On the Origins of Disorganized Attachment and Internal Working Models: Paper I. A Dyadic Systems Approach

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 Programe in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; co-author with Jaffe, Feldstein et al. of Rhythems of Dialogue in Infancy (2001); author with Lachmann of Infant Research and Adult Treatment: Co-Constructing Interactions (2002), author with Knoblauch, Rustin and Sorter of Forms of Intersubjectivity in Infant Research and Adult Treatment (2005); author with Jaffe, Markese, et al. of The origins of 12-month attachment: A microanalysis of 4-month mother-infant interaction (2010). Currently she directs a primary prevention project for mothers who were pregnant and widowed on 9–11. The project therapists have written a book, edited by Beebe, Cohen, Sossin & Markese, Mothers, infants and young children of September 11, 2001: A primary prevention project (2012).

Frank M. Lachmann, Ph.D., is a Teacher and Supervisor as a member of the Founding Faculty of the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, New York; and a Clinical Assistant Professor, in the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He is author or co-author of more than 100 journal publications. He is author of Transforming Narcissim: Reflections on Empathy, Humor, and Expectations (Analytic Press, 2008).

Sara Markese, Ph.D., is a Clinical Psychologist speciallizing in the treatment of trauma and affective dysregulation in early childhood. She practices in Fairfax, Virgina, USA. She is a former Postdoctoral Fellow, and current research collaborator with Dr. Beebe, in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Communication Sciences, Lab, at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, Columbia University.

Dr. Lorraine E. Bahrick is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Infant Development Lab and the Infant Development Research Center at Florida International University. She received her Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1980 and did her postdoctoral training at the University of California, Berkely. Her research interests include the developement of attention, perception, learning and memory in typical development and autism. She is author of more than 60 journal articles and book chapters, and her research has received continuous funding from the National Institutes of Health for more than 30 years.