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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
    2625
    PDF: 780
    SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 240
    HTML: 109
  • The relationship among attachment styles, interpersonal needs, and suicidal ideation in patients with psychiatric disorders

    Salvatore Sarubbi, Elena Rogante, Denise Erbuto, Monica Migliorati, Isabella Berardelli, Marco Innamorati, Maurizio Pompili
    2024-12-30
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.785
    3290
    PDF: 679
    HTML: 26
  • 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
    6076
    PDF: 1948
    HTML: 33
  • 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
    2174
    PDF: 675
    HTML: 39
  • Navigating the complexity of the therapeutic and clinical use of photography in psychosocial settings: a review of the literature

    Emanuela Saita, Martina Tramontano
    2018-04-12
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2018.293
    5462
    PDF: 2657
    HTML: 1617
  • 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
    3703
    PDF: 980
    SUPPLEMENTARY: 265
    HTML: 83
  • Are there gender and age differences in the effect of coping strategies on suicidal ideation among adolescents? The mediating role of emotional intelligence

    Anyerson Stiths Gómez-Tabares, Jorge Emiro Restrepo
    2025-07-31
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2025.843
    1802
    PDF: 1006
    HTML: 31
  • 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
    2715
    PDF: 1073
    Supplementary Material: 340
    HTML: 71
  • 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
    5029
    PDF: 1306
    HTML: 160
  • 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
    2554
    PDF: 999
    HTML: 97
  • Interpersonal emotion regulation questionnaire: psychometric properties of the Italian version and associations with psychopathology

    Irene Messina, Pietro Spataro, Alessandro Grecucci, Danielle M. Moskow, Cristina Marogna, Stefan G. Hofmann
    2022-08-24
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.616
    5050
    PDF: 2777
    Appendix: 634
    HTML: 524
  • 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
    2273
    PDF: 963
    SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 243
    HTML: 99
  • Attachment orientations and emotion regulation: new insights from the study of interpersonal emotion regulation strategies

    Irene Messina, Vincenzo Calvo, Alessandro Grecucci
    2023-12-31
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2023.703
    8003
    PDF: 3106
    HTML: 314
  • 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
    2620
    PDF: 1383
    HTML: 209
  • The clinical consequence of positive mental health in psychotherapy

    Mario Fulcheri, Danilo Carrozzino
    2017-07-13
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.280
    2288
    PDF: 1004
    HTML: 184
  • 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
    3712
    PDF: 900
    HTML: 30
  • 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
    1978
    PDF: 1058
  • 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
    2699
    PDF: 913
    Appendix: 308
    HTML: 62
  • 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
    9798
    PDF: 3136
    HTML: 220
  • 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
    3059
    PDF: 1243
    HTML: 617
  • 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
    5021
    PDF: 1142
    Appendix: 261
    HTML: 53
  • 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
    1244
    PDF: 551
    HTML: 88
  • 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
    3352
    PDF: 1532
    HTML: 611
  • An overview of the Italian contribution to the international multisite SPRISTAD study on psychotherapy training

    Irene Messina, Salvatore Gullo, Omar Carlo Gioacchino Gelo, Cecilia Giordano, Silvia Salcuni
    2019-12-19
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2019.418
    1669
    PDF: 1097
    HTML: 30
  • Special issue: Research in child and adolescent psychotherapy

    Miriam Steele, Anna Maria Speranza
    2022-05-09
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.633
    1685
    PDF: 666
    HTML: 40
  • Tracking change in group interventions: a further adaptation of the innovative moments coding system for groups

    Giovanna Esposito, Anna Sara Cutolo, Raffaella Passeggia, Silvia Formentin, Miguel Mario Gonçalves
    2022-12-29
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.648
    2073
    PDF: 660
    HTML: 27
  • 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
    1516
    PDF: 603
    SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 244
    HTML: 131
  • 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
    595
    PDF: 467
    HTML: 26
  • 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
    3399
    PDF: 1376
    HTML: 585
  • 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
    4003
    PDF: 1020
    HTML: 28
  • 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
    917
    PDF: 457
    HTML: 40
  • Why did she leave? Development of working alliance in a case of psychotherapy for depression

    Petr Doležal, Michal Čevelíček, Tomáš Řiháček, Jan Roubal, Roman Hytych, Lucia Ukropová
    2019-07-30
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2019.354
    1850
    PDF: 1325
    HTML: 63
  • 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
    1486
    PDF: 996
    HTML: 1183
  • Cooperation within the therapeutic relationship improves metacognitive functioning: preliminary findings

    Benedetto Farina, Marianna Liotti, Claudio Imperatori, Lucia Tombolini, Elena Gasperini, Paola Mallozzi, Marianna Russo, Giorgia Simoncini Malucelli, Fabio Monticelli
    2023-11-08
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2023.712
    2517
    PDF: 902
    HTML: 90
  • 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
    2839
    PDF: 1274
    HTML: 44
  • 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
    24001
    PDF: 7034
    HTML: 60631
  • 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
    4321
    PDF: 1002
    HTML: 127
  • ‘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
    3976
    PDF: 1058
    HTML: 73
  • 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
    2736
    PDF: 1486
    HTML: 649
  • 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
    4315
    PDF: 1561
    HTML: 365
  • 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
    1946
    PDF: 828
    HTML: 34
  • 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
    1188
    PDF: 635
    HTML: 109
  • Training in psychotherapy: a call for embodied and psychophysiological approaches

    Alessandro Gennaro, Johann Roland Kleinbub, Stefania Mannarini, Sergio Salvatore, Arianna Palmieri
    2019-12-19
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2019.395
    2992
    PDF: 1706
    HTML: 102
  • 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
    3629
    PDF: 2019
    HTML: 335
  • The problem of suicidality, personality disorder, and treatment: an alternative psycho-social perspective

    Marco Chiesa
    2024-12-03
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.779
    2708
    PDF: 536
    HTML: 32
  • 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
    1896
    PDF: 1185
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