Karin Engström, Sara Schmidt, Eva Nieto Granberg, Elin Larsson, Timo Hursti

  2023-07-04

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2023.681

  4208

  PDF: 1728

  HTML: 131

• 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

  3323

  PDF: 1175

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• 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

  637

  PDF: 252

  SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 35

  HTML: 56
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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

  1921

  PDF: 909

  HTML: 32
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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

  3155

  PDF: 1039

  HTML: 100
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  A brief cognitive-behavioral intervention for stress, anxiety and depressive symptoms in dental students

  Gabriel Gònzalez, Vanetza E. Quezada

  2016-04-18

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2016.192

  3000

  PDF: 1310

  HTML: 1863
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  Psychotherapies for Anxiety and Depression: benefits and costs

  Research Group for treatment for Anxiety and Depression

  2017-07-13

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.284

  3026

  PDF: 1786

  HTML: 303
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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

  2134

  PDF: 870

  HTML: 178
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  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

  4588

  PDF: 1103

  SUPPLEMENTARY: 215

  HTML: 32
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  Attachment insecurity predicts outcomes in an ACT-CBT group therapy for adults in a physical rehabilitation centre

  Danijela Maras, Louise Balfour, Monique Lefebvre, Giorgio A. Tasca

  2022-09-01

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.634

  4663

  PDF: 929

  Appendix: 231

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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

  2336

  PDF: 853

  Supplementary Material: 275

  HTML: 58

• 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

  2025-03-30

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

  3237

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  Listado de síntomas breve (short checklist of symptoms) in Argentinean adults: psychometric study of its main clinical scales

  Guadalupe de la Iglesia, Juliana Beatriz Stover, Mercedes Fernàndez Liporace, Alejandro Castro Solano

  2016-04-18

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2016.179

  2031

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  HTML: 663
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  The Italian version of the Depressive Experiences Questionnaire: psychometric properties and validation in students, community, and clinical groups

  Giorgio Falgares, Sandro De Santis, Salvatore Gullo, Danilo Carrozzino, Daniela Marchetti, Maria Cristina Verrocchio, Gianluca Lo Coco, Daniel Kopala-Sibley, Osmano Oasi

  2017-04-13

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.227

  2924

  PDF: 2129

  APPENDIX: 400

  HTML: 443
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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

  2876

  PDF: 892

  Supplementary Material: 190

  HTML: 44
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  ‘Isolated together’: online group treatments during the COVID-19 pandemic. A systematic review

  Giorgia Margherita, Benedetta Muzii, Alessia Caffieri, Adriana Di Francia, Brenda Somma

  2022-11-04

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.639

  3547

  PDF: 892

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  Analytical psychodrama with college students suffering from mental health problems: Preliminary outcomes

  Roberta Biolcati, Francesca Agostini, Giacomo Mancini

  2017-10-27

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.272

  2858

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  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

  1365

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  Online Supportive Group as social intervention to face COVID lockdown. A qualitative study on psychotherapists, psychology trainees and students, and community people

  Emanuela Brusadelli, Laura Ferrari, Michele Benetti, Stefania Bruzzese, Giada Maria Tonelli, Salvatore Gullo

  2021-01-20

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2020.501

  2540

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• 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

  808

  PDF: 370

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• 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

  8288

  PDF: 3198

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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

  1497

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  Psychodiagnostic Chart-Child (PDC-C): a valid and clinically sensitive diagnostic tool for patient-tailored intervention planning

  Alexandro Fortunato, Annalisa Tanzilli, Vittorio Lingiardi, Anna Maria Speranza

  2022-03-01

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.591

  4708

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  Psychological treatments are as effective as pharmacotherapies in the treatment of adult depression: a summary from Randomized Clinical Trials and neuroscience evidence

  Pim Cuijpers, Claudio Gentili

  2017-07-13

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.273

  3607

  PDF: 2656

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• Effectiveness of Jungian psychotherapy in supervised training settings

  Christian Roesler, Elisabeth Schörry-Volk, Anette Müller, Edem Dotse Zikpi, Wolfram Keller, Miray Kayacan

  2025-08-25

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2025.869

  3695

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  Perfectionism and therapeutic alliance: a review of the clinical research

  Racheli Miller, Mark J. Hilsenroth, Paul L. Hewitt

  2017-04-13

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.264

  3675

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  The catcher in the mind: validation of the brief-mentalized affectivity scale for adolescents in the Italian population

  Marianna Liotti, Alice Fiorini Bincoletto, Fabiola Bizzi, Marta Tironi, Simone Charpentier Mora, Donatella Cavanna, Guido Giovanardi, Elliot Jurist, Anna Maria Speranza, Vittorio Lingiardi, Annalisa Tanzilli

  2023-12-31

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2023.709

  2828

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  New horizons in group psychotherapy research and practice from third wave positive psychology: a practice-friendly review

  Cheri L. Marmarosh, Steven Sandage, Nathaniel Wade, Laura E. Captari, Sarah Crabtree

  2022-11-04

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.643

  12431

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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

  2133

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  The associations between interoceptive awareness, emotion regulation, acceptance, and well-being in patients receiving multicomponent treatment: a dynamic panel network model

  Adam Klocek, Tomáš Řiháček

  2023-07-26

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2023.659

  3157

  PDF: 1039

  Supplementary Material: 262

  HTML: 163
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  The contributions of Sidney J. Blatt: a personal and intellectual biography

  John S. Auerbach

  2017-04-13

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.222

  2759

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  “Trust me, do not trust anyone”: how epistemic mistrust and credulity are associated with conspiracy mentality

  Felix Brauner, Peter Fonagy, Chloe Campbell, Julia Griem, Timo Storck, Tobias Nolte

  2023-12-28

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2023.705

  4312

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  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

  3773

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  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

  4310

  PDF: 996

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  The contribution of Sidney Blatt's two-polarities model to the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual

  Vittorio Lingiardi, Nancy McWilliams, Laura Muzi

  2017-04-13

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.242

  4465

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• 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

  3340

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  Parental criticism, self-criticism and their relation to depressive mood: an exploratory study among a non-clinical population

  Chiara Manfredi, Gabriele Caselli, Federica Pescini, Martina Rossi, Daniela Rebecchi, Giovanni Maria Ruggiero, Sandra Sassaroli

  2016-04-18

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2016.178

  5311

  PDF: 2032

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  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

  2542

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  Defense mechanisms are associated with mental health symptoms across six countries

  Vera Békés, Claire J. Starrs, J. Christopher Perry, Tracy A. Prout, Ciro Conversano, Mariagrazia Di Giuseppe

  2023-12-31

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2023.729

  3573

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  Supplementary Material: 190

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  Immersion and distancing across the therapeutic process: relationship to symptoms and emotional arousal

  Eunice Barbosa, Maria Amendoeira, Tiago Ferreira, Ana Sofia Teixeira, José Pinto-Gouveia, Joào Salgado

  2017-07-13

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.258

  2358

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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

  5527

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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

  2361

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  Metacognitive interpersonal therapy-eating disorders versus cognitive behavioral therapy for eating disorders for non-underweight adults with eating disorders: study protocol for a pilot pre-registered randomized controlled trial

  Gloria Fioravanti, Martina Nicolis, Angus MacBeth, Giancarlo Dimaggio, Raffaele Popolo

  2023-08-28

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2023.690

  3836

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  Introducing the QACP: development and preliminary validation of an instrument to measure psychotherapist’s core competencies

  Michele Settanni, Monica Bronzini, Giuseppe Carzedda, Giuseppe Godino, Maria Luisa Manca, Luisa Martini, Gianluca Provvedi, Francesco Quilghini, Alberto Zucconi, Gianni Francesetti

  2022-08-01

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.599

  3362

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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

  5240

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  Nightmares and bad dreams among individuals with musculoskeletal pain: a link to vitamin D and calcium

  Khalid K. Abdul-Razzak, Mohammad J. Alkhatatbeh

  2021-08-24

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2021.533

  10090

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  Changes in the anaclitic-introjective personality configurations following psychoanalytic psychotherapy with young adults

  Andrzej Werbart, Siri Aldèn, Anders Diedrichs

  2017-04-13

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.239

  2456

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  Therapeutic interventions in intimate partner violence: an overview

  Valeria Condino, Annalisa Tanzilli, Anna Maria Speranza, Vittorio Lingiardi

  2016-11-07

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2016.241

  23118

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  An American scientist's iconoclastic response to Psychotherapies for Anxiety and Depression: benefits and costs

  Joseph A. Hirsch

  2017-07-13

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.275

  1176

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• 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

  840

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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

  2025-02-28

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

  4252

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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

  2024-12-16

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

  3194

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  The effectiveness of short-term dynamic/interpersonal group therapy on perfectionism; assessment of anxiety, depression and interpersonal problems

  Shirzad Babaei, Mahmood Dehghani, Fahimeh Fathali Lavasani, Ahmad Ashouri, Leila Mohamadi

  2022-12-29

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.656

  3033

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  The transition to online psychotherapy during the pandemic: a qualitative study on patients’ perspectives

  Cecilia Giordano, Ivan Ambrosiano , Maria Teresa Graffeo, Alessandro Di Caro, Salvatore Gullo

  2022-11-04

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.638

  5404

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  Exploration of psychometric properties of the Italian version of the Core Young Person’s Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation (YP-CORE)

  Rosalba Di Biase; Chris Evans, Daniela Rebecchi, Flavia Baccari, Anna Saltini, Elena Bravi, Gaspare Palmieri, Fabrizio Starace

  2021-08-24

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2021.554

  3916

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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

  679

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  Effectiveness of internet-delivered dialectical behavior therapy skills training on executive functions among college students with borderline personality traits: a non-randomized controlled trial

  CV Vijayapriya, Rameshbabu Tamarana

  2023-10-30

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2023.694

  3481

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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

  3032

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  Epistemic trust: a comprehensive review of empirical insights and implications for developmental psychopathology

  Elizabeth Li, Chloe Campbell, Nick Midgley, Patrick Luyten

  2023-12-20

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2023.704

  9977

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  Supplementary Material: 301

  HTML: 254
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  Psychotherapy with two late adulthood children of the colonies

  Zelda Gillian Knight

  2017-10-27

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.287

  1578

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• Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing versus cognitive behavioral therapy in the treatment of inpatients with obesity, binge eating disorder, and traumatic experiences: a randomized controlled trial

  Anna Guerrini Usubini, Gian Mauro Manzoni, Giada Pietrabissa, Caterina Nicolazzi, Annalisa Caretti, Chiara Merlini, Valentina Villa, Alessandro Sartorio, Gianluca Castelnuovo

  2026-02-16

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2026.886

  1348

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• Factors of treatment success in psychotherapy: a within-therapist analysis of early session processes

  Yan Zhu, Mark J. Hilsenroth

  2025-07-22

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2025.848

  1568

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• The relationship between defense mechanisms and attachment: a narrative review

  Rose Howell, Vera Békés

  2025-12-31

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2025.879

  2837

  PDF: 535

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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

  2860

  PDF: 638

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  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

  5405

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• Research in psychoanalysis across theory and practice: a systematic literature review

  Cristina Marogna, Ciro De Vincenzo, Klodjana Lleshi, Elisa Paluan, Andrea Viecelli Giannotti

  2025-07-03

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2025.861

  4348

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  Dreaming during COVID-19: the effects of a world trauma

  Cristina Marogna, Emanuele Montanari, Silvio Contiero, Klodjana Lleshi

  2021-08-24

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2021.541

  4362

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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

  3466

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