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| Beatrice Beebe, PhD at ICP - Wednesday, November 7 |
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Wednesday, Nov 7
Beatrice Beebe, PhD
Microanalysis of Mother-Infant Communication
The origins of disorganized attachment
Research on the origins of disorganized attachment will be presented, illustrated by films and frame-by-frame analyses. Disorganized attachment poses the torturous paradox that the infant’s source of safety is also a source of threat and alarm. The findings demonstrate that
remarkable dysregulations of attention, affect, spatial orientation, and touch at 4 months predict disorganized attachment at one year. We infer from the results that the future disorganized infant has difficulty feeling known by his mother, for example as she shows smile/surprise expressions to his distress; has difficulty knowing his mother, for example, as she“closes up” her face and becomes inscrutable; and has difficulty knowing himself, for example, in moments of discrepant affect, smiling and whimpering in same second. Since disorganized attachment at 12 months predicts dissociative difficulties in young adulthood, understanding these interactions offers insight into adult psychopathology and transference. This research is linked to theories of the origins of dissociation in adulthood: inescapable threat, failures of integration, and failures of recognition. Threatening/threatened, dysregulated and dissociated patterns of interaction in infancy may have analogues in adult treatment.
Beatrice Beebe, PhD is Clinical Professor of Psychology (in Psychiatry), College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University; Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute. She directs a basic research lab on mother-infant communication. She is faculty at several psychoanalytic institutes, and she has a private practice for adults and mother-infant pairs. She is author or co-author of 6 books. The most recent is The mother-infant interaction picture book: Origins of attachment (Beebe, Cohen & Lachman, Norton, 2016). For a decade she directed a pro bono primary prevention project for mothers who were pregnant and widowed on 9-11 (Beebe, Cohen, Sossin, & Markese, Eds., Mothers, infants and young children of September 11, 2001: A primary prevention project, 2012). A documentary film about her research is available (website of the Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing [PEPweb], Mother-Infant Communication: The Research of Dr. Beatrice Beebe, by Karen Dougherty, 2016).
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You will see the Full Series pass as well as the
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Full Series Pass
Current trainee or student $70
SICP Member $120
General Admission $140
Individual Lectures
Current trainee or student $20
SICP Member $35
General Admission $40
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Wednesday, November 7
7-9 pm. Doors open at 6:30
In the ICP Library, 1841 Broadway, 4th floor
New York, NY 10023 (enter on 60th Street)
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The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy
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