Infant Research and Adult Treatment: Co-constructing Interactions

The first synoptic rendering of Beebe's and Lachmann's impressive body of work, Infant Research and Adult Treatment presents an up-to-date overview of infant competencies, and examination of the presymbolic representations to which these competencies give rise from a systems view of interaction, and an application of these findings to the dialogic context of the psychoanalytic situation. In detailed descriptions of clinical work with long-term patients, Beebe and Lachmann demonstrate how participation in the dyadic interaction reorganizes intrapsychic and relational processes in analyst and patient alike, and in ways both consonant with, and different from, what is observed in adult-infant interactions.