Recognition and Disturbances of Recognition

Beatrice Beebe is Clinical Professor of Psychology (in Psychiatry), College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University, and New York State Psychiatric Institute. She is an infant researcher and a psychoanalyst, known for video microanalysis of mother-infant interaction and its implications for infant and adult treatment. 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 research investigates early mother-infant face-to-face communication: the effects of maternal distress (depression, anxiety, trauma of being pregnant and widowed on 9/11), the prediction of infant attachment patterns, and the long-term continuity of communication from infancy to adulthood. More than 100 students have been trained in her research laboratory over the last three decades. Her most recent book is: The mother-infant interaction picture book: Origins of attachment (Beebe, Cohen & Lachman, Norton, 2016).

Hope Igleheart, LP, is a Senior Member and faculty member of NPAP. She has studied with Dr. Beebe in one of her groups observing mother infant interactions and, in the mid-2000s, worked in Dr. Beebe’s lab where they created a follow up study (which Hope ran) of the mother-baby dyads that were filmed in the 1980s. Mothers and their firstborn offspring returned to the lab to participate in a full day of filming and a range of questionnaires and interviews.