Infant Research and Adult Treatment: Co-Constructing Interactions

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Summary: Both a reference and a treatment guide
Review: Infant Research And Adult Treatment: Co-constructing Interactions by Beatrice Beebe (Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University) and Frank M. Lachmann (Clinical Assistant Professor, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis) is a scholarly, meticulous and comprehensive summary of the authors extensive and longer term efforts to research and better understand the psychology of parent-infant bonds and the thought processes of infants. Applying their work to current psychoanalytic treatments of adult patients, a body of original research that traces psychological problems all the way back to pre-verbal childhood days, Infant Research And Adult Treatment is both a reference and a treatment guide, which is confidently recommended for academic psychology/psychiatry reference libraries, as well as supplemental reading lists or for students, researchers, and practitioners with a professional interest in contemporary psychoanalytic research.