Publications

Christian C, Bincoletto AF, Mariani R, Negri A, Lingiardi V, Tanzilli A. (2025) Specificities of Mental Functioning and Referential Process in Body Dysmorphic Disorder: A Single Case Study Using the Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM-2). Journal of Psycholinguist Research, Jun 24;54(4):46. https://doi: 10.1007/s10936-025-10162-4. PMID: 40553242.​

 

Negri A, Mariani R, Tanzilli A, Fiorini B A., Lingiardi V, and Christian C. (2024). A Single Case Multimethod Assessment to Detect Significant Changes in the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Psychosomatic Disorders. Journal of Personality Assessment, 26:1-12.
https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2024.2312978
 

​Negri, A. and Christian, C. (2022). Changes in Clinical Process as a Result of Online Therapy: Findings from a Single Case Study. Psychodynamic Psychiatry, 50 (4), 659–671. https://doi.org/10.1521/pdps.2022.50.4.659
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Negri, A., De Bei, F.,  Christian, C. & Rocco, D. (2022). Relationship between countertransference and emotional communication in the counselling process. Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology. https://doi.org/10. 1. 10.13129/2282-1619/mjcp-3442. 

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Mariani, R., Musetti, A., Di Monte, C., Danskin, K., Franceschini, C., & Christian, C. (2022). Maladaptive Daydreaming in Relation to Linguistic Features and Attachment Style. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(1), 386. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19010386

 

Mariani, R., Monaco, S., Christian , C., and Di Trani, M. (2021). Dreaming in quarantine: linguistic analysis of referential process of dreams during COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. Research in Psychotherapy: Psychopathology, Process and Outcome, 24(2).
https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2021.537​

 

Christian, C., Barzilai, E., Nyman, J., and Negri, A. (2021). Assessing key linguistic dimensions of ruptures in the therapeutic alliance. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 50, 143–153. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10936-021-09768-1​

 

Negri. A.,  Andreoli, G., Barazetti, A., Zamin, C., and Christian, C. (2020). Linguistic Markers of the Emotion Elaboration Surrounding the Confinement Period in the Italian Epicenter of COVID-19 Outbreak, Front. Psychol., 18 September 2020 https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.568281.

 

​Dent, L. and Christian, C. (2019). The Shifting Prevalence of Conflict in Psychoanalytic Literature: A Brief Report of a Corpus-Based Text Analysis. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 36(2), 184–188. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pap0000220

 

Negri, A., Christian, C., Mariani, R., Belotti, L., and Andreoli, G., and  Danskin, K.. (2019). Some Important Linguistic Features of the Therapeutic Alliance in the First Session. Research in Psychotherapy: Psychopathology, Process and Outcome, Vol., 22.,
https://doi.org/10.4081/ripppo.2019.374 ​

 

Christian, C. (2015). Conflict Theory and Intersubjectivity. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 32, 608-625. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pap0000011

 

Christian, C. (2015). Punti di convergenza tra teoria del conflitto e intersoggettività nella psicoanalisi contemporanea. PSICOTERAPIA E SCIENZE UMANE. 201-220. https://doi.org/10.3280/PU2015-002003. 

 

Harris, A., Lichtenstein, D., and Christian, C. (2015). To Whom Does the Subject Speak? Between the Relational and Lacanian Schools of Psychoanalysis: A Conversation with Adrienne Harris and David Lichtenstein, Moderated by Chris Christian.  Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 229-246. https://doi.org/10.1080/15240657.2015.1107445

 

Christian, C., Hoffman, L., Bucci, W., Crimins, M., & Worth, M. (2010). Symbolization and emotional engagement in mothers' reports of child care activities. International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, 7(1), 22–39. https://doi.org/10.1002/aps.234

Christian, C. (2009). The Piano Teacher : A Case Study in Perversion and Sadomasochism. Psychoanalytic review. 96. 769-84. https://doi.org/10.1521/prev.2009.96.5.769. 

Christian C. (2007). Sibling loss, guilt and reparation: a case study. The International journal of psycho-analysis, 88(Pt 1), 41–54. https://doi.org/10.1516/ajej-k6ge-auav-eeyc
 

Christian, C. & Jurist, E. (2001). The Relevance of Psychoanalytic Ideas to Crisis Work. Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless. 10. 293-304. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011671307853. 

 

Friedman RC, Bucci W, Christian C, Drucker P, Garrison III WB. (1988). Private psychotherapy patients of psychiatrist–psychoanalysts. Am J Psychiatry, 155(12):1772–4. https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.155.12.1772