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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

  745

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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

  4554

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  Effectiveness of internet-delivered dialectical behavior therapy skills training on executive functions among college students with borderline personality traits: a non-randomized controlled trial

  CV Vijayapriya, Rameshbabu Tamarana

  2023-10-30

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2023.694

  3317

  PDF: 1346

  HTML: 118

• 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

  650

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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

  5047

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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

  1003

  PDF: 314

  SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 119

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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

  11104

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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

  856

  PDF: 337

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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

  3045

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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

  2426

  PDF: 973

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• Therapist self-awareness and perception of actual performance: the effects of listening to one recorded session

  Raquel Pereira, António Pazo Pires, David Neto

  2024-02-15

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.722

  10806

  PDF: 3437

  Supplementary Material: 306

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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

  2395

  PDF: 843

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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

  822

  PDF: 309

  SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 146

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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

  3551

  PDF: 1718

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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

  611

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  Beyond self-criticism and dependency: structural functioning of depressive patients and its treatment

  Guillermo de la Parra, Paula Dagnino, Camila Valdés, Mariane Krause

  2017-04-19

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.236

  2621

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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

  2346

  PDF: 1100

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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

  2728

  PDF: 612

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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

  3924

  PDF: 1504

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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

  8223

  PDF: 1881

  Appendix: 174

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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

  1027

  PDF: 650

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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

  2579

  PDF: 1263

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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

  2399

  PDF: 425

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• The person behind the therapist: a recall study on significant events that contribute to therapists’ personal and professional development

  Hubert de Condé, Emmanuelle Zech, Jochem Willemsen

  2024-08-29

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.791

  6095

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  A proposal for a brief-term post-adoption intervention in the attachment-perspective: a single case study with a late-adopted child and his adoptive mother

  Cecilia Serena Pace, Ester D'Onofrio, Viviana Guerriero, Giulio Cesare Zavattini

  2016-04-18

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2016.197

  3267

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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

  9310

  PDF: 2592

  Supplementary Material: 264

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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

  3191

  PDF: 1129

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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

  2651

  PDF: 940

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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

  54936

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  Reflective functioning and personal recovery process of users with borderline personality disorder on Instagram: an explorative study using computerized and thematic analysis

  Giovanna Esposito, Viviana Perla, Raffaella Passeggia, Erik Fertuck, Erhard Mergenthaler

  2021-01-18

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2020.463

  2449

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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

  3071

  PDF: 1150

  Supplementary Material: 174

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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

  2445

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