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This summary of work attempting to integrate infant studies with adult psychoanalysis addresses matters of interest to analytical psychology. Dr Lachmann, a psychoanalyst affiliated with self-psychology and the relational trend in America, weaves together two strands of collaborative work, one from predominantly American infant research, the other from motivational systems (Lichtenberg et al. 1992).
For those readers who may not be familiar with his work, Lachmann's prior writing with Beatrice Beebe provides perspective. Dr Beebe is a psychoanalyst and infant researcher with numerous collaborators including Daniel Stern. Using Stern's method of ‘microanalyses’ of videotaped mother-infant interactions, Beebe and Lachmann developed models with which to reconsider psychoanalytic notions concerning transference, psychopathology, object relationships, and internal structure development. Their work has affinities to Jungian ideas concerning what is considered archetypal and the origins of complexes.
Beebe, Lachmann, and Jaffe (1997) studied infant face to face social interaction, noting that child development research (in America) shifted in the late 1970 s toward a dyadic systems model of bi-directional influence between infant and caregiver to an ‘environmentalist’