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Yonatan-Leus, Refael, Friedlander, Avraham, Sinai, Dana, Weiser, Mark, Lichtenberg, Pesach, Caspi, Asaf, Domany, Yoav, Bitan, Dana Tzur, Effectiveness of Two Hospitalization Alternatives Compared to Psychiatric Admission: An Ecological Longitudinal Study, Mental Illness, 2025, 3361455, 10 pages, 2025.

Yonatan-Leus, Refael & Shefler, G. (2025). The complexities of research ethics when therapists become research subjects: power, privacy, and professional boundaries in psychotherapy research. Psychotherapy Research, 1–8

Yonatan-Leus, R., Shulman, S. Stability of breakup distress following romantic dissolutions during emerging adulthood: individual and mean level. Curr Psychol 44, 14110–14119 (2025).

Yonatan-Leus, R., Karako-Eyal, N. Reconceptualizing Side Effects in Psychotherapy: from Medical Effects to Interactive Therapeutic Proposals. J Contemp Psychother (2025).

Yonatan-Leus, R., Abargil, M., Finkenberg, R. et al. Do psychiatric hospitalization and symptoms change together in treatment, and do they predict each other?. Curr Psychol (2025).

Yonatan-Leus R, Abargil M, Shulman S, Cooper-Kazaz R. Patterns of Change in Healthcare Use and Cost Before and During Psychotherapy. Int J Psychol. 2025 Apr;60(2):e70020

Shulman, Shmuel, Yonatan-Leus, Refael, Strauss, Asher & Gabay, T. (2025). Breakup Distress Trajectories Across Emerging Adulthood and the Quality of Romantic Relationships: A Mixed-Method Study. Emerging Adulthood

Lipner, L. M., Katz, M., Tzor, K., Amar, A., & Yonatan-Leus, Refael. (2025). The why, the how, and the what next: A qualitative investigation of premature termination from psychotherapy. Psychotherapy Research, 1–15

Shulman, S., Rosenberg, M., Yonatan-Leus, R., & Sehayek, S. (2024). Developmental pathways and adjustment of adult women who experienced early pubertal development: A mixed-method approach. The Journal of Early Adolescence.

Yonatan-Leus, Refael and Karako-Eyal, Nilli. (2024). Patient voices: lived experiences of informed consent in long-term antipsychotic medication treatment. Community Mental Health 61 (4), 603-611

Yonatan-Leus, R., Gwirzman, G., & Tishby, O. (2024). Using machine learning methods to identify trajectories and predict responders and non-responders to short-term dynamic therapy. Psychotherapy Research.

Yonatan-Leus, R., & Tishby, O. (2024). Responsiveness and Clinical Judgment as an Alternative to Drifting: A Narrative Update. Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, 55, pp. 69-75.

Yonatan-Leus, R., & Karako-Eyal, N. (2024). Consent to voluntary antipsychotic drug treatment it free and informed? Psychiatric rehabilitation journal.

Yonatan-Leus, R., & Brukner, H. (2024). Comparing perceived empathy and intervention strategies of an AI chatbot and human psychotherapists in online mental health support. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, , 25(1).

Shulman., S., & Yonatan-Leus, R. (2024). The longitudinal correlates of breakup distress in early young adulthood: future distress and future benefits. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 41(10), pp. 3008-3030.

Shulman, S., & Yonatan-Leus, R. (2024). The long arm of rejection sensitivity and young adults' romantic relationships: An extension and a replication. Journal of Adolescence, 1–10.

Yonatan-Leus, R., & Cooper-Kazaz, R. (2024). Are Therapist Effects More Crucial than We Thought?. Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, 55, pp. 51-56.

Yonatan-Leus, R., Abargil, M., Shefler, G., Finkenberg, R., & Amir, I. (2023). Trajectories of change among highly challenging patients in intensive long-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1– 13.

Shulman, Shmuel, Yonatan-Leus, Refael & Silberberg, O. (2023). Understanding stability and change in depressive symptom trajectories across young adulthood through the lens of career development: A mixed-methods study. International Journal of Behavioral Development

Shulman, S., Yonatan-Leus, R., & Seiffge-Krenke, I. (2023). Casual sexual relationships and their increase over time among Israeli emerging adults: Do these associate with the quality of future relationships? Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

Gaby Shefler, Maayan Abargil, Refael Yonatan-Leus, Ron Finkenberg & Ilan Amir (2023) Empirical examination of long-term and intensive psychodynamic psychotherapy for severely disturbed patients, Psychotherapy Research

Abargil, M., Wiseman, H., Yonatan-Leus, Refael & Tishby, O. (2023). Changes in clients' relational patterns with parents and therapist during psychodynamic psychotherapy: Their association and relation to treatment outcome. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 79(10), 2422–2438

Refael Yonatan-Leus, Maayan Abargil & Rena Cooper-Kazaz (2022) The combined effect of psychodynamic psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy on healthcare cost, Psychotherapy Research, 32(7)

Shulman, S., Seiffge-Krenke, I., Leus, R. Y., & Livneh, E. (2021). Change in reflective functioning among young adults following psychotherapy. Themenheft Jugendlichen –Psychotherapie.

Yonatan-Leus, R., Shefler, G., & Tishby, O. (2020). Do positive features of mental health change together with symptoms and do they predict each other? Psychotherapy.

Yonatan-Leus, R, Strauss, A., & Cooper-Kazaz, R. (2020). Psychodynamic Psychotherapy is Associated with Sustained Reduction in Health Care Utilization and Cost. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy.

Shefler, G, Lederman, S., & Yonatan-Leus, R. (2020). Ethical Issues in Psychotherapy of Other Therapists: Description, Considerations, and Ways of Coping. In M. Trachsel, S. Tekin, W. Biller-Andorno, J. Gaab, & J. Z. Sadler (Ed.) Handbook of Psychotherapy Ethics. Oxford University Press.

Yonatan‐Leus, R., Tishby, O., Abargil, M., & Wiseman, H. (2019). Therapist Effects in Yearlong Psychodynamic Therapy: An Exploratory Study. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy.

Yonatan-Leus, R., Shefler, G., & Tishby, O. (2019). Changes in playfulness, creativity and honesty as possible outcomes of psychotherapy. Psychotherapy Research, 1-12.

Yonatan-Leus, R., Tishby, O., Shefler, G., & Wiseman, H. (2018). Therapists’ honesty, humor styles, playfulness, and creativity as outcome predictors: A retrospective study of the therapist effect. Psychotherapy Research, 28(5), 793-802.

Yonatan-Leus, R. (2013) the Pre-Traumatic Zionist Dream: A Freudian Study of Biblical Etymological Interpretations of the Name ‘Zion’. Magnes Press. Ma’arag : The Israeli Annual of Psychoanalysis, Volume 4, pp. (137-175).