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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

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PDF: 771

SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 234

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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

3788

PDF: 877

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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

903

PDF: 452

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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

2879

PDF: 1475

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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

1364

PDF: 731

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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

4069

PDF: 911

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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

4320

PDF: 1487

Supplementary Material: 270

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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

2550

PDF: 1348

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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

1220

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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

1177

PDF: 626

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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

4635

PDF: 1715

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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

1506

PDF: 595

SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 243

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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

2226

PDF: 847

SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 153

SUPPLEMENTARY R MARKDOWN: 79

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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

3301

PDF: 1870

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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

3575

PDF: 1702

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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

2215

PDF: 1038

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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

2397

PDF: 2987
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

2241

PDF: 954

SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 242

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Group dynamic-relational therapy for perfectionism

Samuel F. Mikail, Paul L. Hewitt, Gordon L. Flett, Sabrina Ge

2022-09-01

https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.635

4627

PDF: 1328

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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

4856

PDF: 1508

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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

3432

PDF: 1409

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Preliminary findings from a brief psychodynamic counseling program for university staff: users’ psychological characteristics and implications for the program’s utility

Alessia Renzi, Eleonora Piacentini, Vittorio Lingiardi

2026-07-31

https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2026.897

294

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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

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PDF: 1155

APPENDIX: 448

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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

5137

PDF: 1812

SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 240

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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

2604

PDF: 5987
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

4733

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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

2566

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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

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SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 214

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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

5621

PDF: 1454

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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

9600

PDF: 3615

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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

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A systematic review of patient-therapist synchrony as an indicator of emotion regulation in psychotherapy: an integrated approach Patient-therapist synchrony and emotion regulation

Federica Ameli, Federico Abbarchi Minucci, Ludovica Zanini, Gioele Calmi, Grazia Fernanda Spitoni

2025-09-30

https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2025.866

1535

PDF: 1129

SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 285

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Online Supportive Group as social intervention to face COVID lockdown. A qualitative study on psychotherapists, psychology trainees and students, and community people

Emanuela Brusadelli, Laura Ferrari, Michele Benetti, Stefania Bruzzese, Giada Maria Tonelli, Salvatore Gullo

2021-01-20

https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2020.501

2817

PDF: 1273

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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

5248

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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

1568

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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

3715

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New horizons in group psychotherapy research and practice from third wave positive psychology: a practice-friendly review

Cheri L. Marmarosh, Steven Sandage, Nathaniel Wade, Laura E. Captari, Sarah Crabtree

2022-11-04

https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.643

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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

5523

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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

11821

PDF: 3431

Supplementary Material: 403

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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

56809

PDF: 3550

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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

2980

PDF: 1317

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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

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PDF: 2768

Appendix: 629

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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

3596

PDF: 1524

Supplementary Material: 251

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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

2424

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Reliability and factorial validity of long and brief versions of the inventory of personality organization in a Latvian sample

Aija de Starceva-Apele, Malgozata Rascevska

2022-06-30

https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.606

3133

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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

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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

2624

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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

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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

7915

PDF: 3074

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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

5187

PDF: 1467

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Negative and positive ageism in an Italian sample: how ageist beliefs relate to epistemic trust, psychological distress, and well-being

Alice Fiorini Bincoletto, Ludovica Zanini, Grazia Fernanda Spitoni, Vittorio Lingiardi

2023-07-27

https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2023.676

3466

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