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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

  1175

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  SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 65

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  More than one way home - Student raters' impressions of interventions and group processes in mentalisation based group psychotherapy and group analytic psychotherapy

  Johannes Pries, Alexander Niecke, Annekatrin Vetter, Ulrich Schultz-Venrath

  2022-12-29

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.642

  4923

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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

  2536

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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

  3031

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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

  6062

  PDF: 1718

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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

  4244

  PDF: 1141

  HTML: 87

• 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

  4124

  PDF: 1480

  SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 169

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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

  2455

  PDF: 1030

  APPENDIX: 377

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  Saving a seat at the table for community members: co-creating an attachment-based intervention for low-income Latinx parent-youth dyads using a promotor/a model

  Jessica L. Borelli, Lyric N. Russo, Jose Arreola, Breana R. Cervantes, Christina M. Marquez, Gloria Montiel, Vanessa Avalos, Jacqueline Carballo, Jackie Garcia, Isha Bhatt, Gina Torres, Francisca Leal, Nancy Guerra

  2022-02-04

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.598

  4332

  PDF: 1138

  Appendix: 330

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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

  959

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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

  2852

  PDF: 1114

  HTML: 608

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

  Irene Messina, Giovanna Trimoldi

  2024-08-27

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

  2681

  PDF: 762

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  The extended unconscious group field and metabolization of pandemic experience: dreaming together to keep cohesion alive

  Cristina Marogna, Chiara Masaro, Vincenzo Calvo, Simona Ghedin, Floriana Caccamo

  2022-12-29

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.646

  1491

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  HTML: 27

• 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

  483

  PDF: 182

  SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 34

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• 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

  839

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  SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 56

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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

  2390

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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

  5327

  PDF: 1906

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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

  429

  PDF: 178

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• 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

  3657

  PDF: 1272

  SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 272

  HTML: 211

• 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

  881

  PDF: 344

  SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 59

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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

  1563

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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

  1234

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  SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 140

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  Facets of the psychotherapy relationship: a metaphorical approach

  Tomáš Řiháček, Jan Roubal, Katarína Motalová

  2021-01-14

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2020.468

  2146

  PDF: 798

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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

  2609

  PDF: 1250

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• Differentiating self-disclosure interventions from self-involving interventions based on the assessment of the short-term therapeutic effects: preliminary results

  Fabio Monticelli, Chiara Massullo, Antonino Carcione, Lucia Tombolini, Flaminia Guerra, Marianna Liotti, Cecilia Monticelli, Elena Gasperini, Marianna Russo, Samanta Novaretto, Letizia La Vista, Paola Mallozzi, Claudio Imperatori, Chiara Del Brutto, Benedetto Farina

  2025-02-10

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2025.800

  3896

  PDF: 1950

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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

  668

  PDF: 296

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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

  5304

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  Personal therapeutic approach in Gestalt therapists working with clients suffering from medically unexplained psychosomatic symptoms

  Jan Roubal, Roman Hytych, Michal Čevelíček, Tomáš Řiháček

  2021-12-20

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2021.535

  8666

  PDF: 1982

  Appendix: 190

  HTML: 93
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  Acceptability of an adventure video game in the treatment of female adolescents with symptoms of depression

  Alvaro E. Carrasco

  2016-04-18

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2016.182

  8128

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  The real relationship: the Portuguese version of the Real Relationship Inventory-Client form

  Pedro Rodrigues Ribeiro, David Dias Neto

  2023-07-05

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2023.678

  2368

  PDF: 998

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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

  3009

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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

  3606

  PDF: 2655

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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

  2419

  PDF: 1029

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  Adolescents’ experiences of psychotherapy following child sexual abuse

  Rosaleen McElvaney, Andrina Monaghan, Christina Treacy, Naoise Delaney

  2023-07-04

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2023.630

  2630

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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

  2131

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  Psychotherapy with two late adulthood children of the colonies

  Zelda Gillian Knight

  2017-10-27

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.287

  1577

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  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

  2333

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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

  2758

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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

  675

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• Impact of personality traits, coping styles, and anger on psychological symptoms of patients with arterial hypertension Psychological factors in arterial hypertension

  Francesca Giordano, Sara Guidotti, Clemente Salerno, Carlo Pruneti, Omar Carlo Gioacchino Gelo

  2025-07-31

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2025.867

  1368

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• Something has sort of opened up for me: psychology students’ reflections after participating in an apprenticeship training model

  Nina Jakhelln Laugen, Torun Grøtte, Truls Ryum, Patrick A. Vogel, Heidi Brattland, Katrine Høyer Holgersen

  2024-08-27

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.794

  2948

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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

  2682

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  The relevance of social dreaming for action research: exploring jail workers’ unconscious thinking of the changes in the prison organization

  Lidia Borghi, Claudio Cassardo, Elisa Mingarelli, Elena Vegni

  2021-08-12

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2021.542

  6864

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  Appendix: 321

• 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

  3185

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• 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

  2464

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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

  3151

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• Trans in treatment: a mixed-method systematic review on the psychotherapeutic experiences of transgender and gender diverse people Transgender people’s experiences of psychotherapy

  Selene Mezzalira, Nicola Carone, Vincenzo Bochicchio, Sofia Villani, Gianluca Cruciani, Maria Quintigliano, Cristiano Scandurra

  2025-02-28

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2025.834

  4245

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  SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 805

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  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

  3976

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  A theoretical and clinical perspective of an embodied view in psychotherapy of somatic symptoms disorders

  Maria Eugenia Moneta, Horst Kaechele

  2023-08-25

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2023.605

  2507

  PDF: 924

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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

  918

  PDF: 395

  SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 178

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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

  2538

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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

  6333

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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

  3107

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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

  5687

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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

  1627

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  SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 146

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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

  1206

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  SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 173

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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

  2532

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  Exploring maternal reflective functioning as a predictor of mother-child dyadic behaviour over time in a clinical context

  Lindsey Myers, Howard Steele, Miriam Steele, Anne Murphy

  2022-04-27

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.594

  2547

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• The relationship among attachment styles, interpersonal needs, and suicidal ideation in patients with psychiatric disorders

  Salvatore Sarubbi, Elena Rogante, Denise Erbuto, Monica Migliorati, Isabella Berardelli, Marco Innamorati, Maurizio Pompili

  2024-12-30

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.785

  2977

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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

  2783

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• Are there gender and age differences in the effect of coping strategies on suicidal ideation among adolescents? The mediating role of emotional intelligence

  Anyerson Stiths Gómez-Tabares, Jorge Emiro Restrepo

  2025-07-31

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2025.843

  1560

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  Dreaming during COVID-19: the effects of a world trauma

  Cristina Marogna, Emanuele Montanari, Silvio Contiero, Klodjana Lleshi

  2021-08-24

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2021.541

  4360

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• 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

  4331

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  Till the ocean do us part: Italian and American therapists representations of stepfamilies in treatment

  Monica Accordini, Scott Browning, Marialuisa Gennari, Kevin McCarthy, Davide Margola

  2017-10-27

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.271

  1390

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  The forward edge transference within self-psychology and the activation of inborn capacity through interpretation and internalization

  Zelda G. Knight

  2021-12-20

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2021.550

  3895

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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

  3336

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