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  Patient personality characteristics and therapeutic integration: treating borderline personality and emotionally dysregulated-dysphoric personality features

  Saryn R. Levy, Mark J. Hilsenroth, Francine Conway, Jesse Owen

  2022-06-30

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.611

  3044

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  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

  2519

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• Holding the treatment frame: borderline features, personality functioning, and psychotherapy dropout in a youth mental health service

  Francesca De Salve, Chiara Rossi, Osmano Oasi, Lara Malvini, Maria Meliante, Mauro Percudani, Irene Messina

  2026-04-30

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2026.893

  860

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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

  913

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  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

  3528

  PDF: 1465

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• 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

  1785

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• 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

  2194

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  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

  2652

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  Effectiveness of dialectical behavior therapy as a transdiagnostic treatment for improving cognitive functions: a systematic review

  CV Vijayapriya, Rameshbabu Tamarana

  2023-07-04

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2023.662

  9098

  PDF: 2900

  HTML: 191

• 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

  2611

  PDF: 498

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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

  1681

  PDF: 879

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  Characteristics of effective online interventions: implications for adolescents with personality disorder during a global pandemic

  Samantha Reis, Emily L. Matthews, Brin F.S. Grenyer

  2021-01-20

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2020.488

  23584

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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

  4897

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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

  2870

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  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

  4509

  PDF: 1807

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  Continuity and discontinuity between psychopathology of childhood and adulthood: a review on retrospective and prospective studies

  Immacolata Zarrella, Luigi Alessandro Russolillo, Giorgio Caviglia, Raffaella Perrella

  2017-07-06

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.248

  3391

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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

  10422

  PDF: 3030

  Supplementary Material: 304

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  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

  3126

  PDF: 1300

  Supplementary Material: 185

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• The Model of Sequential Brief-Adlerian Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (SB-APP): Specific Features in the Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder

  Andrea Ferrero

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  2012-10-13

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2012.93

  3621

  PDF: 2350

• Repairing alliance ruptures in psychotherapy with adults: a scoping review

  Alberto López-Vásquez, Nicolás González-Araneda, Stephanie Vaccarezza, Catherine F. Eubanks, Paula Errázuriz

  2026-04-30

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2026.892

  1623

  PDF: 550

  SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 70

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• 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

  4351

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  SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 174

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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

  2726

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  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

  5309

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  A thematic analysis of therapists' perspectives on therapeutic alliance rupture moments

  Gonca Soygüt, İsmail Volkan Gülüm

  2016-10-19

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2016.235

  4395

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  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

  2378

  PDF: 1472

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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

  1035

  PDF: 426

  SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 185

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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

  5800

  PDF: 3198

  HTML: 409

• 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

  2531

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  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

  1995

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  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

  3478

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• Development and preliminary validation of the Clinician Affective REsponse (CARE) scale

  Alberto Stefana, Paolo Fusar-Poli, Joshua Langfus, Eduard Vieta, Eric Youngstrom

  2024-03-21

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.736

  2186

  PDF: 1003

  APPENDIX: 260

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  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

  3978

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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

  1254

  PDF: 618

  SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 145

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  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

  2526

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  APPENDIX: 385

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  “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

  4693

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  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

  2281

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  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

  2481

  PDF: 1040

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• 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

  3431

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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

  2991

  PDF: 615

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  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

  6845

  PDF: 2563

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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

  1791

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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

  3727

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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

  3359

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  Therapeutic interventions in intimate partner violence: an overview

  Valeria Condino, Annalisa Tanzilli, Anna Maria Speranza, Vittorio Lingiardi

  2016-11-07

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2016.241

  23408

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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

  3016

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• 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

  3517

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  Impact of personality disorder comorbidity on cognitive-behavioral therapy outcome for mood and anxiety disorders: results from a university training clinic

  Christopher B. Harte, Raymond C. Hawkins II

  2016-10-19

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2016.210

  3171

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• The assessment of therapist responsiveness in psychotherapy research: a systematic review

  Giovanna Esposito, Francesco Cuomo, Angela Di Maro, Raffaella Passeggia

  2024-06-19

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.751

  2716

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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

  3369

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  Referential activity, dissociation, psychopathology and psychotherapy

  Raffaella Perrella, Nadia Del Villano, Giorgio Caviglia

  2016-11-11

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2016.243

  2450

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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

  1167

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  ‘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

  3633

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  Perfectionism and therapeutic alliance: a review of the clinical research

  Racheli Miller, Mark J. Hilsenroth, Paul L. Hewitt

  2017-04-13

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.264

  3734

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  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

  3145

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  Metacognitive interpersonal therapy in group: a feasibility study

  Raffaele Popolo, Angus MacBeth, Stefano Brunello, Flaviano Canfora, Ercan Ozdemir, Daniela Rebecchi, Cecilia Toselli, Gloria Venturelli, Giampaolo Salvatore, Giancarlo Dimaggio

  2018-12-18

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2018.338

  3499

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  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

  2818

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  Introduction to the Special Section on Working on dreams, from psychotherapy to neuroscience

  Guido Giovanardi, Patricia Spangler

  2021-08-24

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2021.578

  6403

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