THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS
OF THE KAREN HORNEY PSYCHOANALYTIC CENTER
329 East 62nd Street New York, NY 10065
(212) 838-8044 www.aipnyc.org aipkh@aol.com
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Celebrating 70 Years of the American Institute for Psychoanalysis
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SCIENTIFIC MEETING
Thursday, February 16, 2012 at 8:00 PM
Beatrice Beebe
On knowing and being known in the 4-month origins of disorganized attachment, and implications for adult treatment
This lecture presents videotapes and frame-by-frame analyses illustrating research on 4-month patterns of mother-infant interaction which predict 12-month infant disorganized (vs. secure) attachment. Infant attachment disorganization at 12 months is known to predict attachment insecurity and dissociation in young adulthood, yet little is known about its origins prior to 12 months. Remarkable 4-month mother-infant dysregulations of attention, affect, spatial orientation and touch will be shown in dyads where infants will be classified disorganized. Based on the findings, inferences are made regarding how 4-month future disorganized vs. future secure infants come to know, and be known by, mother’s mind, as well as to know their own minds. A brief vignette of an adult treatment of early trauma will also be presented to show parallels between processes of knowing and being known by the partner in infancy and in adult treatment.
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Beatrice Beebe, PhD, is a psychoanalyst and infant researcher. She is known for her analysis of development at the beginning of life and also for her ability to connect early development with the psychotherapy of adults. She is Clinical Professor of Medical Psychology at the College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University, NY State Psychiatric Institute; Faculty at the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center; the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity; and the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She is the first author of Infant Research and Adult Treatment: Co-Constructing Interactions (2002), and Forms of Intersubjectivity in Infant Research and Adult Treatment (2005). She is co-author with Jaffe et al. of Rhythms of Dialogue in Infancy (2001). She recently completed a monograph, after more than a decade of work: The Origins of 12-Month Attachment: A microanalysis of 4-Month Mother-Infant Interaction. She has edited, with Cohen, Sossin and Markese, Mothers, infants and young children of September 11, 2001: A primary prevention project (forthcoming in 2012, Routledge). Dr. Beebe is in private practice in NYC, specializing in adult psychoanalysis and mother-infant treatment.
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KAREN HORNEY CLINIC AUDITORIUM
329 East 62nd Street (Between 1st & 2nd Avenues)
ALL COLLEAGUES ARE WELCOME
Free Admission
Please RSVP to aipkh@aol.com by February 13
Scientific Meetings Committee:
Giselle Galdi, PhD, Chair; Riva Tait, PhD, Vice-Chair;
Diane Friedman, PhD; Arthur Lynch, DSW & Kenneth Winarick, PhD
AIP Scientific Meetings Committee Fellows:
Hannah Emmerich, LMSW, Aisha Collins, MA