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  • Lingiardi, V., McVilliams, N. (2021). Sensible diagnoses for sensible clinicians: the new edition of the psychodynamic diagnostic manual (PDM-2). Main issues of pedagogy and psychology, 20(2), 47-55.
  • Muzi, L., Tieghi, L., Rugo, M., Lingiardi, V. (2021). Eating pathology and Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM-2) diagnostic assessment: Implications for treatment outcomes in a psychodynamic-oriented residential setting. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 38(4), 300-310.
  • Tanzilli, A., Giovanardi, G., Patriarca, E., Lingiardi, V., Williams, R. (2021). From a Symptom-Based to a Person-Centered Approach in Treating Depressive Disorders in Adolescence: A Clinical Case Formulation Using the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM-2)’s International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(19), 10127.
  • Tanzilli, A., Di Giuseppe, M., Giovanardi, G., Boldrini, T., Caviglia, G., Conversano, C., Lingiardi, V. (2021). Mentalization, attachment, and defense mechanisms: a Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual-2-oriented empirical investigation. Research in Psychotherapy: Psychopathology, Process, and Outcome, 24(1).
  • Fortunato, A., Giovanardi, G., D'Angelo, V. (2020). A short history of a controversial diagnosis. Ricerca Psicoanalitica, 31(2).
  • Lingiardi, V., Mcwilliams, N. (2020). Introduction to the Special Issue on the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual, (Pdm-2): The Pdm: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. Main Issues Of Pedagogy And Psychology, 18(2), 23-32.
  • Lingiardi, V., Di Cicilia, G. (2019). Fare diagnosi in adolescenza. Il contributo psicodinamico del PDM-2 e della SWAP-200-A. Psicologia clinica dello sviluppo, 23(3), 341-360.
  • Lingiardi, V. (2018). Diagnosi: senso e sensibilità. Nota introduttiva alla Lectio Magistralis di Nancy McWilliams sul Manuale Diagnostico Psicodinamico (PDM-2). Psicoterapia e Scienze Umane.
  • Lingiardi, V., Muzi, L. (2018). Il Manuale Diagnostico Psicodinamico (PDM-2): un’occasione di dialogo interdisciplinare. Giornale italiano di psicologia, 45(4), 781-804.
  • Del Corno, F. (2018). Il PDM-2: le indicazioni metodologiche di un Manuale diagnostico. Giornale italiano di psicologia, 45(4), 837-842.
  • Del Corno, F., Kiosses, D. N. (2018). The PDM-2 perspective on later life. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 35(3), 346.
  • Lingiardi, V., Colli, A., Muzi, L. (2018). A clinically useful assessment of patients’ (and therapists’) mental functioning: M-axis implications for the therapeutic alliance. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 35(3), 306.
  • Lingiardi, V., McWilliams, N. (2018). Introduction to the special issue on the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual, (PDM-2): The PDM: Yesterday, today, tomorrow. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 35(3), 289.
  • McWilliams, N., Grenyer, B. F., Shedler, J. (2018). Personality in PDM-2: Controversial issues. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 35(3), 299
  • Lingiardi, V., McWilliams, N., Muzi, L. (2017). The contribution of Sidney Blatt’s two-polarities model to the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual. Research In Psychotherapy: Psychopathology, Process And Outcome, 20(1), 12-18.
  • Gordon, R. M., Gazzillo, F., Blake, A., Bornstein, R. F., Etzi, J., Lingiardi, V., … Tasso, A. F. (2016). The Relationship between Theoretical Orientation and Countertransference Expectations: Implications for Ethical Dilemmas and Risk Management. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 23(3), 236-245.
  • Gazzillo, F., Lingiardi, V., Del Corno, F., Genova, F., Bornstein, R. F., Gordon, R. M., McWilliams, N. (2015). Clinicians’ emotional responses and Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual adult personality disorders: A clinically relevant empirical investigation. Psychotherapy, 52(2), 238-246.
  • Huprich, S. K., McWilliams, N., Lingiardi, V., Bornstein, R. F., Gazzillo, F., Gordon, R. M. (2015). The Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM) and the PDM-2: Opportunities to significantly affect the profession. Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 35, 60-73.
  • Lingiardi, V., McWilliams, N. (2015). The psychodynamic diagnostic manual – 2nd edition (PDM-2). World Psychiatry, 14(2), 237-239.
  • Lingiardi, V., McWilliams, N., Bornstein, R. F., Gazzillo, F., Gordon, R. M. (2015). The Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual Version 2 (PDM-2): Assessing patients for improved clinical practice and research. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 32(1), 94-115.
  • McWilliams, N., Lingiardi, V. (2015). Reply to a commentary on ‘The Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual Version 2 (PDM-2): Assessing patients for improved clinical practice and research’. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 32(1),121-122.
  • Del Corno, F., Lingiardi, V. (2011). The Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM) in the U.S.A. and in Europe: Between commercial success and influence on professionals and researchers. Bulletin of Applied Psychology, 265 (58), 5-10.
  • Gazzillo, F., Lingiardi, V., Del Corno, F. (2011). Towards the validation of three assessment instruments derived from the PDM P Axis: the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Prototypes, the Core Preoccupations Questionnaire and the Pathogenic Beliefs Questionnaire. Bulletin of Applied Psychology, 265(58), 31-45.
  • Mundo, E. (2011). The subjective experience of psychopathological symptoms: Clinical issues and research implications of the PDM S Axis. Bulletin of Applied Psychology, 265(58), 46-52.
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