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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

  1969

  PDF: 248

• 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

  1750

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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

  1890

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  SUPPLEMENTARY: 74

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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

  1677

  PDF: 172

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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

  1649

  PDF: 191

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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

  2172

  PDF: 234

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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

  1616

  PDF: 173

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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

  1939

  PDF: 212

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