Infant Research and Adult Treatment: Co-constructing Interactions
“This ground-breaking book is one of the most creative and valuable contributions to psychoanalysis to appear in the last decade.  Applying the fascinating discoveries of infant-mother observational research to the treatment of adult patients, Beebe and Lachmann open up new ways of understanding and working with the myriad communications between patient and analyst that form the core of the analytic process.  An educational experience in itself, this book should be required reading for anyone working in the mental health field today.”- Theodore J. Jacobs, Ph.D., New York and NYU Psychoanalytic Institutes“This extraordinary book is a critical landmark in the psychoanalytic literature.  The culmination of decades of dialogue between the coauthors,Infant Research and Adult Treatment provides rich new metaphors, scenarios, and narratives for practitioners.  Beebe and Lachmann lay out a sophisticated paradigm of the origins of relatedness and a complex systems view of mind as organized in interaction.  Disposing definitively of any residual sense that clinical psychoanalysis and infant research cannot fully address, and benefit from, the insights of the other, they bring the conversation between these disparate disciplines to an exciting and creative new level.”- Lewis Aron, Ph.D., Director, NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis“Infant Research and Adult Treatmentcontributes greatly to our understanding of how infants interact with their caretakers.  In addition, the authors ambitiously invite us to rethink some of our assumptions about what it is we do with our patients that leads to change.  It seems to me they succeed admirably. . . . their effort must be applauded and their book should be enjoyed and appreciated for all it has to teach us.” - Ruth R. Imber,JAPA