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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

  1695

  PDF: 526

  SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 150

  HTML: 82

• 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

  2888

  PDF: 565

  HTML: 66
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  Subjective experience of diagnosis and treatment in two adolescents with first-episode schizophrenia

  Marianella Abarzua, Francisco Venegas, Ximena Hidalgo

  2016-04-18

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2016.189

  3184

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  HTML: 601
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  Antisocial personality disorder in group therapy, kindling pro-sociality and mentalizing

  Katharina T.E. Morken, Morten Øvrebø, Charlotte Klippenberg, Therese Morvik, Elisabeth Lied Gikling

  2022-11-07

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.649

  6124

  PDF: 1751

  HTML: 192

• Therapist self-awareness and perception of actual performance: the effects of listening to one recorded session

  Raquel Pereira, António Pazo Pires, David Neto

  2024-02-15

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.722

  12006

  PDF: 3808

  Supplementary Material: 321

  HTML: 175
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  Contextualizing motherhood in persons with borderline personality vulnerabilities: cultural adaptation of the Parent Development Interview-Revised in an Indian context

  Kanika Mehrotra, Poornima Bhola, Geetha Desai

  2023-02-03

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2023.675

  2476

  PDF: 862

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  Group dynamic-relational therapy for perfectionism

  Samuel F. Mikail, Paul L. Hewitt, Gordon L. Flett, Sabrina Ge

  2022-09-01

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.635

  4280

  PDF: 1151

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  Referential activity, dissociation, psychopathology and psychotherapy

  Raffaella Perrella, Nadia Del Villano, Giorgio Caviglia

  2016-11-11

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2016.243

  2419

  PDF: 1162

  HTML: 538

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

  Alessandro Ridolfi

  2024-08-26

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

  2136

  PDF: 399

  HTML: 34
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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

  2162

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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

  4124

  PDF: 900

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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

  2365

  PDF: 874

  Supplementary Material: 275

  HTML: 59

• A Final Commentary: Change and Therapeutic Factors in the Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy with Mr. C

  Alessandra De Coro

  65-70

  2013-11-03

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2013.123

  1031

  PDF: 803

• The Competing Influences of Initial Depressive Symptomatology and Early Alliance on Early Outcome: A Preliminary Study

  Giorgio Gabriele Alberti, Anna Martorano, Bruno Martorano

  109-118

  2014-05-24

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2013.33

  1567

  PDF: 791
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  Characteristics of effective online interventions: implications for adolescents with personality disorder during a global pandemic

  Samantha Reis, Emily L. Matthews, Brin F.S. Grenyer

  2021-01-20

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2020.488

  23524

  PDF: 1212

  HTML: 36

• 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

  1514

  PDF: 922

  HTML: 129
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  Linguistic features of the therapeutic alliance in the first session: a psychotherapy process study

  Attà Negri, Christopher Christian, Rachele Mariani, Luca Belotti, Giovanbattista Andreoli, Kerri Danskin

  2019-04-19

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2019.374

  2931

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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

  944

  PDF: 405

  SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 184

  HTML: 102
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  The Lausanne Trilogue Play within the outcome evaluation in infant mental health: a preliminary report

  Michela Gatta, Marta Sisti, Laura Sudati, Marina Miscioscia, Alessandra Simonelli

  2016-04-18

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2016.198

  3674

  PDF: 1587

  HTML: 1369

• 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

  3246

  PDF: 1511

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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

  2573

  PDF: 1332

  HTML: 643

• 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

  1671

  PDF: 998

  HTML: 177

• Effect of defense mechanisms on the longitudinal development of interpersonal problems during outpatient therapy

  Jonas Schmitt, Matthias Volz, Cord Benecke

  2025-12-31

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2025.878

  1241

  PDF: 768

  SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 177

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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

  4283

  PDF: 1749

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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

  2923

  PDF: 1271

  Supplementary Material: 183

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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

  3185

  PDF: 1048

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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

  3392

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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

  3059

  PDF: 1174

  SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 774

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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

  473

  PDF: 336

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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

  2748

  PDF: 903

  Appendix: 224

  HTML: 39

• 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

  3372

  PDF: 1130

  HTML: 49
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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

  3062

  PDF: 1793

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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

  1677

  PDF: 737

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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

  1874

  PDF: 550

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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

  2389

  PDF: 1219

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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

  2563

  PDF: 1169

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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

  689

  PDF: 450

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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

  1692

  PDF: 1265

  APPENDIX: 347

  HTML: 145
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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

  2539

  PDF: 940

  HTML: 78
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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

  2873

  PDF: 642

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• The Psychotherapy Process Q-set from the Perspective of the Italian Research in Psychotherapy: Commentary on a Paper by J. Stuart Ablon, Raymond A. Levy, and Lotte Smith-Hansen

  Vittorio Lingiardi, Laura Bonalume, Antonello Colli, Daniela Gentile, Annalisa Tanzilli

  24–42

  2011-12-28

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2011.66

  2773

  PDF: 956
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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

  3140

  PDF: 1245

  HTML: 570
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  Assessing children’s defense mechanisms with the Defense Mechanisms Rating Scales Q-sort for Children

  Mariagrazia Di Giuseppe, Tracy A. Prout, Lauren Ammar, Thomas Kui, Ciro Conversano

  2021-12-21

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2021.590

  4172

  PDF: 1563

  HTML: 831

• 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

  3542

  PDF: 1297

  HTML: 328

• 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

  2606

  PDF: 495

  HTML: 169
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  Saving a seat at the table for community members: co-creating an attachment-based intervention for low-income Latinx parent-youth dyads using a promotor/a model

  Jessica L. Borelli, Lyric N. Russo, Jose Arreola, Breana R. Cervantes, Christina M. Marquez, Gloria Montiel, Vanessa Avalos, Jacqueline Carballo, Jackie Garcia, Isha Bhatt, Gina Torres, Francisca Leal, Nancy Guerra

  2022-02-04

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.598

  4370

  PDF: 1143

  Appendix: 334

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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

  2888

  PDF: 897

  Supplementary Material: 190

  HTML: 44
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  Effectiveness of dialectical behavior therapy as a transdiagnostic treatment for improving cognitive functions: a systematic review

  CV Vijayapriya, Rameshbabu Tamarana

  2023-07-04

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2023.662

  8931

  PDF: 2865

  HTML: 190
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  Personal style of the therapist and personality dimensions in a sample of Argentinian therapists

  Leandro Martín Casari, Mirta Susana Ison, Beatriz Margarita María Gómez

  2019-07-30

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2019.362

  2890

  PDF: 1515

  HTML: 66
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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

  2559

  PDF: 936

  HTML: 56
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  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

  1820

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  Portuguese validation of the credibility/expectancy questionnaire in routine practice

  Sara Silva, Eunice Barbosa, João Salgado, Carla Cunha

  2021-04-14

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2021.495

  3098

  PDF: 2355

  HTML: 126

• 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

  3483

  PDF: 1446

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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

  4329

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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

  5266

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  Depression and attachment: how do personality styles and social support influence this relation?

  Paula Dagnino, Carola Pèrez, Adriana Gòmez, Sergio Gloger, Mariane Krause

  2017-04-13

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.237

  6564

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  HTML: 10903
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  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

  2283

  PDF: 1631

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