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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

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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

  2012

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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

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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

  3425

  PDF: 765

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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

  1285

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  Beyond the mask of deference: exploring the relationship between ruptures and transference in a single-case study

  Francesca Locati, Pietro De Carli, Emanuele Tarasconi, Margherita Lang, Laura Parolin

  2016-10-19

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2016.212

  2773

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• 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

  1748

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  Defensive mechanisms and personality structure in an early adolescent boy: process and outcome issues in a non-intensive psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy

  Daniela Di Riso, Alessandro Gennaro, Silvia Salcuni

  2015-12-23

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2015.176

  2313

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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

  2916

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• Examining the factor structure of the 40-item Defense Style Questionnaire among adults with depression: an individual participant data meta-analysis

  Frederik J. Wienicke, William J. Burk, Erkki Heinonen, Olavi Lindfors, Tommi Härkänen, Paul Knekt, Sampo Sarvasmaa, Luciano Dias de Mattos Souza, Karen Jansen, Ricardo Azevedo da Silva, Érico Nobre dos Santos, Jack J. M. Dekker, Jaap Peen, Henricus L. Van, John Christopher Perry, William M. van der Veld, Ednei Soares, Jan Spijker, Ellen Driessen

  2026-02-16

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2026.887

  1828

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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

  1203

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• Diagnosi e valutazione della personalit alleanza terapeutica e scambio clinico nella ricerca in psicoterapia

  Vittorio Lingiardi, Francesco Gazzillo, Antonello Colli, Francesco De Bei, Annalisa Tanzilli, Mariagrazia Di Giuseppe, Nicola Nardelli, Chiara Caristo, Valeria Condino, Daniela Gentile, Nino Dazzi

  97–124

  2011-02-21

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2010.36

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• 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

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• 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

  3361

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• 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

  1893

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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

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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

  1045

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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

  3097

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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

  3863

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  Supplementary Material: 216

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• Preliminary findings from a brief psychodynamic counseling program for university staff: users’ psychological characteristics and implications for the program’s utility

  Alessia Renzi, Eleonora Piacentini, Vittorio Lingiardi

  2026-07-31

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2026.897

  12

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