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The Pacella Parent Child Center (http://www.theparentchildcenter.org) of the New York Psychoanalytic Society is developing a unique archive containing a wide range of data on parent-child interaction that is available to qualified researchers. The data include audiotapes and videotapes of parents, children, and staff, interviews with mothers and fathers, and coded transcriptions of the audio material and questionnaires. The archive reflects the psychoanalytic focus of the investigators who designed it, but the data are of general interest for a wide range of investigations. The data are being organized in a centralized database, with emphasis on security and effective retrieval capabilities in response to particular questions.
While over the past several decades many important studies have been carried out based on observations of mother-child interactions, to the best of our knowledge none has compiled a systematic archive including raw data together with findings potentially available for external use, and none has included the types of observations we include in our database. The research data are stored in the form of texts, codes,