Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Research in Psychotherapy: Psychopathology, Process and Outcome

Editor-in-Chief: Mariagrazia Di Giuseppe | Scientific Director: Vittorio Lingiardi | eISSN 2239-8031 - pISSN 2499-7552

  • About the Journal
  • Editorial Board
  • Publication Ethics
  • Current issue
  • Archives
  • Online Advance
  • Special Issues
    • Overview
    • Forthcoming Special Issues
  • Copyright
  • Register
  • Login
  • Search
  • Contacts
  • News
2.3
Impact Factor 2024
4.3
CiteScore 2024
Submit
an article
  1. Home /
  2. Search

Search

Advanced filters
Published After
Published Before

Search Results

##search.searchResults.foundPlural##
  • The interplay of mentalization and epistemic trust: a protective mechanism against emotional dysregulation in adolescent internalizing symptoms

    Laura Parolin, Alberto Milesi, Giovanni Comelli, Francesca Locati
    2023-12-31
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2023.707
    2677
    PDF: 814
    HTML: 48
  • 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
    2456
    PDF: 1067
    HTML: 0
  • 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
    4298
    PDF: 889
    HTML: 28
  • 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
    1821
    PDF: 765
    Supplementary Material: 115
    HTML: 55
  • 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
    638
    PDF: 253
    SUPPLEMENTARY: 38
    HTML: 8
  • 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
    2282
    PDF: 609
    HTML: 48
  • 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
    4094
    PDF: 1057
    HTML: 26
  • Virtue, well-being, and mentalized affectivity

    Elliot Jurist, David Greenberg, Marissa Pizziferro, Rozita Alaluf, Michael Perez Sosa
    2023-12-31
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2023.710
    1788
    PDF: 690
    Supplementary Material: 124
    HTML: 78
  • 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
    4773
    PDF: 1297
    HTML: 125
  • Beyond self-criticism and dependency: structural functioning of depressive patients and its treatment

    Guillermo de la Parra, Paula Dagnino, Camila Valdés, Mariane Krause
    2017-04-19
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.236
    2305
    PDF: 1102
    HTML: 424
  • 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
    2073
    PDF: 693
    HTML: 36
  • 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
    7250
    PDF: 1662
    Supplementary Material: 154
    HTML: 158
  • Assessing mentalization in psychotherapy: first validation of the Mentalization Imbalances Scale

    Giulia Gagliardini, Salvatore Gullo, Edgardo Caverzasi, Annalisa Boldrini, Stefano Blasi, Antonello Colli
    2018-12-18
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2018.339
    2520
    PDF: 2321
    HTML: 60
  • 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
    4097
    PDF: 1249
    HTML: 6
  • 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
    2762
    PDF: 737
    HTML: 38
  • 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
    1369
    PDF: 373
    HTML: 10
  • Reflective functioning and personal recovery process of users with borderline personality disorder on Instagram: an explorative study using computerized and thematic analysis

    Giovanna Esposito, Viviana Perla, Raffaella Passeggia, Erik Fertuck, Erhard Mergenthaler
    2021-01-18
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2020.463
    2031
    PDF: 726
    HTML: 28
  • 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
    1637
    PDF: 527
    HTML: 60
  • New horizons in group psychotherapy research and practice from third wave positive psychology: a practice-friendly review

    Cheri L. Marmarosh, Steven Sandage, Nathaniel Wade, Laura E. Captari, Sarah Crabtree
    2022-11-04
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.643
    8234
    PDF: 1827
    HTML: 53
  • 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
    1566
    PDF: 606
    HTML: 69
  • Working on dreams, from neuroscience to psychotherapy

    Giorgio Caviglia
    2021-08-12
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2021.540
    6279
    PDF: 1464
    HTML: 119
  • 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
    3640
    PDF: 568
    HTML: 31
  • Further data on the reliability of the mentalization imbalances scale and of the modes of mentalization scale

    Giulia Gagliardini, Laura Gatti, Antonello Colli
    2020-05-21
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2020.450
    1082
    PDF: 606
    HTML: 34
  • A psychodynamic contribution to the understanding of anger - The importance of diagnosis before treatment

    Paola Manfredi, Claudia Taglietti
    2022-06-30
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.587
    4533
    PDF: 2081
    HTML: 310
  • Oriented mentalization-based treatment for borderline personality disorder patients: preliminary results at Camposampiero Mental Health Center

    Stefano Carrera, Guia Pandolfi, Jee Yun Cappelletti, Walter Padoani, Silvia Salcuni
    2018-12-18
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2018.336
    1815
    PDF: 1351
    HTML: 224
  • Qualitative research in adolescent psychotherapy: attachment and reflective functioning as psychotherapy’s outcomes of an adolescent with anorexia nervosa

    Ester D'Onofrio, Cecilia Serena Pace, Donatella Cavanna
    2015-12-23
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2015.181
    2237
    PDF: 1715
  • 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
    5176
    PDF: 2339
    HTML: 168
  • Mentalization, attachment, and defense mechanisms: a Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual-2-oriented empirical investigation

    Annalisa Tanzilli, Mariagrazia Di Giuseppe, Guido Giovanardi, Tommaso Boldrini, Giorgio Caviglia, Ciro Conversano, Vittorio Lingiardi
    2021-03-29
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2021.531
    53451
    PDF: 2444
    HTML: 220
  • 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
    1378
    PDF: 755
    HTML: 22
  • 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
    2712
    PDF: 656
    HTML: 21
  • 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
    2250
    PDF: 769
    HTML: 1998
  • 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
    1932
    PDF: 921
    HTML: 39
  • A developmental perspective on adolescent psychoanalytic psychotherapy. An Italian study with the Adolescent Psychotherapy Q-Set

    Mauro Di Lorenzo, Alfio Maggiolini, Virginia Anna Suigo
    2015-12-23
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2015.183
    2180
    PDF: 1993
  • 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
    1820
    PDF: 286
    HTML: 4
  • Trans in treatment: a mixed-method systematic review on the psychotherapeutic experiences of transgender and gender diverse people Transgender people’s experiences of psychotherapy

    Selene Mezzalira, Nicola Carone, Vincenzo Bochicchio, Sofia Villani, Gianluca Cruciani, Maria Quintigliano, Cristiano Scandurra
    2025-02-28
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2025.834
    3202
    PDF: 1212
    SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 696
    HTML: 2
  • Referential activity, dissociation, psychopathology and psychotherapy

    Raffaella Perrella, Nadia Del Villano, Giorgio Caviglia
    2016-11-11
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2016.243
    2058
    PDF: 848
    HTML: 509
  • 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
    2526
    PDF: 1042
    HTML: 6
  • 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
    1366
    PDF: 615
    HTML: 21
  • 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
    1848
    PDF: 414
    HTML: 34
  • Introduction to the issue in honor of Sidney Blatt

    Osmano Oasi, John Auerbach
    2017-04-13
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.268
    1247
    PDF: 560
    HTML: 227
  • 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
    1173
    PDF: 584
    HTML: 27
  • Case formulations in mentalization-based group therapy

    Sigmund Karterud
    2018-12-18
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2018.318
    2541
    PDF: 1413
    HTML: 523
  • 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
    2789
    PDF: 978
    SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 107
    HTML: 54
  • 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
    2259
    PDF: 539
    SUPPLEMENTARY: 114
    HTML: 6
  • 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
    1999
    PDF: 744
    Supplementary Material: 109
    HTML: 351
  • Balancing clinical risk with countertransference management protects alliance

    Joào F. Barreto, Paula Mena Matos
    2017-10-27
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.279
    1955
    PDF: 1223
    HTML: 455
  • 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
    2751
    PDF: 1052
    HTML: 101
  • 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
    2052
    PDF: 298
    HTML: 4
  • From turn-by-turn to larger chunks of talk: An exploratory study in psychotherapeutic micro-processes using conversation analysis

    Michael B. Buchholz, Horst Kächele
    2017-10-27
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.257
    2036
    PDF: 1024
    HTML: 445
  • Analysis of a dream series by the Dream Coding System developed by Ulrich Moser

    Gabriela Pap, Fritz Lackinger, Gerhard Kamp, Henriette Löffler-Stastka
    2021-08-24
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2021.538
    4570
    PDF: 797
    HTML: 97
  • Adolescents’ experiences of psychotherapy following child sexual abuse

    Rosaleen McElvaney, Andrina Monaghan, Christina Treacy, Naoise Delaney
    2023-07-04
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2023.630
    1986
    PDF: 791
    HTML: 99
  • Rate of speech and emotional-cognitive regulation in the psychotherapeutic process: a pilot study

    Marco Tonti, Omar C.G. Gelo
    2016-10-19
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2016.232
    1922
    PDF: 855
    HTML: 832
  • Chronic suicidal ideations: a risk or a protection

    Elsa Ronningstam, Mark Schechter, Benjamin Herbstman, Mark Goldbalatt
    2024-06-19
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.764
    3933
    PDF: 691
    HTML: 27
  • 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
    2100
    PDF: 873
    APPENDIX: 300
    HTML: 1973
  • 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
    2537
    PDF: 708
    HTML: 91
  • 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
    2825
    PDF: 1456
    HTML: 628
  • Does technique matter? A multilevel meta-analysis on the association between psychotherapeutic techniques and outcome

    Christin Janine Grevenhaus, Christoph Flückiger, Lea Theimer, Cord Benecke
    2024-08-29
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.803
    3819
    PDF: 1459
    HTML: 45
  • “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
    2690
    PDF: 998
    HTML: 181
  • 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
    3841
    PDF: 1449
    HTML: 1042
  • 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
    3113
    PDF: 1274
    HTML: 98
  • 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
    2858
    PDF: 1154
    HTML: 50
  • 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
    3190
    PDF: 1327
    HTML: 702
  • 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
    2007
    PDF: 616
    HTML: 19
1 - 63 of 63 items

authors

FOR AUTHORS
  • SUBMIT YOUR PAPER
  • Guide for Authors
  • Benefits for Authors
  • How to write a scientific paper
  • How to write a Review article
  • Article Processing Charge
  • Index of Authors

reviewers

FOR REVIEWERS
  • Benefits for Reviewers
  • How to review

indexing

INDEXING
  • PubMed Central
  • PubMed
  • Scopus
  • Web of Science
  • DOAJ
  • OpenAlex
  • PsycInfo
  • ESCI
  • Analytics

Keywords

  • Therapeutic interventions in intimate partner violence: an overview
    365
  • Research in psychoanalysis across theory and practice: a systematic literature review
    279
  • Are there gender and age differences in the effect of coping strategies on suicidal ideation among adolescents? The mediating role of emotional intelligence
    276
  • Factors of treatment success in psychotherapy: a within-therapist analysis of early session processes
    253
  • Impact of personality traits, coping styles, and anger on psychological symptoms of patients with arterial hypertension: Psychological factors in arterial hypertension
    248
2025: Online Advance Publication
Effectiveness of Jungian psychotherapy in supervised training settings
Christian Roesler et al.
25 August 2025
2025: Online Advance Publication
Impact of personality traits, coping styles, and anger on psychological symptoms of patients with arterial hypertension
Francesca Giordano et al.
31 July 2025
2025: Online Advance Publication
Are there gender and age differences in the effect of coping strategies on suicidal ideation among adolescents? The mediating role of emotional...
Anyerson Stiths Gómez-Tabares et al.
31 July 2025
2025: Online Advance Publication
Factors of treatment success in psychotherapy: a within-therapist analysis of early session processes
Yan Zhu et al.
22 July 2025
Research in Psychotherapy: Psychopathology, Process and Outcome

is an Open Access, peer-reviewed journal published by PAGEPress®, Pavia, Italy. All credits and honors to PKP for their OJS.

pISSN: 2499-7552
eISSN: 2239-8031

Info

  • About
  • Editorial Board
  • News
  • Advertising

Info Submission

  • Submission
  • Guidelines For Authors

Our App Is Free For Anyone!

Themes by Openjournaltheme.com

© PAGEPress 2008-2025    •    PAGEPress® is a registered trademark property of PAGEPress srl, Italy    •    VAT: IT02125780185    •    Privacy