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Rhythms
of Dialogue in Infancy
Author
: Joseph Jaffe M.D, Beatrice Beebe Ph.D, Stanley Feldstein
Ph.D, Cynthia L. Crown Ph.D, Michael D. Jasnow Ph.D
Publisher : Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published : 2001
Coordination between infant and adult is
thought to be essential to infant development. However, the
evidence is sparse. The study is theoretically and methodologically
grounded in a dyadic systems perspective and relational psychoanalysis.
Our automated apparatus explores the micro-second timing of
4-month infant-adult vocal coordination to predict 12-month
infant attachment and cognition. Coordination was related
to the contexts of partner (mother/stranger), site (home/lab)
and outcome (attachment/cognition). Although "more"
coordination is generally assumed to be "better",
a midrange was optimal for attachment (enhancing flexibility),
and a high degree between stranger and infant in the lab was
optimal for cognition ("high novelty response").
Stranger-infant coordination showed more mutual (bidirectional)
coordination than mother-infant, suggesting that the measure
assesses vigilance rather than "attunement." Stranger-infant
coordination predicted attachment just as well as mother-infant,
and was a more powerful predictor of cognition. This work
further defines a fundamental dyadic timing matrix that guides
the trajectory of infant development.
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Forms
of Intersubjectivity in Infant Research and Adult Treatment
Author
: Beatrice Beebe Ph.D, Steven Knoblauch Ph.D, Judith Rustin
M.S.W, Dorienne Sorter Ph.D, Theodore Jacobs M.D, & Regina
Pally M.D
Publisher : Other Press
Published : 2005
This book demonstrates that forms of intersubjectivity
documented in infant research are richly relevant to adult psychoanalytic
forms of intersubjectivity. Adult psychoanalysis has approached
the study of intersubjectivity by concentrating primarily on
the verbal dialogue, an explicit mode of communication. Infant
research, on the other hand, focuses on nonverbal communication
and implicit modes of action sequences, operating largely out
of awareness, such as interactions of gaze, facial expression,
and body rhythms. This book proposes that an integration of
these two approaches is essential to a deeper understanding
of the therapeutic action.
The authors use a dyadic systems model of self- and interactive
regulation as a lens for comparing diverse theories of intersubjectivity,
both in adults and infants. Building on the definition of intersubjectivity
in infancy as correspondence and matching of expressions, the
authors offer an expanded view of the presymbolic origins of
intersubjectivity. They address the place of interactive regulation,
problems with the concept of matching, the roles of self-regulation
and of difference, and the balance of self- and interactive
regulation. An adult treatment of early trauma is described
through detailed clinical case material illustrating both the
verbal narrative and the implicit "action dialogue"
operating largely outside of awareness.
This book includes new discussions by Theodore
Jacobs, arguing that nonverbal communication is vitally important
to psychoanalysis, and by Regina Pally, arguing that aspects
of this book have parallels in neuroscience.
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