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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

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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

  3708

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• Dream processes and affect regulation in psychotherapy: a longitudinal clinical case study

  Dorottya Bíró, Péter Osváth, Mátyás Mészáros

  2026-07-31

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2026.895

  235

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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

  2193

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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

  14464

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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

  3271

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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

  3558

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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

  2506

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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

  2737

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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

  5575

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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

  271

  PDF: 157

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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

  4598

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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

  3919

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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

  2546

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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

  1336

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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

  2429

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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

  3716

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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

  1192

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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

  3951

  PDF: 1909

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• 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

  1170

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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

  11713

  PDF: 3387

  Supplementary Material: 398

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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

  2796

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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

  2847

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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

  4231

  PDF: 1461

  Supplementary Material: 266

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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

  56739

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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

  2176

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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

  2752

  PDF: 1134

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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

  1165

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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

  3011

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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

  3588

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