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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

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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

  3001

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• 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

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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

  5125

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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

  1281

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  The contribution of Sidney Blatt's two-polarities model to the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual

  Vittorio Lingiardi, Nancy McWilliams, Laura Muzi

  2017-04-13

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.242

  4665

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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

  1137

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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

  3674

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  The Italian version of the Depressive Experiences Questionnaire: psychometric properties and validation in students, community, and clinical groups

  Giorgio Falgares, Sandro De Santis, Salvatore Gullo, Danilo Carrozzino, Daniela Marchetti, Maria Cristina Verrocchio, Gianluca Lo Coco, Daniel Kopala-Sibley, Osmano Oasi

  2017-04-13

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.227

  3124

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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

  2419

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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

  2768

  PDF: 606

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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

  1446

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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

  5525

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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

  4546

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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

  4193

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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

  3636

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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

  3812

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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

  11555

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  Supplementary Material: 390

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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

  2797

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  Depression and attachment: how do personality styles and social support influence this relation?

  Paula Dagnino, Carola Pèrez, Adriana Gòmez, Sergio Gloger, Mariane Krause

  2017-04-13

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.237

  6694

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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

  2137

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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

  1161

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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

  2434

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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

  3354

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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

  3237

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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

  3520

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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

  5381

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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

  4124

  PDF: 1449

  Supplementary Material: 243

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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

  1312

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  Different epistemic stances for different traumatic experiences: implications for mentalization

  Ilaria Maria Antonietta Benzi, Nicola Carone, Laura Parolin, Gabriel Martin-Gagnon, Karin Ensink, Andrea Fontana

  2023-12-20

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2023.708

  3480

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  Supplementary Material: 240

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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

  2284

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  Coping strategies and mental health: A web-based survey among the Italian population dealing with COVID-19

  Chiara Rossi, Francesca De Salve, Martina Agliati, Osmano Oasi

  2022-07-01

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.609

  3811

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• Coping with shame: the role of self-reflective capacities in perceiving others as empathic

  Georgia J. Bush, Andrew F. Luchner

  2025-03-30

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2025.824

  3708

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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

  252

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• 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

  3544

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  Attachment styles, mental health, and trauma during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic in an Italian adult population

  Elena Ierardi, Marta Bottini, Emanuele Preti, Rossella Di Pierro, Fabio Madeddu, Cristina Riva Crugnola

  2023-12-31

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2023.689

  1573

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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

  4548

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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

  3117

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  Personal Projects Analysis as an idiographic approach in psychotherapy: an exploratory study

  Margarida Pedroso de Lima, Isabel Albuquerque, Paulo Jorge Martins, António-José Gonzalez

  2023-05-08

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2023.668

  2079

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• Relational skills and self-awareness outcomes in psychotherapy trainees

  Elitsa Tilkidzhieva, Salvatore Gullo, Jutta Fiegl, Andrea Jesser, Omar Carlo Gioacchino Gelo

  2026-08-31

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2026.898

  130

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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

  2479

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  Identifying predictors associated with the severity of eating concerns in females with eating disorders

  Stefania Cella, Annarosa Cipriano, Mara Iannaccone, Paolo Cotrufo

  2017-04-13

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.199

  2978

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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

  1379

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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

  9369

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  The effect of positive psychotherapy in test anxiety among Zahedan students with hemophilia

  Mahbobe Ghavidel Heydari, Mahmoud Shirazi, Gholam Reza Sanagouyemoharer

  2018-04-12

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2018.307

  2486

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  Change during psychotherapy: the perspective of children and adolescents who have been sexually abused

  Claudia Capella, Carolina Gutiérrez, Loreto Rodrìguez, Camila Gòmez

  2018-04-12

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2018.288

  2537

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