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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
    1952
    PDF: 854
    SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 218
    HTML: 78
  • 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
    1937
    PDF: 751
    SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 128
    SUPPLEMENTARY R MARKDOWN: 57
    HTML: 220
  • 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
    3533
    PDF: 768
    HTML: 98
  • 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
    3412
    PDF: 1602
    HTML: 21
  • 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
    2155
    PDF: 652
    SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 196
    HTML: 92
  • 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
    1063
    PDF: 472
    HTML: 81
  • 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
    3934
    PDF: 1372
    Supplementary Material: 231
    HTML: 609
  • 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
    4436
    PDF: 1653
    HTML: 858
  • 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
    1079
    PDF: 552
    HTML: 92
  • 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
    1353
    PDF: 531
    SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 224
    HTML: 113
  • 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
    3149
    PDF: 1817
    HTML: 108
  • 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
    2096
    PDF: 1002
    HTML: 35
  • 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
    3526
    PDF: 903
    SUPPLEMENTARY: 239
    HTML: 45
  • 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
    1230
    PDF: 679
    HTML: 90
  • 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
    2961
    PDF: 1229
    HTML: 856
  • 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
    5055
    PDF: 1406
    HTML: 49
  • 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
    7233
    PDF: 2765
    HTML: 277
  • 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
    2287
    PDF: 963
    HTML: 62
  • 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
    1080
    PDF: 452
    SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 79
    HTML: 180
  • 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
    5456
    PDF: 1281
    HTML: 37
  • Developing a prototype for relationship therapy psychoanalysis: an empirical study with the Psychotherapy Process Q-set

    Laura Bonalume, Laura Corbelli, Mattia Ferro, Anna Lisa Mazzoleni, Maria Pia Roggero
    2023-03-24
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2023.674
    2477
    PDF: 795
    HTML: 31
  • 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
    11212
    PDF: 3207
    Supplementary Material: 372
    HTML: 284
  • 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
    4183
    PDF: 951
    HTML: 120
  • 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
    4026
    PDF: 1437
    HTML: 344
  • "Maybe you don’t know what answers I want": unresolved alliance ruptures preceding dropout in short-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy with depressed adolescents

    Manuela Jose Difronzo, Lisa Thackeray, Sally O'Keeffe, Ana Calderon, Nick Midgley
    2025-03-30
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2025.841
    1310
    PDF: 732
    SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 192
    HTML: 30
  • 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
    2953
    PDF: 1443
    HTML: 1431
  • Transference interpretation and psychotherapy outcome: a systematic review of a no-consensus relationship

    Meltem Yilmaz, Kutlu Kağan Türkarslan, Ludovica Zanini, Dilara Hasdemir, Grazia Fernanda Spitoni, Vittorio Lingiardi
    2024-05-02
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.744
    4644
    PDF: 1646
    SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 219
    HTML: 97
  • 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
    9131
    PDF: 3396
    HTML: 953
  • 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
    2579
    PDF: 1113
    APPENDIX: 426
    HTML: 2115
  • 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
    3249
    PDF: 1694
    HTML: 1175
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