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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
    1093
    PDF: 742
    SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 171
    HTML: 70
  • 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
    3177
    PDF: 1482
    HTML: 19
  • 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
    2665
    PDF: 478
    HTML: 62
  • 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
    1011
    PDF: 428
    SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 51
    SUPPLEMENTARY R MARKDOWN: 24
    HTML: 14
  • 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
    1470
    PDF: 441
    SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 139
    HTML: 79
  • 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
    2935
    PDF: 667
    HTML: 60
  • 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
    745
    PDF: 344
    HTML: 77
  • 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
    4085
    PDF: 1541
    HTML: 826
  • 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
    3428
    PDF: 1212
    Supplementary Material: 184
    HTML: 573
  • 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
    1312
    PDF: 816
    HTML: 117
  • 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
    2636
    PDF: 1401
    HTML: 105
  • 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
    634
    PDF: 416
    HTML: 81
  • 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
    635
    PDF: 278
    HTML: 19
  • 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
    857
    PDF: 364
    SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 167
    HTML: 95
  • 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
    1855
    PDF: 884
    HTML: 32
  • 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
    765
    PDF: 528
    HTML: 82
  • 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
    2641
    PDF: 1303
    HTML: 2105
  • 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
    2198
    PDF: 2624
  • 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
    2760
    PDF: 1145
    HTML: 849
  • 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
    4665
    PDF: 1291
    HTML: 46
  • 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
    1276
    PDF: 959
  • 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
    4494
    PDF: 1356
    HTML: 142
  • 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
    5210
    PDF: 1669
    HTML: 24
  • 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
    5183
    PDF: 1159
    HTML: 34
  • In-session emotional experiencing in brief psychotherapy conducted by trainee psychologists: process, alliance, and the role of therapist persuasiveness

    Andreia Soares, Laura Ladislau, Ana Aleixo, João M. Santos, Daniel Sousa
    2026-04-29
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2026.891
    431
    PDF: 163
    SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 29
    HTML: 2
  • 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
    2056
    PDF: 826
    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
    3120
    PDF: 794
    SUPPLEMENTARY: 179
    HTML: 29
  • 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
    2204
    PDF: 5492
  • 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
    8100
    PDF: 3151
    HTML: 887
  • 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
    55317
    PDF: 3190
    HTML: 333
  • Referential activity, dissociation, psychopathology and psychotherapy

    Raffaella Perrella, Nadia Del Villano, Giorgio Caviglia
    2016-11-11
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2016.243
    2372
    PDF: 1138
    HTML: 536
  • The Model of Sequential Brief-Adlerian Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (SB-APP): Specific Features in the Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder

    Andrea Ferrero
    32-45
    2012-10-13
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2012.93
    3534
    PDF: 2321
  • 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
    2420
    PDF: 1021
    APPENDIX: 372
    HTML: 2102
  • 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
    5501
    PDF: 1412
    HTML: 28
  • 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
    3319
    PDF: 862
    HTML: 29
  • 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
    4039
    PDF: 1437
    SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 165
    HTML: 76
  • 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
    9742
    PDF: 2825
    Supplementary Material: 285
    HTML: 248
  • 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
    3386
    PDF: 1264
    HTML: 326
  • 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
    2165
    PDF: 1103
    HTML: 374
  • 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
    2791
    PDF: 877
    HTML: 65
  • 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
    674
    PDF: 263
    SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 48
    HTML: 19
  • 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
    6047
    PDF: 2380
    HTML: 232
  • 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
    842
    PDF: 577
    HTML: 80
  • Exploring the impacts of COVID-19 related social distancing on loneliness, psychological needs and symptomatology

    Bruno Faustino, António Branco Vasco, João Delgado, António Farinha-Fernandes, José Carlos Guerreiro
    2021-01-14
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2020.492
    4041
    PDF: 888
    HTML: 18
  • 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
    3330
    PDF: 939
    HTML: 43
  • "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
    1196
    PDF: 578
    SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 136
    HTML: 20
  • 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
    2489
    PDF: 457
    HTML: 8
  • 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
    2304
    PDF: 689
    HTML: 26
  • Dreaming in quarantine: linguistic analysis of referential process of dreams during COVID-19 pandemic lockdown

    Rachele Mariani, Silvia Monaco, Christopher Christian , Michela Di Trani
    2021-08-24
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2021.537
    3936
    PDF: 866
    HTML: 116
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