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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

948

PDF: 520

SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 164

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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

1017

PDF: 411

HTML: 52
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

3115

PDF: 1464

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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

581

PDF: 215

SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 38

SUPPLEMENTARY R MARKDOWN: 18

HTML: 11
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

2798

PDF: 641

HTML: 59
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

1166

PDF: 385

SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 131

HTML: 77
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

688

PDF: 313

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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

3258

PDF: 1192

Supplementary Material: 176

HTML: 560
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

4007

PDF: 1528

HTML: 814
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

2523

PDF: 1013

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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

603

PDF: 258

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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

1187

PDF: 738

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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

781

PDF: 300

SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 158

HTML: 80
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

1792

PDF: 864

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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

2607

PDF: 1277

HTML: 2094
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

722

PDF: 330

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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

2733

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Defensive mechanisms and personality structure in an early adolescent boy: process and outcome issues in a non-intensive psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy

Daniela Di Riso, Alessandro Gennaro, Silvia Salcuni

2015-12-23

https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2015.176

2188

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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

3053

PDF: 774

SUPPLEMENTARY: 172

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Supportive psychotherapy and defense mechanisms: A Comment on the case of Matilde

Jonathan Petraglia

43–51

2011-12-28

https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2011.67

1252

PDF: 947
Defense mechanisms in adolescents at high risk of developing psychosis: An empirical investigation

Tommaso Boldrini, Gabriele Lo Buglio, Guido Giovanardi, Vittorio Lingiardi, Silvia Salcuni

2020-05-20

https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2020.456

4424

PDF: 1335

HTML: 140
A supportive approach in psychodynamic-oriented psychotherapy. An empirically supported single case study.

Daniela Di Riso, Antonello Colli, Daphne Chessa, Cristina Marogna, Valeria Condino, Adriana Lis, Vittorio Lingiardi, Stefania Mannarini

49–89

2011-05-18

https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2011.43

2176

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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

9583

PDF: 2714

Supplementary Material: 272

HTML: 238
Referential activity, dissociation, psychopathology and psychotherapy

Raffaella Perrella, Nadia Del Villano, Giorgio Caviglia

2016-11-11

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

2359

PDF: 1117

HTML: 530
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

5123

PDF: 1647

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Mental footnotes: knowledge constructivism from logical thinking to personal beliefs and therapy

Jose L. Vilchez

2016-11-07

https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2016.234

2139

PDF: 1092

HTML: 374
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

3920

PDF: 1395

SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 158

HTML: 76
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

7808

PDF: 3083

HTML: 856
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

2767

PDF: 1302

HTML: 1423
How anxious did you feel during lockdown? The roles resilience, living environment, and gender play on the level of anxiety state during pandemic isolation

Violeta Stefania Rotărescu, Diana Bianca Matei, Ioana Alexandra Mircea, Andreea Maria Mirescu, Bogdan George Nedelescu, Daniela Georgiana Nedelea, Alexandra Nicoleta Raluca Neagu, Alexandru George Necșulescu, Gabriel Angelo Oteșanu, Lucian Constantin Tudor

2021-01-14

https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2020.496

5471

PDF: 1398

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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

3266

PDF: 1227

HTML: 321
The flip side of collaborative alliance: a single-case study

Francesca Locati, Pietro De Carli, Margherita Lang, Laura Parolin

2019-07-30

https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2019.384

1648

PDF: 1229

APPENDIX: 334

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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

2452

PDF: 445

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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

5543

PDF: 2254

HTML: 206

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Effect of defense mechanisms on the longitudinal development of interpersonal problems during outpatient therapy

The relationship between defense mechanisms and attachment: a narrative review

Defense mechanisms and inflammatory bowel diseases: a narrative review

Examining the factor structure of the 40-item Defense Style Questionnaire among adults with depression: an individual participant data meta-analysis

Therapists’ defense use impacts their patients’ defensive functioning: a systematic case study

Clinical applications of the Defense Mechanisms Rating Scale-Self-Report-30: a systematic review of the first five years

Applying the Defense Mechanisms Rating Scales Q-sort to assess patients’ level of overall defensive functioning in interview data: validity and reliability

Defense mechanisms are associated with mental health symptoms across six countries

Assessing children’s defense mechanisms with the Defense Mechanisms Rating Scales Q-sort for Children

Problematic internet use in emerging adulthood to escape from maternal helicopter parenting: defensive functioning as a mediating mechanism

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

Revisiting defense mechanisms in contemporary clinical practice: evidence and perspectives

Defense mechanisms and social mentalities in grandiose narcissism: an empirical investigation

Psychological impairment in inflammatory bowel diseases: the key role of coping and defense mechanisms

Beyond the mask of deference: exploring the relationship between ruptures and transference in a single-case study

Professional burnout in therapists working with LGBTQ+ patients: associations with defenses and reflective functioning

Assessing personality change with Blatt's anaclitic and introjective configurations and Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure profiles: two case studies in psychodynamic treatment

Defensive mechanisms and personality structure in an early adolescent boy: process and outcome issues in a non-intensive psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy

Suicidality and self-compassion in patients with major depressive disorder: the mediating role of the avoidant attachment type

Supportive psychotherapy and defense mechanisms: A Comment on the case of Matilde

Defense mechanisms in adolescents at high risk of developing psychosis: An empirical investigation

A supportive approach in psychodynamic-oriented psychotherapy. An empirically supported single case study.

Epistemic trust: a comprehensive review of empirical insights and implications for developmental psychopathology

Referential activity, dissociation, psychopathology and psychotherapy

Transference-focused psychotherapy in an inpatient setting for borderline personality disorders: changes in symptomatology

Mental footnotes: knowledge constructivism from logical thinking to personal beliefs and therapy

Transference interpretation and psychotherapy outcome: a systematic review of a no-consensus relationship

Motivations to become psychotherapists: beyond the concept of the wounded healer

Identifying predictors associated with the severity of eating concerns in females with eating disorders

How anxious did you feel during lockdown? The roles resilience, living environment, and gender play on the level of anxiety state during pandemic isolation

Personality characteristics, music-listening, and well-being: a systematic and scoping review

The flip side of collaborative alliance: a single-case study

The role of suicidal motivations in adolescence: implications for the psychotherapeutic treatment of suicidal risk

Attachment orientations and emotion regulation: new insights from the study of interpersonal emotion regulation strategies

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