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  Continuity and discontinuity between psychopathology of childhood and adulthood: a review on retrospective and prospective studies

  Immacolata Zarrella, Luigi Alessandro Russolillo, Giorgio Caviglia, Raffaella Perrella

  2017-07-06

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.248

  3391

  PDF: 1456

  HTML: 2078
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  Problematic internet use in emerging adulthood to escape from maternal helicopter parenting: defensive functioning as a mediating mechanism

  Nicola Carone, Ilaria Maria Antonietta Benzi, Laura Muzi, Laura Antonia Lucia Parolin, Andrea Fontana

  2023-11-08

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2023.693

  3016

  PDF: 1477

  HTML: 105
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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

  1626

  PDF: 804

  HTML: 235
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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

  2907

  PDF: 932

  HTML: 68

• 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

  1791

  PDF: 542

  SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 153

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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

  4693

  PDF: 1553

  HTML: 232
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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

  2924

  PDF: 1130

  HTML: 608
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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

  2526

  PDF: 1042

  APPENDIX: 385

  HTML: 2112
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  The efficacy of transdiagnostic cognitive behavioural therapy on reducing negative affect, anxiety sensitivity and improving perceived control in children with emotional disorders - a randomized controlled trial

  Elham Qanbari Alaee, Omid Saed, Sahel Khakpoor, Reza Ahmadi, Mahsa Ali Mohammadi, Majid Yoosefi Afrashteh, Zekrolah Morovati

  2022-05-09

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.588

  3803

  PDF: 1314

  HTML: 121

• 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

  3792

  PDF: 2397
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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

  2421

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  HTML: 246

• 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

  860

  PDF: 385

  HTML: 164
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  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

  2478

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  Appendix: 234

  HTML: 51
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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

  3524

  PDF: 908

  HTML: 31

• 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

  3431

  PDF: 1146

  HTML: 51
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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

  2818

  PDF: 997

  HTML: 2033
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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

  1429

  PDF: 608

  HTML: 47

• 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

  1568

  PDF: 945

  HTML: 137

• Assessment of Autobiographical Memory Narratives in Psychotherapy with Borderline Personality Disorder: An exploratory study

  Deepti Guruprasad, Poornima Bhola

  2015-03-01

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2014.170

  2186

  PDF: 1095

  Table 2: 261

  Table 1: 329

  Figure 1: 275

  Figure 2: 262

  Figure 3: 239

  Manuscript text with author identifying information: 579

• 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

  3045

  PDF: 542

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• How secure is the secure base? Romantic attachment, emotion regulation, and psychotherapists’ role as secure base figures

  Helena Carvalho, Gil Nata, Paula Mena Matos

  2024-04-22

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.733

  2709

  PDF: 1154

  HTML: 38
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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

  3126

  PDF: 1300

  Supplementary Material: 185

  HTML: 76

• 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

  3126

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  SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 774

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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

  2599

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  A proposal for a brief-term post-adoption intervention in the attachment-perspective: a single case study with a late-adopted child and his adoptive mother

  Cecilia Serena Pace, Ester D'Onofrio, Viviana Guerriero, Giulio Cesare Zavattini

  2016-04-18

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2016.197

  3453

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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

  3736

  PDF: 1274

  Supplementary Material: 194

  HTML: 589
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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

  5309

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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

  486

  PDF: 345

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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

  4357

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  Psychotherapeutic change in children and adolescents who have been sexually abused: a model from participants’ perspectives

  Claudia Capella, Loreto Rodríguez, Estrella Azócar, Ximena Lama, Lucía Núñez, Daniela Águila, Camila Gomez, Macarena Espeleta, Vania Vasquez

  2022-03-04

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.583

  4336

  PDF: 1000

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  Reliability and factorial validity of long and brief versions of the inventory of personality organization in a Latvian sample

  Aija de Starceva-Apele, Malgozata Rascevska

  2022-06-30

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.606

  2931

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• Patient personality and therapist responses in the psychotherapy of adolescents with depressive disorders: toward the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual - third edition

  Annalisa Tanzilli, Flavia Fiorentino, Marianna Liotti, Gabriele Lo Buglio, Ivan Gualco, Vittorio Lingiardi, Carla Sharp, Riccardo Williams

  2024-03-27

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.752

  2194

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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

  8642

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  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

  2870

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  HTML: 850

• 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

  1313

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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

  2991

  PDF: 615

  HTML: 69
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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

  4230

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• Impairment in personality functioning predicts young adult suicidal ideation and suicide attempt above and beyond depressive symptoms

  Kiran Boone, Kennedy M. Balzen, Carla Sharp

  2024-12-31

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.814

  1785

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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

  3727

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  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

  1801

  PDF: 737

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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

  9098

  PDF: 2900

  HTML: 191

• 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

  2611

  PDF: 498

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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

  6601

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  HTML: 10905
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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

  4764

  PDF: 942

  Appendix: 237

  HTML: 42

• 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

  3752

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  HTML: 333
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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

  23584

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  HTML: 36
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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

  3217

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  Mental footnotes: knowledge constructivism from logical thinking to personal beliefs and therapy

  Jose L. Vilchez

  2016-11-07

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2016.234

  2270

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  Beyond the outcomes: generic change indicators in a video-feedback intervention with a depressed mother and her baby: a single case study

  Catalina Sieverson, Marcia Olhaberry, Javiera Duarte, Javier Morán-Kneer, Stefanella Costa, M. José León, Sofía Valenzuela, Fanny Leyton, Carolina Honorato, Antonia Muzard

  2022-03-04

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.584

  4248

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  Identifying predictors associated with the severity of eating concerns in females with eating disorders

  Stefania Cella, Annarosa Cipriano, Mara Iannaccone, Paolo Cotrufo

  2017-04-13

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.199

  2897

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  HTML: 1427
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  Patient personality characteristics and therapeutic integration: treating borderline personality and emotionally dysregulated-dysphoric personality features

  Saryn R. Levy, Mark J. Hilsenroth, Francine Conway, Jesse Owen

  2022-06-30

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.611

  3044

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  HTML: 163
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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

  23408

  PDF: 6769

  HTML: 58931

• 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

  7066

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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

  10422

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  Supplementary Material: 304

  HTML: 263
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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

  3011

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  APPENDIX: 404

  HTML: 444

• 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

  1595

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  Alexithymia and emotional processing: a longitudinal mixed methods research

  Ana Nunes da Silva, Antònio Branco Vasco, Jeanne C. Watson

  2018-04-12

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2018.292

  3188

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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

  3978

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  Evaluating the efficacy of psychodynamic treatment on a single case of autism. A qualitative research

  Marta Vecchiato, Chiara Sacchi, Alessandra Simonelli, Nicola Purgato

  2016-04-18

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2016.194

  5065

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  HTML: 2722
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  Assessing therapist and clinician competency in parent-infant psychotherapy: The REARING coding system (RCS) for the group attachment based intervention (GABI)

  Kelsey Armusewicz, Miriam Steele, Howard Steele, Anne Murphy

  2022-03-01

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.562

  3478

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  Facilitative interpersonal skills are relevant in child therapy too, so why don’t we measure them?

  Jordan Bate, Angelica Tsakas

  2022-05-09

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.595

  2796

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  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

  6845

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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

  5379

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• 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

  3214

  PDF: 701

  HTML: 60

• 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

  1035

  PDF: 426

  SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 185

  HTML: 104
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  Sandor Ferenczi’s concept of the dialogue of unconsciouses: a clinical example

  Zelda G. Knight

  2023-05-02

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2023.655

  2208

  PDF: 716

  HTML: 90

• A systematic review on the role of therapist characteristics in the treatment of eating disorders

  Gaia Albano, Arianna Teti, Arianna Scrò, Rubinia Celeste Bonfanti, Lucia Fortunato, Gianluca Lo Coco

  2024-07-10

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.750

  3770

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  SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 284

  HTML: 225
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  A re-consideration of interpretation. A relational approach

  Zelda G. Knight

  2021-12-20

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2021.555

  2854

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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

  3528

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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

  4509

  PDF: 1807

  HTML: 1145