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  How anxious did you feel during lockdown? The roles resilience, living environment, and gender play on the level of anxiety state during pandemic isolation

  Violeta Stefania Rotărescu, Diana Bianca Matei, Ioana Alexandra Mircea, Andreea Maria Mirescu, Bogdan George Nedelescu, Daniela Georgiana Nedelea, Alexandra Nicoleta Raluca Neagu, Alexandru George Necșulescu, Gabriel Angelo Oteșanu, Lucian Constantin Tudor

  2021-01-14

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2020.496

  5503

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  Dreaming during lockdown: a quali-quantitative analysis of the Italian population dreams during the first COVID-19 pandemic wave

  Lidia Borghi, Federica Bonazza, Giulia Lamiani, Alessandro Musetti, Tommaso Manari, Maria Filosa, Maria C. Quattropani, Vittorio Lenzo, Maria Francesca Freda, Daniela Lemmo, Emanuela Saita, Roberto Cattivelli, Gianluca Castelnuovo, Elena Vegni, Christian Franceschini

  2021-08-24

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2021.547

  4276

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  ‘Isolated together’: online group treatments during the COVID-19 pandemic. A systematic review

  Giorgia Margherita, Benedetta Muzii, Alessia Caffieri, Adriana Di Francia, Brenda Somma

  2022-11-04

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.639

  3490

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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

  1479

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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

  3397

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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

  5185

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  Going through the lockdown: a longitudinal study on the psychological consequences of the coronavirus pandemic

  Salvatore Gullo, Ilaria Misici, Arianna Teti, Michele Liuzzi, Enrico Chiara

  2021-01-20

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2020.494

  4565

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• 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

  3124

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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

  770

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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

  3599

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  Facing the coronavirus pandemic era

  Emanuela Brusadelli, Christian Schubert, Silvia Salcuni

  2021-01-14

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2020.509

  2840

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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

  6481

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  The catcher in the mind: validation of the brief-mentalized affectivity scale for adolescents in the Italian population

  Marianna Liotti, Alice Fiorini Bincoletto, Fabiola Bizzi, Marta Tironi, Simone Charpentier Mora, Donatella Cavanna, Guido Giovanardi, Elliot Jurist, Anna Maria Speranza, Vittorio Lingiardi, Annalisa Tanzilli

  2023-12-31

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2023.709

  2794

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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

  8120

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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

  4086

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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

  12004

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  Monitoring the effects of therapeutic interventions in depression through self-assessments

  Ines Moragrega, René Bridler, Christine Mohr, Michela Possenti, Deborah Rochat, Judit Sanchez Parramon, Hans H. Stassen

  2021-12-20

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2021.548

  2284

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  Exploring the impacts of COVID-19 related social distancing on loneliness, psychological needs and symptomatology

  Bruno Faustino, António Branco Vasco, João Delgado, António Farinha-Fernandes, José Carlos Guerreiro

  2021-01-14

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2020.492

  4043

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  Characteristics of effective online interventions: implications for adolescents with personality disorder during a global pandemic

  Samantha Reis, Emily L. Matthews, Brin F.S. Grenyer

  2021-01-20

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2020.488

  23392

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  Continuity and discontinuity between psychopathology of childhood and adulthood: a review on retrospective and prospective studies

  Immacolata Zarrella, Luigi Alessandro Russolillo, Giorgio Caviglia, Raffaella Perrella

  2017-07-06

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.248

  3274

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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

  4275

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  Attachment orientations and emotion regulation: new insights from the study of interpersonal emotion regulation strategies

  Irene Messina, Vincenzo Calvo, Alessandro Grecucci

  2023-12-31

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2023.703

  6072

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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

  1324

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• District Functional Unit for Adolescents 2022: a pilot project in Italy to detect mental health strengths and difficulties among youth

  Renan Göksal, Silvia Salcuni, Giulia Marino, Matteo Paduanello, Guido De Renoche

  2025-02-13

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2025.831

  2969

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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

  748

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• Trauma focused-cognitive behavioral therapy training effectiveness in promoting professional development of psychotherapists working with unaccompanied minors in Greece: a non-blinded randomized control trial

  Vasiliki Yotsidi, Theodora Anastasiou, Konstantinos Doulgeris, Panagiota Theodosiou, Clive Richardson

  2024-08-27

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.796

  1919

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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

  368

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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

  1509

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  Psychological outcomes after hospitalization for COVID-19: data from a multidisciplinary follow-up screening program for recovered patients

  Federica Bonazza, Lidia Borghi, Eugenia Cao di San Marco, Kyrie Piscopo, Francesca Bai, Antonella d’Arminio Monforte, Elena Vegni

  2021-01-14

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2020.491

  5856

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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

  2158

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  The psychological impact of COVID-19 on people suffering from dysfunctional eating behaviours: a linguistic analysis of the contents shared in an online community during the lockdown

  Gaia Albano, Rubinia Celeste Bonfanti, Salvatore Gullo, Laura Salerno, Gianluca Lo Coco

  2021-12-20

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2021.557

  2698

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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

  9757

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  Supplementary Material: 286

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• The role of oxytocin as an indicator of outcome and therapeutic alliance

  Chiara Durante, Giulia Di Vincenzo, Alessandra Minutoli, Giampaolo Nicolais, Valeria Carola

  2025-06-24

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2025.842

  1179

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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

  2921

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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

  2527

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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

  4194

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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

  2514

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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

  3181

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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

  2760

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  Sandor Ferenczi’s concept of the dialogue of unconsciouses: a clinical example

  Zelda G. Knight

  2023-05-02

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2023.655

  2018

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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

  3355

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  Assessing therapist and clinician competency in parent-infant psychotherapy: The REARING coding system (RCS) for the group attachment based intervention (GABI)

  Kelsey Armusewicz, Miriam Steele, Howard Steele, Anne Murphy

  2022-03-01

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.562

  3331

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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

  4285

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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

  3445

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  Supplementary Material: 186

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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

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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

  6308

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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

  899

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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

  2938

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  The clinical consequence of positive mental health in psychotherapy

  Mario Fulcheri, Danilo Carrozzino

  2017-07-13

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.280

  2098

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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

  2672

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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

  3293

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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

  2649

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• Models of practice and training in psychotherapy: cross-national perspectives from Italy and Canada

  Victoria Klimkowski, Sofia McRae, Alexia Blick, Laurence Beaulieu, J. Reese S. Handley, Anara A. Hopley, Caroline A. Hyde, Devika M. Jain, Sylvia Kolodziejczyk, Josiane Laliberté, Alexa Lévesque, Lara M. Masri, Anya M. Monet, Reagan S. Nediu, Rachel Valihrach, Giorgio Tasca

  2024-03-14

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.732

  2301

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  Supplementary Material: 268

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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

  2868

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

  Irene Messina, Giovanna Trimoldi

  2024-08-27

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

  2621

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  Dreaming during the COVID-19 lockdown: a comparison of Italian adolescents and adults

  Massimiliano Sommantico, Ilaria Iorio, Marina Lacatena, Santa Parrello

  2021-08-12

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2021.536

  5367

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  Contextualizing motherhood in persons with borderline personality vulnerabilities: cultural adaptation of the Parent Development Interview-Revised in an Indian context

  Kanika Mehrotra, Poornima Bhola, Geetha Desai

  2023-02-03

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2023.675

  2433

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