Reply to Downing, Jacobs, and Schneider

Larry S. Sandberg, M.D., is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College and on the teaching faculty at Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. His areas of interest are interdisciplinary studies and combined treatment in psychoanalysis. He is in full time private practice.

Beatrice Beebe, Ph.D., is Clinical Professor of Psychology (in Psychiatry), College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University; Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York State Psychiatric Institute. She directs a basic research lab on mother-infant communication. She is faculty at several psychoanalytic institutes, and she has a private practice for adults and mother-infant pairs. She is author or coauthor of 6 books and 77 peer-reviewed articles. The most recent book is The mother-infant interaction picture book: Origins of attachment (Beebe, Cohen & Lachman, Norton, 2016). For a decade she directed a pro bono primary prevention project for mothers who were pregnant and widowed on 9-11 (Beebe, Cohen, Sossin, & Markese, Eds., Mothers, infants and young children of September 11, 2001: A primary prevention project, 2012). A documentary film about her research is available (website of the Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing [PEPweb], Mother-infant communication: The research of Dr. Beatrice Beebe, by Karen Dougherty, 2016). She has a half-hour internet talk, “Decoding the nonverbal language of babies” (http://www.aei.org/events/decoding-the-nonverbal-language-of-babies/), and an hour-long internet interview about her work: (Part one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wyzy4ShfgFE) (Part two: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N50jY6vWEOM).
Correspondence should be addressed to Larry S. Sandberg, M.D., 205 E 78 St., #1A, New York, NY 10075, USA. E-mail: