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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

  2790

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• Factors of treatment success in psychotherapy: a within-therapist analysis of early session processes

  Yan Zhu, Mark J. Hilsenroth

  2025-07-22

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2025.848

  1565

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• Does technique matter? A multilevel meta-analysis on the association between psychotherapeutic techniques and outcome

  Christin Janine Grevenhaus, Christoph Flückiger, Lea Theimer, Cord Benecke

  2024-08-29

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.803

  5330

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• Repairing alliance ruptures in psychotherapy with adults: a scoping review

  Alberto López-Vásquez, Nicolás González-Araneda, Stephanie Vaccarezza, Catherine F. Eubanks, Paula Errázuriz

  2026-04-30

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2026.892

  886

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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

  433

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• Effectiveness of Jungian psychotherapy in supervised training settings

  Christian Roesler, Elisabeth Schörry-Volk, Anette Müller, Edem Dotse Zikpi, Wolfram Keller, Miray Kayacan

  2025-08-25

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2025.869

  3668

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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

  985

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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

  1237

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• Differentiating self-disclosure interventions from self-involving interventions based on the assessment of the short-term therapeutic effects: preliminary results

  Fabio Monticelli, Chiara Massullo, Antonino Carcione, Lucia Tombolini, Flaminia Guerra, Marianna Liotti, Cecilia Monticelli, Elena Gasperini, Marianna Russo, Samanta Novaretto, Letizia La Vista, Paola Mallozzi, Claudio Imperatori, Chiara Del Brutto, Benedetto Farina

  2025-02-10

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2025.800

  3904

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• A systematic review on the role of therapist characteristics in the treatment of eating disorders

  Gaia Albano, Arianna Teti, Arianna Scrò, Rubinia Celeste Bonfanti, Lucia Fortunato, Gianluca Lo Coco

  2024-07-10

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.750

  3661

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• Change and sustained recovery in defense mechanisms and depression in a pilot study of antidepressant medications plus up to 18 months of psychotherapy for recurrent major depression

  John Christopher Perry, Claire J. Starrs, Trent Semeniuk, Elisabeth Banon, Ruta Westreich

  2025-12-31

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2025.885

  671

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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

  804

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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

  3014

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• Developing relational competence in psychotherapy training: a qualitative study of trainees’ perspectives

  Giovanna Trimoldi, Marco Sambin, Pietro Spataro, Giulia Gagliardini, Irene Messina

  2026-04-22

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2026.890

  719

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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

  1460

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  Psychological treatments are as effective as pharmacotherapies in the treatment of adult depression: a summary from Randomized Clinical Trials and neuroscience evidence

  Pim Cuijpers, Claudio Gentili

  2017-07-13

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.273

  3606

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• Transference-focused psychotherapy in an inpatient setting for borderline personality disorders: changes in symptomatology

  Torvi Abel, Moritz Happel, Franca Daerr, Carsten Spitzer, Cord Benecke, Birger Dulz

  2025-01-28

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2025.810

  5309

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  Tracking change in group interventions: a further adaptation of the innovative moments coding system for groups

  Giovanna Esposito, Anna Sara Cutolo, Raffaella Passeggia, Silvia Formentin, Miguel Mario Gonçalves

  2022-12-29

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.648

  1774

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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

  1212

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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

  676

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  Perfectionism and therapeutic alliance: a review of the clinical research

  Racheli Miller, Mark J. Hilsenroth, Paul L. Hewitt

  2017-04-13

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.264

  3672

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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

  3314

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• Examining the factor structure of the 40-item Defense Style Questionnaire among adults with depression: an individual participant data meta-analysis

  Frederik J. Wienicke, William J. Burk, Erkki Heinonen, Olavi Lindfors, Tommi Härkänen, Paul Knekt, Sampo Sarvasmaa, Luciano Dias de Mattos Souza, Karen Jansen, Ricardo Azevedo da Silva, Érico Nobre dos Santos, Jack J. M. Dekker, Jaap Peen, Henricus L. Van, John Christopher Perry, William M. van der Veld, Ednei Soares, Jan Spijker, Ellen Driessen

  2026-02-16

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2026.887

  1179

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• Sense of meaning as a predictor of long-term therapy outcome in psychiatric inpatients: results of a one-year follow-up Meaning and long-term therapy outcome

  René Hefti, Daren Sunthareswarar, Thomas Wartenweiler, Harold Koenig, Michael Ackert

  2025-09-30

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2025.859

  466

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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

  4248

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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

  919

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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

  2534

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  The influence of pharmaceutical companies

  Paolo Migone

  2017-07-13

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.276

  2797

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