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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

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SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 35

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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

1001

PDF: 646

SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 198

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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

4718

PDF: 1309

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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

3490

PDF: 1444

HTML: 126
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

842

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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

5253

PDF: 1180

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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

1654

PDF: 508

SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 150

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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

12471

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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

2854

PDF: 539

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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

3241

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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

2795

PDF: 1440

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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

11831

PDF: 3767

Supplementary Material: 321

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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

2521

PDF: 934

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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

1216

PDF: 764

SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 176

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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

3669

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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

809

PDF: 370

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

Guillermo de la Parra, Paula Dagnino, Camila ValdÃ©s, Mariane Krause

2017-04-19

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

2718

PDF: 1295

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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

2403

PDF: 1158

HTML: 538
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

3047

PDF: 688

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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

4145

PDF: 1559

HTML: 830
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

8697

PDF: 1986

Appendix: 191

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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

1481

PDF: 905

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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

2687

PDF: 1323

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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

2538

PDF: 487

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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

6729

PDF: 1551

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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

3400

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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

10006

PDF: 2932

Supplementary Material: 301

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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

3375

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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

2596

PDF: 902

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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

3589

PDF: 1250

Supplementary Material: 190

HTML: 584
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

2552

PDF: 935

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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

2769

PDF: 984

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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

55502

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In-session emotional experiencing in brief psychotherapy conducted by trainee psychologists: process, alliance, and the role of therapist persuasiveness

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

Psychodiagnostic Chart-Child (PDC-C): a valid and clinically sensitive diagnostic tool for patient-tailored intervention planning

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

Professional burnout in therapists working with LGBTQ+ patients: associations with defenses and reflective functioning

Advancement in the child attachment interview and the child and adolescent reflective functioning scale using a PDM-2 framework: case reports

Clinical applications of the Defense Mechanisms Rating Scale-Self-Report-30: a systematic review of the first five years

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

The relationship between defense mechanisms and attachment: a narrative review

Defense mechanisms and inflammatory bowel diseases: a narrative review

Problematic internet use in emerging adulthood to escape from maternal helicopter parenting: defensive functioning as a mediating mechanism

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

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

Effect of defense mechanisms on the longitudinal development of interpersonal problems during outpatient therapy

A proposed conceptualization of therapeutic competence: the three level model

Applying the Defense Mechanisms Rating Scales Q-sort to assess patients’ level of overall defensive functioning in interview data: validity and reliability

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

Referential activity, dissociation, psychopathology and psychotherapy

Therapists’ defense use impacts their patients’ defensive functioning: a systematic case study

Assessing children’s defense mechanisms with the Defense Mechanisms Rating Scales Q-sort for Children

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

Revisiting defense mechanisms in contemporary clinical practice: evidence and perspectives

Beyond the mask of deference: exploring the relationship between ruptures and transference in a single-case study

The role of suicidal motivations in adolescence: implications for the psychotherapeutic treatment of suicidal risk

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

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

Epistemic trust: a comprehensive review of empirical insights and implications for developmental psychopathology

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

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

Defense mechanisms are associated with mental health symptoms across six countries

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

The contributions of Sidney J. Blatt: a personal and intellectual biography

Mentalization, attachment, and defense mechanisms: a Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual-2-oriented empirical investigation

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