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  • Are we on the same page? Examining client-therapist alliance congruence and psychological well-being

    John Robert Rilveria
    2026-07-31
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2026.896
    513
    PDF: 418
    HTML: 34
  • 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
    1757
    PDF: 985
    HTML: 111
  • 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
    10636
    PDF: 1831
    HTML: 127
  • 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
    3899
    PDF: 909
    HTML: 72
  • The therapeutic relationship and change processes in child psychotherapy: a qualitative, longitudinal study of the views of children, parents and therapists

    Lucia Nuñez, Sofía Fernández, Nicolle Alamo, Nick Midgley, Claudia Capella, Mariane Krause
    2022-03-04
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.556
    8860
    PDF: 3021
    HTML: 139
  • Developing a prototype for relationship therapy psychoanalysis: an empirical study with the Psychotherapy Process Q-set

    Laura Bonalume, Laura Corbelli, Mattia Ferro, Anna Lisa Mazzoleni, Maria Pia Roggero
    2023-03-24
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2023.674
    2626
    PDF: 847
    HTML: 36
  • 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
    3252
    PDF: 1483
    HTML: 66
  • 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
    3259
    PDF: 731
    HTML: 198
  • 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
    4047
    PDF: 1945
    HTML: 1135
  • 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
    9851
    PDF: 3725
    HTML: 1038
  • 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
    3288
    PDF: 1613
    HTML: 176
  • Shaping psychotherapy trainees’ potential: insights from training program directors

    Irene Messina, Giovanna Trimoldi
    2024-08-27
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.799
    3134
    PDF: 930
    HTML: 61
  • 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
    1637
    PDF: 1248
    SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 292
    HTML: 73
  • A thematic analysis of therapists' perspectives on therapeutic alliance rupture moments

    Gonca Soygüt, İsmail Volkan Gülüm
    2016-10-19
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2016.235
    4641
    PDF: 13663
    HTML: 1484
  • 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
    4975
    PDF: 2103
    SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 916
    HTML: 73
  • The forward edge transference within self-psychology and the activation of inborn capacity through interpretation and internalization

    Zelda G. Knight
    2021-12-20
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2021.550
    4232
    PDF: 1035
    HTML: 115
  • The transition to online psychotherapy during the pandemic: a qualitative study on patients’ perspectives

    Cecilia Giordano, Ivan Ambrosiano , Maria Teresa Graffeo, Alessandro Di Caro, Salvatore Gullo
    2022-11-04
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.638
    6178
    PDF: 2049
    HTML: 62
  • Perceived professional development of Chinese psychotherapy trainees: a pilot study

    Ying Zhang, Lili Shi, Jing Wei, Armin Hartmann , Rainer Leonhart, Markus Bassler, Kurt Fritzsche
    2022-08-01
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.580
    3744
    PDF: 1101
    HTML: 166
  • 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
    9489
    PDF: 2262
    Appendix: 259
    HTML: 104
  • 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
    5217
    PDF: 708
    HTML: 29
  • 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
    2544
    PDF: 1663
    HTML: 492
  • Alexithymia and emotional processing: a longitudinal mixed methods research

    Ana Nunes da Silva, Antònio Branco Vasco, Jeanne C. Watson
    2018-04-12
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2018.292
    3411
    PDF: 1760
    HTML: 1203
  • 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
    14456
    PDF: 4670
    Supplementary Material: 400
    HTML: 212
  • 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
    325
    PDF: 206
    HTML: 22
  • 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
    2618
    PDF: 1589
    HTML: 251
  • 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
    3071
    PDF: 1349
    HTML: 57
  • 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
    4654
    PDF: 1176
    HTML: 51
  • 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
    2462
    PDF: 935
    HTML: 54
  • Effectiveness of and processes related to internet-delivered acceptance and commitment therapy for adolescents with anxiety disorders: a randomized controlled trial

    Linnea Nissling, Sandra Weineland, Kristofer Vernmark, Ella Radvogin, Anna-Karin Engström, Sara Schmidt, Eva Nieto Granberg, Elin Larsson, Timo Hursti
    2023-07-04
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2023.681
    5015
    PDF: 2090
    HTML: 144
  • The feasibility, acceptability and effectiveness of a feedback-informed group treatment (FIGT) tool for patients with anxiety or depressive disorders

    Marjolein M. W. Koementas-de Vos, Lucas C. Colleye, Bea Tiemens, Fabiana Engelsbel, Kim de Jong, Cilia L. M. Witteman, M. Annet Nugter
    2022-09-19
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.647
    3983
    PDF: 927
    HTML: 27
  • An exploratory study on how attachment classifications manifest in group psychotherapy

    Alessandro Talia, Anna Georg, Björn Siepe, Salvatore Gullo, Madeleine Miller-Bottome, Jana Volkert, Corinne Neukel, Michael Kaess, Felix Bempohl, Sabine C. Herpertz, Svenja Taubner
    2022-11-04
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.653
    3846
    PDF: 1060
    HTML: 38
  • 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
    1830
    PDF: 665
    HTML: 184
  • 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
    4702
    PDF: 1351
    HTML: 115
  • 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
    3771
    PDF: 1173
    HTML: 61
  • 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
    4027
    PDF: 1356
    HTML: 204
  • Process and outcome in university counseling: the role of epistemic trust and working alliance

    Costanza Franchini, Alexandro Fortunato, Alice Fiorini Bincoletto, Gaetano Maria Sciabica, Mara Morelli, Antonio Chirumbolo, Silvia Andreassi, Anna Maria Speranza
    2026-08-31
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2026.899
    274
    PDF: 207
    HTML: 7
  • DreamSenseMemory - a Gestalt-based dream-work approach embracing all our senses

    Brigitte Holzinger, Franziska Nierwetberg; Larissa Cosentino; Lucille Mayer
    2021-08-24
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2021.529
    10608
    PDF: 2321
    HTML: 187
  • Group climate, cohesion and curative climate. A study on the common factors in group process and their relation with members attachment dimensions

    Salvatore Gullo, Gianluca Lo Coco, Carla Di Fratello, Francesca Giannone, Giuseppe Mannino, Gary Burlingame
    2015-03-11
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2015.160
    6458
    PDF: 4861
  • 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
    2731
    PDF: 1166
    APPENDIX: 457
    HTML: 2135
  • 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
    15010
    PDF: 3862
    HTML: 118
  • Storied images of psychotherapeutic change: approaching children's voices through drawings

    Claudia Capella, Loreto Rodrìguez, Daniela Aguila, Denise Dussert, Ximena Lama, Carolina Gutierrez, Gretchen Beiza
    2015-12-23
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2015.188
    2700
    PDF: 1936
  • 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
    2580
    PDF: 881
    HTML: 109
  • 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
    5076
    PDF: 1166
    Appendix: 268
    HTML: 57
  • Navigating the complexity of the therapeutic and clinical use of photography in psychosocial settings: a review of the literature

    Emanuela Saita, Martina Tramontano
    2018-04-12
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2018.293
    5517
    PDF: 2678
    HTML: 1628
  • ‘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
    4020
    PDF: 1068
    HTML: 76
  • 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
    2286
    PDF: 598
    HTML: 91
  • 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
    3244
    PDF: 1088
    HTML: 80
  • Psychotherapy with two late adulthood children of the colonies

    Zelda Gillian Knight
    2017-10-27
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.287
    1781
    PDF: 932
    HTML: 247
  • The clinical consequence of positive mental health in psychotherapy

    Mario Fulcheri, Danilo Carrozzino
    2017-07-13
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2017.280
    2316
    PDF: 1014
    HTML: 185
  • 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
    1838
    PDF: 1033
    HTML: 33
  • The efficacy of transdiagnostic cognitive behavioural therapy on reducing negative affect, anxiety sensitivity and improving perceived control in children with emotional disorders - a randomized controlled trial

    Elham Qanbari Alaee, Omid Saed, Sahel Khakpoor, Reza Ahmadi, Mahsa Ali Mohammadi, Majid Yoosefi Afrashteh, Zekrolah Morovati
    2022-05-09
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2022.588
    4199
    PDF: 1487
    HTML: 127
  • My story in response to the stories of my patients’ experience of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic: a relational psychoanalytic approach

    Zelda Gillian Knight
    2021-01-14
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2020.490
    1978
    PDF: 837
    HTML: 35
  • Living under lockdown in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa: anxious voices from the unplanned shift to online therapy

    Zelda Gillian Knight
    2021-01-14
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2020.487
    3735
    PDF: 913
    HTML: 31
  • 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
    2738
    PDF: 817
    SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 249
    HTML: 122
  • Online Supportive Group as social intervention to face COVID lockdown. A qualitative study on psychotherapists, psychology trainees and students, and community people

    Emanuela Brusadelli, Laura Ferrari, Michele Benetti, Stefania Bruzzese, Giada Maria Tonelli, Salvatore Gullo
    2021-01-20
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2020.501
    2893
    PDF: 1292
    HTML: 45
  • 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
    5701
    PDF: 1488
    HTML: 42
  • 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
    8248
    PDF: 3197
    HTML: 329
  • 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
    2797
    PDF: 1458
    HTML: 222
  • 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
    2758
    PDF: 1095
    Supplementary Material: 346
    HTML: 74
  • 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
    1564
    PDF: 625
    SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: 250
    HTML: 136
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