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Vittorio Lingiardi

Vittorio Lingiardi

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Social Sciences and Humanities

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46
Citations
6782
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3693
National Ranking
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Overview

Vittorio Lingiardi is affiliated with Sapienza University of Rome in Italy. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and medicine, with a focus on clinical psychology, social psychology, psychiatry and mental health, experimental and cognitive psychology, and reproductive medicine.

The main topics covered in their work include personality disorders and psychopathology, LGBTQ health, identity, and policy, psychotherapy techniques and applications, reproductive health and technologies, family dynamics and relationships, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, and attachment and relationship dynamics.

The scientist has published extensively in several academic journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Research in Psychotherapy Psychopathology Process and Outcome
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Sexuality Research and Social Policy
  • The Journal of Sexual Medicine

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Vittorio Lingiardi are:

  • Psychotherapy During COVID-19: How the Clinical Practice of Italian Psychotherapists Changed During the Pandemic, 2020, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on admissions to general hospital psychiatric wards in Italy: Reduced psychiatric hospitalizations and increased suicidality, 2021, Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry
  • Unpacking trust: The Italian validation of the Epistemic Trust, Mistrust, and Credulity Questionnaire (ETMCQ), 2023, PLoS ONE
  • Mentalization, attachment, and defense mechanisms: a Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual-2-oriented empirical investigation, 2021, Research in Psychotherapy Psychopathology Process and Outcome
  • Disorganized Attachment pattern affects the perception of Affective Touch, 2020, Scientific Reports

Vittorio Lingiardi collaborates frequently with various researchers. The most recurrent co-authors include:

  • Annalisa Tanzilli
  • Guido Giovanardi
  • Anna Maria Speranza
  • Nicola Carone
  • Marta Mirabella

They have also contributed to book publications, such as the 2024 volume titled Mental Health Research and Practice published by Cambridge University Press.

Best Publications

  • Patient personality and therapist response: an empirical investigation.

    Antonello Colli;Annalisa Tanzilli;Giancarlo Dimaggio;Vittorio Lingiardi

  • Measure of Internalized Sexual Stigma for Lesbians and Gay Men: A New Scale

    Vittorio Lingiardi;Roberto Baiocco;Nicola Nardelli

  • The collaborative interactions scale: A new transcript-based method for the assessment of therapeutic alliance ruptures and resolutions in psychotherapy

    Antonello Colli;Vittorio Lingiardi

  • Homonegativity in Italy: Cultural Issues, Personality Characteristics, and Demographic Correlates with Negative Attitudes Toward Lesbians and Gay Men

    Vittorio Lingiardi;Nicola Nardelli;Salvatore Ioverno;Simona Falanga

  • The Evaluation of Homophobia in an Italian Sample

    Vittorio Lingiardi;Simona Falanga;Anthony Raymond D'Augelli

  • Therapeutic alliance evaluation in personality disorders psychotherapy

    Vittorio Lingiardi;Ludovica Filippucci;Roberto Baiocco

  • The Roles of Politics, Feminism, and Religion in Attitudes Toward LGBT Individuals: A Cross-Cultural Study of College Students in the USA, Italy, and Spain

    Meredith G. F. Worthen;Vittorio Lingiardi;Chiara Caristo

  • Attitudes of Italian Heterosexual Older Adults Towards Lesbian and Gay Parenting

    Roberto Baiocco;Nicola Nardelli;Lina Pezzuti;Vittorio Lingiardi

  • The psychodynamic diagnostic manual - 2nd edition (PDM-2).

    Vittorio Lingiardi;Nancy McWilliams

  • Lesbian Mother Families and Gay Father Families in Italy: Family Functioning, Dyadic Satisfaction, and Child Well-Being

    Roberto Baiocco;Federica Santamaria;Salvatore Ioverno;Lilybeth Fontanesi

  • Who has the worst attitudes toward sexual minorities? Comparison of transphobia and homophobia levels in gender dysphoric individuals, the general population and health care providers

    A D Fisher;G Castellini;J Ristori;H Casale

  • Do therapists' subjective variables impact on psychodynamic psychotherapy outcomes? A systematic literature review

    Vittorio Lingiardi;Laura Muzi;Annalisa Tanzilli;Nicola Carone

  • Mapping Twitter hate speech towards social and sexual minorities: a lexicon-based approach to semantic content analysis

    Vittorio Lingiardi;Nicola Carone;Giovanni Semeraro;Cataldo Musto

  • Italian gay fathers' experiences of transnational surrogacy and their relationship with the surrogate pre- and post-birth.

    Nicola Carone;Roberto Baiocco;Vittorio Lingiardi

  • Single fathers by choice using surrogacy: why men decide to have a child as a single parent.

    Nicola Carone;Roberto Baiocco;Vittorio Lingiardi

  • Defense mechanisms and personality disorders.

    Vittorio Lingiardi;Clizia Lonati;Francesca Delucchi;Andrea Fossati

  • Consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on admissions to general hospital psychiatric wards in Italy: Reduced psychiatric hospitalizations and increased suicidality.

    Tommaso Boldrini;Paolo Girardi;Massimo Clerici;Andreas Conca

  • Assessing personality change in psychotherapy with the SWAP-200: a case study.

    Vittorio Lingiardi;Jonathan Shedler;Francesco Gazzillo

  • Suicidal ideation in Spanish and Italian lesbian and gay young adults: The role of internalized sexual stigma

    Roberto Baiocco;Salvatore Ioverno;Rita Cerutti;Federica Santamaria

  • An international perspective on assessment of negative and positive symptoms in schizophrenia.

    Massimo Moscarelli;Cesare Maffei;Bruno M. Cesana;Paolo Boato

  • Psychotherapy During COVID-19: How the Clinical Practice of Italian Psychotherapists Changed During the Pandemic.

    Tommaso Boldrini;Arianna Schiano Lomoriello;Arianna Schiano Lomoriello;Franco Del Corno;Vittorio Lingiardi

  • Italian gay father families formed by surrogacy: Parenting, stigmatization, and children's psychological adjustment.

    Nicola Carone;Vittorio Lingiardi;Antonio Chirumbolo;Roberto Baiocco

Frequent Co-Authors

Roberto Baiocco
Roberto Baiocco Sapienza University of Rome
Cesare Maffei
Cesare Maffei Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Robert F. Bornstein
Robert F. Bornstein Adelphi University
Andrea Fossati
Andrea Fossati Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
J. Christopher Perry
J. Christopher Perry McGill University
Stefano Vicari
Stefano Vicari Boston Children's Hospital
Antonio Chirumbolo
Antonio Chirumbolo Sapienza University of Rome
Fiorenzo Laghi
Fiorenzo Laghi Sapienza University of Rome
Mark J. Hilsenroth
Mark J. Hilsenroth Adelphi University

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