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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

  1115

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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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• 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

  781

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• Something has sort of opened up for me: psychology students’ reflections after participating in an apprenticeship training model

  Nina Jakhelln Laugen, Torun Grøtte, Truls Ryum, Patrick A. Vogel, Heidi Brattland, Katrine Høyer Holgersen

  2024-08-27

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.794

  2932

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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

  2774

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  The relevance of social dreaming for action research: exploring jail workers’ unconscious thinking of the changes in the prison organization

  Lidia Borghi, Claudio Cassardo, Elisa Mingarelli, Elena Vegni

  2021-08-12

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2021.542

  6853

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  Appendix: 321

• 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

  1410

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• 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

  5295

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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

  2672

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  Dreaming during lockdown: a quali-quantitative analysis of the Italian population dreams during the first COVID-19 pandemic wave

  Lidia Borghi, Federica Bonazza, Giulia Lamiani, Alessandro Musetti, Tommaso Manari, Maria Filosa, Maria C. Quattropani, Vittorio Lenzo, Maria Francesca Freda, Daniela Lemmo, Emanuela Saita, Roberto Cattivelli, Gianluca Castelnuovo, Elena Vegni, Christian Franceschini

  2021-08-24

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2021.547

  4294

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• "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

  1218

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  SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 140

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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

  899

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  SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 173

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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

  1581

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  SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 142

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  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

  4689

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  Working on dreams, from neuroscience to psychotherapy

  Giorgio Caviglia

  2021-08-12

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2021.540

  7118

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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

  4931

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  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

  4304

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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

  652

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• Factors of treatment success in psychotherapy: a within-therapist analysis of early session processes

  Yan Zhu, Mark J. Hilsenroth

  2025-07-22

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2025.848

  1549

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  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

  6031

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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

  3207

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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

  2988

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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

  9876

  PDF: 2874

  Supplementary Material: 288

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  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

  3145

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• 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

  3166

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• It takes two to tango: a qualitative meta-synthesis on processes of psychotherapy dropout from the Single Case Archive

  Liza Notaerts, Melissa De Smet, Martin Finn, Kimberly Van Nieuwenhove, Vicky Hennissen, Reitske Meganck

  2025-12-03

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2025.876

  925

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  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

  2321

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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

  662

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• 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

  6594

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  The extended unconscious group field and metabolization of pandemic experience: dreaming together to keep cohesion alive

  Cristina Marogna, Chiara Masaro, Vincenzo Calvo, Simona Ghedin, Floriana Caccamo

  2022-12-29

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.646

  1480

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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

  3641

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  Till the ocean do us part: Italian and American therapists representations of stepfamilies in treatment

  Monica Accordini, Scott Browning, Marialuisa Gennari, Kevin McCarthy, Davide Margola

  2017-10-27

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.271

  1383

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  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

  5675

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  The influence of pharmaceutical companies

  Paolo Migone

  2017-07-13

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.276

  2790

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• What do you expect from psychological care? A qualitative study of depressed patients’ expectations treated in mental healthcare settings Depressed patients' psychological care expectations

  Ana Karina Zúñiga Caiseo, Guillermo De la Parra, Lucía Núñez, Mariane Krause

  2025-03-26

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2025.839

  3283

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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

  794

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• 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

  2324

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  Supplementary Material: 270

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