Commentary on a triadic developmental system: Implications of infant research for couples treatment by David Shaddock PhD

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Beatrice Beebe,

Beatrice Beebe is an internationally recognized developmental and clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. She is an infant researcher known for both video microanalysis of mother-infant interaction and its implications for infant and adult treatment. She has published 6 books, 75 peer-reviewed articles, 20 chapters; she has given over 90 peer-reviewed research conference contributions, and 200 national/international lectures. Her frame-by-frame video microanalyses provide a “social microscope” that reveals subtle details of interactions too rapid to grasp in real time with the naked eye. Her microscope has illuminated a dyadic systems view of communication; the origins of attachment; and the effects of risk conditions on mother-infant communication, such as maternal self-criticism, depression and anxiety, infant prematurity, and being pregnant and widowed on September 11, 2001, the World Trade Center bombing. More than 100 students have been trained in her research laboratory at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University Medical Center over the last three decades.