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• 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

  667

  PDF: 261

  SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 48

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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

  9735

  PDF: 2822

  Supplementary Material: 285

  HTML: 247

• 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

  1459

  PDF: 436

  SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 139

  HTML: 79

• Effectiveness of Jungian psychotherapy in supervised training settings

  Christian Roesler, Elisabeth Schörry-Volk, Anette Müller, Edem Dotse Zikpi, Wolfram Keller, Miray Kayacan

  2025-08-25

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2025.869

  3329

  PDF: 2392

  HTML: 65

• Trauma focused-cognitive behavioral therapy training effectiveness in promoting professional development of psychotherapists working with unaccompanied minors in Greece: a non-blinded randomized control trial

  Vasiliki Yotsidi, Theodora Anastasiou, Konstantinos Doulgeris, Panagiota Theodosiou, Clive Richardson

  2024-08-27

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.796

  1918

  PDF: 479

  HTML: 81
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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

  22906

  PDF: 6702

  HTML: 58368
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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

  23381

  PDF: 1195

  HTML: 34

• Research in psychoanalysis across theory and practice: a systematic literature review

  Cristina Marogna, Ciro De Vincenzo, Klodjana Lleshi, Elisa Paluan, Andrea Viecelli Giannotti

  2025-07-03

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2025.861

  4172

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  Listado de síntomas breve (short checklist of symptoms) in Argentinean adults: psychometric study of its main clinical scales

  Guadalupe de la Iglesia, Juliana Beatriz Stover, Mercedes Fernàndez Liporace, Alejandro Castro Solano

  2016-04-18

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2016.179

  2015

  PDF: 1080

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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

  2759

  PDF: 1144

  HTML: 849
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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

  11948

  PDF: 3168

  HTML: 94

• 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

  3168

  PDF: 1481

  HTML: 19

• 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

  1305

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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

  4159

  PDF: 1467

  HTML: 230
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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

  3757

  PDF: 1476

  HTML: 55

• 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

  429

  PDF: 163

  SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 29

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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

  2651

  PDF: 477

  HTML: 62

• 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

  2054

  PDF: 824

  HTML: 54
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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

  2396

  PDF: 1016

  HTML: 886

• 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

  1083

  PDF: 736

  SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 171

  HTML: 70

• 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

  3116

  PDF: 793

  SUPPLEMENTARY: 178

  HTML: 28

• 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

  851

  PDF: 362

  SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 167

  HTML: 95
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  Beyond the outcomes: generic change indicators in a video-feedback intervention with a depressed mother and her baby: a single case study

  Catalina Sieverson, Marcia Olhaberry, Javiera Duarte, Javier Morán-Kneer, Stefanella Costa, M. José León, Sofía Valenzuela, Fanny Leyton, Carolina Honorato, Antonia Muzard

  2022-03-04

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.584

  4094

  PDF: 754

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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

  2638

  PDF: 1302

  HTML: 2105

• 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

  4033

  PDF: 1433

  SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 165

  HTML: 76

• 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

  2932

  PDF: 667

  HTML: 60
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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

  2372

  PDF: 1138

  HTML: 536

• A systematic review on the role of therapist characteristics in the treatment of eating disorders

  Gaia Albano, Arianna Teti, Arianna Scrò, Rubinia Celeste Bonfanti, Lucia Fortunato, Gianluca Lo Coco

  2024-07-10

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.750

  3554

  PDF: 1234

  SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 266

  HTML: 202

• 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

  633

  PDF: 278

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  The clinical consequence of positive mental health in psychotherapy

  Mario Fulcheri, Danilo Carrozzino

  2017-07-13

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.280

  2093

  PDF: 852

  HTML: 178

• 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

  2058

  PDF: 940

  APPENDIX: 252

  SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS: 232

  HTML: 47
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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

  4082

  PDF: 1541

  HTML: 826
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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

  2715

  PDF: 972

  HTML: 2032
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  Virtue, well-being, and mentalized affectivity

  Elliot Jurist, David Greenberg, Marissa Pizziferro, Rozita Alaluf, Michael Perez Sosa

  2023-12-31

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2023.710

  2345

  PDF: 926

  Supplementary Material: 231

  HTML: 88

• Intensive Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy: A Treatment Overview and Empirical Basis

  Allan Abbass, Joel M. Town, Ellen Driessen

  6-15

  2013-08-17

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2013.84

  3821

  PDF: 4920
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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

  8702

  PDF: 2791

  HTML: 188
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  Effectiveness is the gold standard of clinical research

  Francesco Gazzillo, Adriano Schimmenti, Ivan Formica, Alessandra Simonelli, Sergio Salvatore

  2017-07-13

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.278

  2515

  PDF: 1317

  HTML: 643

• 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

  2487

  PDF: 457

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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

  8094

  PDF: 3149

  HTML: 887

• Psychological interventions in the Italian national health system: appropriateness and accountability

  Alessandro Ridolfi

  2024-08-26

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.820

  2081

  PDF: 381

  HTML: 34

• Shaping psychotherapy trainees’ potential: insights from training program directors

  Irene Messina, Giovanna Trimoldi

  2024-08-27

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.799

  2613

  PDF: 743

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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

  3268

  PDF: 1432

  HTML: 2078
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  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

  5964

  PDF: 1686

  HTML: 185
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  The relationship between epistemic stance, mentalizing, paranoid distress and conspiracy mentality: an empirical investigation

  Sophie Hauschild, Lea A. Kasper, Anna Berning, Svenja Taubner

  2023-12-28

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2023.706

  2150

  PDF: 760

  HTML: 82
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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

  2948

  PDF: 1141

  HTML: 163
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  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

  2266

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  Psychological treatments are as effective as pharmacotherapies in the treatment of adult depression: a summary from Randomized Clinical Trials and neuroscience evidence

  Pim Cuijpers, Claudio Gentili

  2017-07-13

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.273

  3577

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  Introducing the QACP: development and preliminary validation of an instrument to measure psychotherapist’s core competencies

  Michele Settanni, Monica Bronzini, Giuseppe Carzedda, Giuseppe Godino, Maria Luisa Manca, Luisa Martini, Gianluca Provvedi, Francesco Quilghini, Alberto Zucconi, Gianni Francesetti

  2022-08-01

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.599

  3294

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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

  1509

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  When and for whom do psychodynamic therapists use guided imagery? Explicating practitioners’ tacit knowledge

  Jule Bauckhage, Christian Sell

  2021-12-20

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2021.577

  3170

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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

  5617

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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

  3330

  PDF: 938

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• Does technique matter? A multilevel meta-analysis on the association between psychotherapeutic techniques and outcome

  Christin Janine Grevenhaus, Christoph Flückiger, Lea Theimer, Cord Benecke

  2024-08-29

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.803

  5231

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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

  1504

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  SUPPLEMENTARY: 99

  HTML: 21
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  The influence of pharmaceutical companies

  Paolo Migone

  2017-07-13

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.276

  2771

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  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

  5276

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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

  2828

  PDF: 1380

  HTML: 161

• 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

  3247

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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

  6031

  PDF: 2374

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  A proposed conceptualization of therapeutic competence: the three level model

  Christine Koddebusch, Christiane Hermann

  2018-04-12

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2018.286

  3624

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  HTML: 1120
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  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

  2790

  PDF: 877

  HTML: 65

• Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing versus cognitive behavioral therapy in the treatment of inpatients with obesity, binge eating disorder, and traumatic experiences: a randomized controlled trial

  Anna Guerrini Usubini, Gian Mauro Manzoni, Giada Pietrabissa, Caterina Nicolazzi, Annalisa Caretti, Chiara Merlini, Valentina Villa, Alessandro Sartorio, Gianluca Castelnuovo

  2026-02-16

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2026.886

  1063

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  Effectiveness of and processes related to internet-delivered acceptance and commitment therapy for adolescents with anxiety disorders: a randomized controlled trial

  Linnea Nissling, Sandra Weineland, Kristofer Vernmark, Ella Radvogin, Anna-Karin Engström, Sara Schmidt, Eva Nieto Granberg, Elin Larsson, Timo Hursti

  2023-07-04

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2023.681

  4116

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  HTML: 129
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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

  2322

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  HTML: 471
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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

  4189

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  HTML: 87
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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

  3420

  PDF: 1211

  Supplementary Material: 182

  HTML: 572
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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

  3612

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  HTML: 1364
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  Facilitative interpersonal skills are relevant in child therapy too, so why don’t we measure them?

  Jordan Bate, Angelica Tsakas

  2022-05-09

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.595

  2563

  PDF: 1226

  HTML: 47
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  From turn-by-turn to larger chunks of talk: An exploratory study in psychotherapeutic micro-processes using conversation analysis

  Michael B. Buchholz, Horst Kächele

  2017-10-27

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.257

  2367

  PDF: 1198

  HTML: 448
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  Esoteric power, useless, useful: considerations about dreams in cognitive-behavioural therapy

  Antonino Carcione, Marta Santonastaso, Francesca Sferruzza, Ilaria Riccardi

  2021-08-30

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2021.543

  3407

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  HTML: 132
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  Analytical psychodrama with college students suffering from mental health problems: Preliminary outcomes

  Roberta Biolcati, Francesca Agostini, Giacomo Mancini

  2017-10-27

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.272

  2827

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  HTML: 608

• Developing relational competence in psychotherapy training: a qualitative study of trainees’ perspectives

  Giovanna Trimoldi, Marco Sambin, Pietro Spataro, Giulia Gagliardini, Irene Messina

  2026-04-22

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2026.890

  578

  PDF: 195

  HTML: 3
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  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

  2825

  PDF: 863

  Supplementary Material: 187

  HTML: 44

• Patient experiences in receiving virtual psychotherapy: a qualitative study

  Giorgio A. Tasca, Andie Storozuk, Victoria Klimkowski, Emily O’Connor, Stephanie Baker, Danielle Baldwin, Stephanie A. Houle, Camille Garceau, John Sylvestre

  2026-03-04

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2026.888

  691

  PDF: 289

  SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 45

  HTML: 18

• Speaking about therapists Old questions and some answers derived from empirical evidence

  Santo Di Nuovo

  52–75

  2011-12-28

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2011.22

  1303

  PDF: 971

• 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

  756

  PDF: 520

  HTML: 82

• "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

  1193

  PDF: 576

  SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 136

  HTML: 20

• 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

  1178

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