The Origins of Attachment: Infant Research and Adult
Treatment addresses the origins of attachment in
mother-infant face-to-face communication. New patterns
of relational disturbance in infancy are described.
These aspects of communication are out of conscious
awareness. They provide clinicians with new ways of
thinking about infancy, and about nonverbal
communication in adult treatment. Utilizing an
extraordinarily detailed microanalysis of videotaped
mother-infant interactions at 4 months, Beatrice Beebe,
Frank Lachmann, and their research collaborators provide
a more fine-grained and precise description of the
process of attachment transmission. Second-by-second
microanalysis operates like a social microscope and
reveals more than can be grasped with the naked eye. The
book explores how, alongside linguistic content, the
bodily aspect of communication is an essential component
of the capacity to communicate and understand emotion.
The moment-to-moment self- and interactive processes of
relatedness documented in infant research form the
bedrock of adult face-to-face communication and provide
the background fabric for the verbal narrative in the
foreground. The Origins of Attachment is illustrated
throughout with several case vignettes of adult
treatment. Discussions by Carolyn Clement, Malcolm
Slavin and E. Joyce Klein, Estelle Shane, Alexandra
Harrison and Stephen Seligman show how the research can
be used by practicing clinicians. This book details
aspects of bodily communication between mothers and
infants that will provide useful analogies for
therapists of adults. It will be essential reading for
psychoanalysts, psychotherapists and graduate students.
Collaborators Joseph Jaffe, Sara Markese, Karen A. Buck,
Henian Chen, Patricia Cohen, Lorraine Bahrick, Howard
Andrews, Stanley Feldstein Discussants Carolyn Clement,
Malcolm Slavin, E. Joyce Klein, Estelle Shane, Alexandra
Harrison, Stephen Seligman |
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