Infant Research and Adult Treatment

Infant Research and Adult Treatment is the first synoptic rendering of Beebe's and Lachmann's impressive body of work. Therapists unfamiliar with current research findings will find here a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of infant comp

Beatrice Beebe, Ph.D., a psychoanalyst and infant researcher, is Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University, where she has been doing infancy research for 30 years, first with Daniel Stern, M.D., and then with Joseph Jaffe, M.D. She teaches at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, and the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Frank M. Lachmann, Ph.D., is a founding faculty member of the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, Training and Supervising Analyst, Postgraduate Center for Mental Health, and Clinical Assistant Professor at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He has contributed over 100 articles to the journal literature, and is author of Transforming Aggression (Aronson, 2000), and co-author of Self and Motivational Systems (TAP, 1992), The Clinical Exchange (TAP, 1996), and Infant Research and Adult Treatment (TAP, 2002).

Introduction. A Dyadic Systems View. Interactive Reorganization of Self-Regulation: The Case of Karen. Early Capacities and Presymbolic Representation. Patterns of Early Interactive Regulation. Coconstructing Inner and Relational Processes: Self- and Interactive Regulation in Infant Research and Adult Treatment. Representation and Internalization in Infancy: Three Principles of Salience. Three Principles of Salience in the Organization of the Patient-Analytic Interaction. An Interactive Model of the Mind for Adult Treatment.