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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
    2870
    PDF: 556
    HTML: 66
  • 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
    3369
    PDF: 1129
    HTML: 49
  • 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
    3221
    PDF: 811
    SUPPLEMENTARY: 192
    HTML: 31
  • 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
    6430
    PDF: 2486
    HTML: 246
  • 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
    1381
    PDF: 595
    HTML: 47
  • 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
    2563
    PDF: 1139
    HTML: 37
  • 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
    3003
    PDF: 532
    HTML: 15
  • 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
    4689
    PDF: 932
    Appendix: 231
    HTML: 41
  • 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
    6561
    PDF: 2112
    HTML: 10902
  • 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
    5264
    PDF: 1182
    HTML: 34
  • 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
    3404
    PDF: 956
    HTML: 43
  • 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
    2322
    PDF: 798
    HTML: 82
  • 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
    1222
    PDF: 785
    HTML: 9
  • 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
    2733
    PDF: 1295
    HTML: 456
  • 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
    2444
    PDF: 793
    Appendix: 232
    HTML: 51
  • 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
    2364
    PDF: 1467
    HTML: 475
  • Italian validation of the Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation-10 (CORE-10): a short measure for routine outcome monitoring in clinical practice

    Antonino La Tona, Sofia Tagini, Agostino Brugnera, Barbara Poletti, Edoardo Nicolò Aiello, Gianluca Lo Coco, Lidia Del Piccolo, Angelo Compare
    2023-04-04
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2023.671
    2884
    PDF: 896
    Supplementary Material: 190
    HTML: 44
  • 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
    2606
    PDF: 904
    HTML: 47
  • 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
    4740
    PDF: 1313
    HTML: 46
  • 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
    6102
    PDF: 1736
    HTML: 192
  • Self-assessment of patterns of subjective experience: development and psychometric study of the States of Mind Questionnaire

    Bruno Faustino, António Branco Vasco, Giancarlo Dimaggio, Ana Nunes da Silva; Sophie Seromenho
    2021-01-20
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2020.465
    2160
    PDF: 856
    HTML: 23
  • 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
    3753
    PDF: 1306
    HTML: 110
  • ‘Isolated together’: online group treatments during the COVID-19 pandemic. A systematic review

    Giorgia Margherita, Benedetta Muzii, Alessia Caffieri, Adriana Di Francia, Brenda Somma
    2022-11-04
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.639
    3577
    PDF: 898
    HTML: 52
  • 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
    3070
    PDF: 691
    HTML: 60
  • Crying in psychotherapy: an exploratory mixed-methods study on forms of emotional crying and associated therapeutic interventions

    Fabienne Gutjahr, Cord Benecke
    2024-04-17
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.725
    1862
    PDF: 1083
    HTML: 50
  • 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
    2817
    PDF: 1153
    HTML: 849
  • 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
    2161
    PDF: 863
    HTML: 58
  • 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
    821
    PDF: 373
    HTML: 78
  • The effectiveness of short-term dynamic/interpersonal group therapy on perfectionism; assessment of anxiety, depression and interpersonal problems

    Shirzad Babaei, Mahmood Dehghani, Fahimeh Fathali Lavasani, Ahmad Ashouri, Leila Mohamadi
    2022-12-29
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.656
    3055
    PDF: 1243
    HTML: 72
  • 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
    1501
    PDF: 914
    HTML: 129
  • "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
    1241
    PDF: 601
    SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 142
    HTML: 22
  • Differentiating self-disclosure interventions from self-involving interventions based on the assessment of the short-term therapeutic effects: preliminary results

    Fabio Monticelli, Chiara Massullo, Antonino Carcione, Lucia Tombolini, Flaminia Guerra, Marianna Liotti, Cecilia Monticelli, Elena Gasperini, Marianna Russo, Samanta Novaretto, Letizia La Vista, Paola Mallozzi, Claudio Imperatori, Chiara Del Brutto, Benedetto Farina
    2025-02-10
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2025.800
    3922
    PDF: 1955
    HTML: 25
  • 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
    1577
    PDF: 861
    HTML: 17
  • The problem of suicidality, personality disorder, and treatment: an alternative psycho-social perspective

    Marco Chiesa
    2024-12-03
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.779
    2494
    PDF: 428
    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
    1677
    PDF: 521
    SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 150
    HTML: 82
  • 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
    1776
    PDF: 734
    HTML: 23
  • Interpersonal emotion regulation questionnaire: psychometric properties of the Italian version and associations with psychopathology

    Irene Messina, Pietro Spataro, Alessandro Grecucci, Danielle M. Moskow, Cristina Marogna, Stefan G. Hofmann
    2022-08-24
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.616
    4491
    PDF: 2538
    Appendix: 549
    HTML: 497
  • 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
    5711
    PDF: 2968
    HTML: 407
  • 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
    1617
    PDF: 527
    SUPPLEMENTARY: 105
    HTML: 22
  • 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
    2110
    PDF: 675
    HTML: 89
  • 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
    6757
    PDF: 1552
    HTML: 99
  • Perceived professional development of Chinese psychotherapy trainees: a pilot study

    Ying Zhang, Lili Shi, Jing Wei, Armin Hartmann , Rainer Leonhart, Markus Bassler, Kurt Fritzsche
    2022-08-01
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.580
    3391
    PDF: 954
    HTML: 152
  • The transition to online psychotherapy during the pandemic: a qualitative study on patients’ perspectives

    Cecilia Giordano, Ivan Ambrosiano , Maria Teresa Graffeo, Alessandro Di Caro, Salvatore Gullo
    2022-11-04
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.638
    5433
    PDF: 1841
    HTML: 51
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