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This case\u2013control study was performed with the aim to compare the attachment status and the defensive processing patterns of women victims of\n                      <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">IPV<\/jats:styled-content>\n                      (cases) with women with no experiences of\n                      <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">IPV<\/jats:styled-content>\n                      (controls).\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Cases were 16 women with an age range from 26\u00a0years to 51\u00a0years. The control group included 16 women with an age range from 26\u00a0years to 59\u00a0years. Women's states of mind in regard to attachment were evaluated with the Adult Attachment Projective Picture\u00a0System, which allows classifying attachment status and defensive mechanisms.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Compared with control group, most\n                      <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">IPV<\/jats:styled-content>\n                      women resulted having an unresolved attachment status and describing characters less capable to draw upon internal resources, that is, internalized secure base, and less capable to act than controls. Women victims of\n                      <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">IPV<\/jats:styled-content>\n                      used significantly more words referring danger and failed protection than controls.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      The results evidenced the strong effectiveness of the\n                      <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">AAP<\/jats:styled-content>\n                      on analysing the psychological attitudes of women victims of\n                      <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">IPV<\/jats:styled-content>\n                      . The dramatic events lived by the women victims of\n                      <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">IPV<\/jats:styled-content>\n                      are so dominant in their minds that they invade their stories. This could represent a clue of emotional dysregulation.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Practitioner points<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      <jats:list list-type=\"bullet\">\n                        <jats:list-item>\n                          <jats:p>\n                            The use of\n                            <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">AAP<\/jats:styled-content>\n                            improves the understanding of the agency of self and of the specific levels of trauma experienced by\n                            <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">IPV<\/jats:styled-content>\n                            victims, on clarifying their frightening\/frightened dynamic, typical of the disorganized attachment relationship, which undermines their activity of mentalization.\n                          <\/jats:p>\n                        <\/jats:list-item>\n                        <jats:list-item>\n                          <jats:p>\n                            The therapist will assume the stance of a secure base and then both promoting exploration and contrasting impotence, humiliation, and subordination that\n                            <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">IPV<\/jats:styled-content>\n                            women have experienced.\n                          <\/jats:p>\n                        <\/jats:list-item>\n                        <jats:list-item>\n                          <jats:p>\n                            This therapeutic interpersonal context will be functional to reach two different but related therapeutic goals: (1) to facilitate the rebuilding of agency (through an activation of subject to explore concrete strategies for exiting from\n                            <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">IPV<\/jats:styled-content>\n                            ), (2) to explore attachment\u2010related segregated systems from awareness, and to integrate them in memory.\n                          <\/jats:p>\n                        <\/jats:list-item>\n                      <\/jats:list>\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1111\/papt.12106","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,10,12]],"date-time":"2016-10-12T10:45:01Z","timestamp":1476269101000},"page":"177-192","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":8,"title":["Unresolved attachment and agency in women victims of intimate partner violence: A case\u2013control study"],"prefix":"10.1111","volume":"90","author":[{"given":"Susanna","family":"Pallini","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Education Roma Tre University Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Agnese","family":"Alfani","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Education Roma Tre University Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Lucrezia","family":"Marech","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Education Roma Tre University Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Fiorenzo","family":"Laghi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Developmental and Social Psychology Faculty of Medicine and Psychology Sapienza, University of Rome Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2016,10,4]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_5_2_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1037\/a0015254"},{"key":"e_1_2_5_3_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/1540\u20105834.00035"},{"key":"e_1_2_5_4_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1080\/10615800802638279"},{"key":"e_1_2_5_5_1","volume-title":"The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey (NISVS), 2010 summary report","author":"Black M. 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