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Overview

Beatrice Beebe is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States and has a research focus primarily within the fields of psychology and medicine. Their scholarly output reflects a substantial engagement with clinical and social psychology, as well as developmental and educational psychology, alongside specialized interest in health, toxicology, and mutagenesis.

Beebe's research topics encompass a range of areas related to child development, mental health, and environmental health impacts. Key themes include:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Infant Health and Development
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Noise Effects and Management

Their recent scholarly contributions include the following papers:

  • Pandemic beyond the virus: maternal COVID-related postnatal stress is associated with infant temperament, 2022, published in Pediatric Research
  • Infant research and adult treatment revisited: Cocreating self- and interactive regulation., 2020, published in Psychoanalytic Psychology
  • Intersubjectivity and the Emergence of Words, 2022, published in Frontiers in Psychology
  • Convergent neural correlates of prenatal exposure to air pollution and behavioral phenotypes of risk for internalizing and externalizing problems: Potential biological and cognitive pathways, 2022, published in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • Urgent engagement in 9/11 pregnant widows and their infants: Transmission of trauma, 2020, published in Infancy

Beebe's frequent coauthors highlight collaborative work with:

  • Amy Margolis
  • Julie B. Herbstman
  • Sang H. Lee
  • William P. Fifer
  • Virginia Rauh

Their research appears regularly in specific academic venues, with multiple publications in:

  • Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Infant Behavior and Development
  • Psychoanalytic Dialogues
  • Pediatric Research
  • Psychoanalytic Psychology

Best Publications

  • Infant Research and Adult Treatment: Co-constructing Interactions

    Beatrice Beebe;Frank M. Lachmann

  • Rhythms of Dialogue in Infancy: Coordinated Timing in Development.

    Joseph Jaffe;Beatrice Beebe;Stanley Feldstein;Cynthia L. Crown

  • The contribution of mother-infant mutual influence to the origins of self- and object representations.

    Beatrice Beebe;Frank M. Lachmann

  • The Origins of 12-Month Attachment: A Microanalysis of 4-Month Mother-Infant Interaction

    Beatrice Beebe;Joseph Jaffe;Sara Markese;Karen Buck

  • Representation and internalization in infancy: three principles of salience

    Beatrice Beebe;Frank M. Lachmann

  • Mother—infant interaction structures and presymbolic self‐ and object representations

    Beatrice Beebe;Frank Lachmann;Joseph Jaffe

  • Forms of Intersubjectivity in Infant Research and Adult Treatment

    Beatrice Beebe

  • Engagement-Disengagement and Early Object Experiences

    Beatrice Beebe;Daniel N. Stern

  • A dyadic systems view of communication.

    Beatrice Beebe;Joseph Jaffe;Frank M. Lachmann

  • Co-constructing inner and relational processes: Self- and mutual regulation in infant research and adult treatment.

    Beatrice Beebe;Frank M. Lachmann

  • The Origins of Attachment: Infant Research and Adult Treatment

    Beatrice Beebe;Frank M. Lachmann

  • VOCALIZING IN UNISON AND IN ALTERNATION: TWO MODES OF COMMUNICATION WITHIN THE MOTHER-INFANT DYAD*

    Daniel N. Stern;Joseph Jaffe;Beatrice Beebe;Stephen L. Bennett

  • Brief mother–infant treatment: Psychoanalytically informed video feedback

    Beatrice Beebe

  • Systems models in development and psychoanalysis: The case of vocal rhythm coordination and attachment

    Beatrice Beebe;Joseph Jaffe;Frank Lachmann;Stanley Feldstein

  • A Systems View of Mother-Infant Face-to-Face Communication.

    Beatrice Beebe;Daniel Messinger;Lorraine E. Bahrick;Amy Margolis

  • Six‐week postpartum maternal depressive symptoms and 4‐month mother–infant self‐ and interactive contingency

    Beatrice Beebe;Joseph Jaffe;Karen Buck;Henian Chen

  • On the Origins of Disorganized Attachment and Internal Working Models: Paper II. An Empirical Microanalysis of 4-Month Mother-Infant Interaction.

    Beatrice Beebe;Frank M. Lachmann;Sara Markese;Karen A. Buck

  • How does microanalysis of mother-infant communication inform maternal sensitivity and infant attachment?

    Beatrice Beebe;Miriam Steele

  • Mother-Infant Research Informs Mother-Infant Treatment

    Beatrice Beebe

  • MATERNAL ANXIETY SYMPTOMS AND MOTHER-INFANT SELF- AND INTERACTIVE CONTINGENCY

    Beatrice Beebe;Miriam Steele;Joseph Jaffe;Karen A. Buck

Frequent Co-Authors

Lorraine E. Bahrick
Lorraine E. Bahrick Florida International University
Patricia Cohen
Patricia Cohen Columbia University
Miriam Steele
Miriam Steele New School
Sidney J. Blatt
Sidney J. Blatt Yale University
Frederica P. Perera
Frederica P. Perera Columbia University
Daniel S. Messinger
Daniel S. Messinger University of Miami
Jerome C. Wakefield
Jerome C. Wakefield New York University

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