Beatrice Beebe, Ph.D.

Beatrice Beebe Ph.D. is Clinical Professor of Medical Psychology (in Psychiatry), College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University, New York State Psychiatric Institute; faculty at the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center, the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, and the N.Y.U. Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; co-author with Jaffe et al of Rhythms of Dialogue in Infancy (Blackwell Publishing, 2001), author with Lachmann of Infant Research and Adult Treatment: Co-Constructing Interactions (Analytic Press, 2002), and author with Knoblauch, Rustin and Sorter of Forms of Intersubjectivity in Infant Research and Adult Treatment (Other Press, 2005). She is in private practice in New York City, specializing in adult psychoanalysis and mother-infant treatment. Currently she directs a primary prevention program for mothers who were pregnant and widowed on 9-11.

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Joseph Jaffe, M.D.

Joseph Jaffe, M.D. is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry (in Neurological Surgery), Columbia University and Chief, Department of Communication Sciences, New York State Psychiatric Institute. He is a basic behavioral researcher in infant and adult communication. Jaffe and Beebe published Rhythms of Dialogue in Infancy in the Monograph Series of the Society for Research in Child Development (Jaffe, Beebe, Feldstein, Crown, & Jasnow, 2001), predicting cognitive development and attachment security at one year from degrees of vocal rhythm coordination at 4 months, in mother-infant and stranger-infant face-to-face interactions.