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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

  1290

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  SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 64

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  Facets of the psychotherapy relationship: a metaphorical approach

  Tomáš Řiháček, Jan Roubal, Katarína Motalová

  2021-01-14

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2020.468

  2149

  PDF: 800

  HTML: 35
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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

  PDF: 1772

  HTML: 1122
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  Till the ocean do us part: Italian and American therapists representations of stepfamilies in treatment

  Monica Accordini, Scott Browning, Marialuisa Gennari, Kevin McCarthy, Davide Margola

  2017-10-27

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.271

  1393

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  HTML: 402

• Research in psychoanalysis across theory and practice: a systematic literature review

  Cristina Marogna, Ciro De Vincenzo, Klodjana Lleshi, Elisa Paluan, Andrea Viecelli Giannotti

  2025-07-03

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2025.861

  4358

  PDF: 1633

  HTML: 54
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  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

  HTML: 93

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

  Irene Messina, Giovanna Trimoldi

  2024-08-27

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

  2704

  PDF: 768

  HTML: 48

• Something has sort of opened up for me: psychology students’ reflections after participating in an apprenticeship training model

  Nina Jakhelln Laugen, Torun Grøtte, Truls Ryum, Patrick A. Vogel, Heidi Brattland, Katrine Høyer Holgersen

  2024-08-27

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.794

  2966

  PDF: 580

  HTML: 181
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  From turn-by-turn to larger chunks of talk: An exploratory study in psychotherapeutic micro-processes using conversation analysis

  Michael B. Buchholz, Horst Kächele

  2017-10-27

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.257

  2397

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  HTML: 448
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  Patient personality characteristics and therapeutic integration: treating borderline personality and emotionally dysregulated-dysphoric personality features

  Saryn R. Levy, Mark J. Hilsenroth, Francine Conway, Jesse Owen

  2022-06-30

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.611

  2990

  PDF: 1188

  HTML: 163
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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

  4467

  PDF: 1742

  HTML: 1144
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  Adolescents’ experiences of psychotherapy following child sexual abuse

  Rosaleen McElvaney, Andrina Monaghan, Christina Treacy, Naoise Delaney

  2023-07-04

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2023.630

  2644

  PDF: 1096

  HTML: 105

• Clinician Emotional Response Toward Narcissistic Patients: A Preliminary Report

  Annalisa Tanzilli, Antonello Colli, Laura Muzi, Vittorio Lingiardi

  2015-03-11

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2015.174

  4454

  PDF: 2438

• It takes two to tango: a qualitative meta-synthesis on processes of psychotherapy dropout from the Single Case Archive

  Liza Notaerts, Melissa De Smet, Martin Finn, Kimberly Van Nieuwenhove, Vicky Hennissen, Reitske Meganck

  2025-12-03

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2025.876

  973

  PDF: 622

  HTML: 80

• 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

  2345

  PDF: 853

  Supplementary Material: 275

  HTML: 59

• How secure is the secure base? Romantic attachment, emotion regulation, and psychotherapists’ role as secure base figures

  Helena Carvalho, Gil Nata, Paula Mena Matos

  2024-04-22

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.733

  2549

  PDF: 1134

  HTML: 37
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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

  HTML: 2032

• Development and preliminary validation of the Clinician Affective REsponse (CARE) scale

  Alberto Stefana, Paolo Fusar-Poli, Joshua Langfus, Eduard Vieta, Eric Youngstrom

  2024-03-21

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.736

  2096

  PDF: 972

  APPENDIX: 256

  SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS: 237

  HTML: 47

• 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

  1169

  PDF: 398

  HTML: 169
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  What is therapeutic? Analysis of the narratives available on the websites of Italian addiction rehab centres to present the therapeutic programme

  Elena Faccio, Ludovica Aquili, Michele Rocelli

  2022-09-01

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.613

  3775

  PDF: 921

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  The real relationship: the Portuguese version of the Real Relationship Inventory-Client form

  Pedro Rodrigues Ribeiro, David Dias Neto

  2023-07-05

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2023.678

  2378

  PDF: 1002

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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

  2831

  PDF: 910

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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

  PDF: 3293

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  A psychodynamic contribution to the understanding of anger - The importance of diagnosis before treatment

  Paola Manfredi, Claudia Taglietti

  2022-06-30

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.587

  5694

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  Psychotherapeutic change in children and adolescents who have been sexually abused: a model from participants’ perspectives

  Claudia Capella, Loreto Rodríguez, Estrella Azócar, Ximena Lama, Lucía Núñez, Daniela Águila, Camila Gomez, Macarena Espeleta, Vania Vasquez

  2022-03-04

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.583

  4269

  PDF: 989

  HTML: 44

• 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

  HTML: 174
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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

• 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

  4258

  PDF: 1774

  SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 808

  HTML: 42
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  When and for whom do psychodynamic therapists use guided imagery? Explicating practitioners’ tacit knowledge

  Jule Bauckhage, Christian Sell

  2021-12-20

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2021.577

  3230

  PDF: 1070

  HTML: 61

• 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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  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

  PDF: 1194

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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

  928

  PDF: 398

  SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 183

  HTML: 100
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  Therapeutic interventions in intimate partner violence: an overview

  Valeria Condino, Annalisa Tanzilli, Anna Maria Speranza, Vittorio Lingiardi

  2016-11-07

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2016.241

  23134

  PDF: 6754

  HTML: 58704
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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

  HTML: 46
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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

  HTML: 255
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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

  2137

  PDF: 870

  HTML: 178

• 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

  1221

  PDF: 785

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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

  8306

  PDF: 3204

  HTML: 908

• 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

  2150

  PDF: 853

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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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  How do personal and professional characteristics influence the development of psychotherapists in training: Results from a longitudinal study

  Oliver Evers, Paul Schröder-Pfeifer, Heidi Möller, Svenja Taubner

  2019-12-19

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2019.424

  2527

  PDF: 1566

  HTML: 89
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  Changes in the anaclitic-introjective personality configurations following psychoanalytic psychotherapy with young adults

  Andrzej Werbart, Siri Aldèn, Anders Diedrichs

  2017-04-13

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.239

  2466

  PDF: 1033

  APPENDIX: 378

  HTML: 2108
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  Psychotherapists’ experiences of telepsychotherapy during the COVID-19 pandemic in Argentina: impact on therapy setting, therapeutic relationship and burden

  Vera Luisa König, María Isabel Fontao, Leandro Martín Casari, Alejandra Ruth Taborda

  2023-02-03

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2023.632

  2484

  PDF: 767

  Appendices: 296

  HTML: 56

• 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

  1571

  PDF: 855

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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

  4323

  PDF: 1516

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  The relevance of social dreaming for action research: exploring jail workers’ unconscious thinking of the changes in the prison organization

  Lidia Borghi, Claudio Cassardo, Elisa Mingarelli, Elena Vegni

  2021-08-12

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2021.542

  6872

  PDF: 937

  HTML: 100

  Appendix: 326
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  Personal style of the therapist and personality dimensions in a sample of Argentinian therapists

  Leandro Martín Casari, Mirta Susana Ison, Beatriz Margarita María Gómez

  2019-07-30

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2019.362

  2878

  PDF: 1511

  HTML: 66
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  Working on dreams, from neuroscience to psychotherapy

  Giorgio Caviglia

  2021-08-12

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2021.540

  7142

  PDF: 1771

  HTML: 132

• 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

  2991

  PDF: 530

  HTML: 15
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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

  6380

  PDF: 2474

  HTML: 245

• 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

  5341

  PDF: 1916

  HTML: 62
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  Psychotherapy with two late adulthood children of the colonies

  Zelda Gillian Knight

  2017-10-27

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.287

  1591

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  HTML: 235

• 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

  1589

  PDF: 642

  SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 68

  SUPPLEMENTARY R MARKDOWN: 36

  HTML: 191
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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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  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

  HTML: 34
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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

  3559

  PDF: 893

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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

  5408

  PDF: 679

  HTML: 85
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  Balancing clinical risk with countertransference management protects alliance

  Joào F. Barreto, Paula Mena Matos

  2017-10-27

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.279

  2360

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  More than one way home - Student raters' impressions of interventions and group processes in mentalisation based group psychotherapy and group analytic psychotherapy

  Johannes Pries, Alexander Niecke, Annekatrin Vetter, Ulrich Schultz-Venrath

  2022-12-29

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.642

  4936

  PDF: 569

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  Validation and psychometric properties of the Italian version of the Power Behavioural System Scale

  Sara Salzano, Isa Zappullo, Vincenzo Paolo Senese, Massimiliano Conson, Carmela Finelli, Mario Mikulincer, Phillip R. Shaver

  2023-02-03

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2023.617

  2431

  PDF: 793

  Appendix: 232

  HTML: 51
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  Attachment insecurity predicts outcomes in an ACT-CBT group therapy for adults in a physical rehabilitation centre

  Danijela Maras, Louise Balfour, Monique Lefebvre, Giorgio A. Tasca

  2022-09-01

  https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.634

  4672

  PDF: 930

  Appendix: 231

  HTML: 41

• 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

  470

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