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Research in Psychotherapy: Psychopathology, Process and Outcome (RIPPPO) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed journal published by the Italian Area Group of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR Italy Area Group). Its aim is to promote a fruitful communication between the Italian and International communities, enriching clinicians and researchers mutual collaboration. It welcomes high quality articles from any part of the world, concerning a variety of topics (e.g., psychotherapy process and outcome, diagnosis and assessment, psychopathology, etc.), with different formats (e.g., reviews, empirical studies, methodological works, clinical studies) and from different epistemological, theoretical and methodological perspectives of the contemporary research in psychotherapy.

  • 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
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2025.810
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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
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.785
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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
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.826
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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
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.833
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  • The problem of suicidality, personality disorder, and treatment: an alternative psycho-social perspective

    Marco Chiesa
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.779
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  • 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
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.794
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  • Facilitative interpersonal skills in benign versus challenging therapy situations in trainee therapists: a pilot study

    Kim de Jong, Johanna Wilkens, Timothy Anderson, Kane Steggles
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.804
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  • Psychological interventions in the Italian national health system: appropriateness and accountability

    Alessandro Ridolfi
    https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2024.820
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