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Karlen Lyons-Ruth

Karlen Lyons-Ruth

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Psychology

D-Index
69
Citations
28124
World Ranking
2329
National Ranking
1352

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1999 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Karlen Lyons-Ruth is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and specializes in research primarily within the fields of Psychology and Medicine. Their work spans subfields such as Clinical Psychology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Social Psychology, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, and Behavioral Neuroscience.

Their research focuses notably on topics including:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior
  • Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology

Prominent publication venues where Lyons-Ruth has contributed multiple studies include:

  • Infant Mental Health Journal
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Child Maltreatment
  • Developmental Psychobiology
  • Child Abuse & Neglect

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Lyons-Ruth include:

  • Emerging child competencies and personality pathology: toward a Developmental Cascade model of BPD (2020), Current Opinion in Psychology
  • Patterns of Maternal Childhood Maltreatment and Disrupted Interaction Between Mothers and Their 4-Month-Old Infants (2021), Child Maltreatment
  • Maternal Childhood Maltreatment Is Associated With Lower Infant Gray Matter Volume and Amygdala Volume During the First Two Years of Life (2021), Biological Psychiatry Global Open Science
  • Validation of the AMBIANCE-brief: An observational screening instrument for disrupted caregiving (2020), Infant Mental Health Journal
  • Developmental Pathways to BPD-Related Features in Adolescence: Infancy to Age 15 (2020), Journal of Personality Disorders

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Lyons-Ruth include:

  • Jennifer E. Khoury
  • Michelle Bosquet Enlow
  • Banu Ahtam
  • P. Ellen Grant
  • Yangming Ou

Lyons-Ruth has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association since 1999.

Best Publications

  • Non-Interpretive Mechanisms in Psychoanalytic Therapy: The 'Something More' Than Interpretation

    D. N Stern;L. W Sander;J. P Nahum;A. M Harrison

  • Attachment disorganization: Unresolved loss, relational violence, and lapses in behavioral and attentional strategies.

    Karlen Lyons-Ruth;Deborah Jacobvitz

  • Attachment relationships among children with aggressive behavior problems: the role of disorganized early attachment patterns.

    Karlen Lyons-Ruth

  • Disorganized infant attachment classification and maternal psychosocial problems as predictors of hostile-aggressive behavior in the preschool classroom.

    Karlen Lyons-Ruth;Lisbeth Alpern;Betty Repacholi

  • IMPLICIT RELATIONAL KNOWING: ITS ROLE IN DEVELOPMENT AND PSYCHOANALYTIC TREATMENT

    Karlen Lyons-Ruth;Nadia Bruschweiler-Stern;Alexandra M. Harrison;Alexander C. Morgan

  • The two‐person unconscious: Intersubjective dialogue, enactive relational representation, and the emergence of new forms of relational organization

    Karlen Lyons‐Ruth

  • Dyadically expanded states of consciousness and the process of therapeutic change

    Edward Z. Tronick;Nadia Bruschweiler-Stern;Alexandra M. Harrison;Karlen Lyons-Ruth

  • Infants at Social Risk: Maternal Depression and Family Support Services as Mediators of Infant Development and Security of Attachment

    Karlen Lyons-Ruth;David B. Connell;Henry U. Grunebaum;Sheila Botein

  • Attachment Studies with Borderline Patients: A Review

    Hans R. Agrawal;John Gunder Gunderson;Bjarne M. Holmes;Karlen Lyons-Ruth

  • The disturbed caregiving system: Relations among childhood trauma, maternal caregiving, and infant affect and attachment

    Karlen Lyons-Ruth;Deborah Block

  • Attachment disorganization: Genetic factors, parenting contexts, and developmental transformation from infancy to adulthood.

    Karlen Lyons-Ruth;Deborah Jacobvitz

  • Atypical attachment in infancy and early childhood among children at developmental risk. IV. Maternal frightened, frightening, or atypical behavior and disorganized infant attachment patterns.

    Karlen Lyons-Ruth;Elisa Bronfman;Elizabeth Parsons

  • Infant attachment strategies, infant mental lag, and maternal depressive symptoms: predictors of internalizing and externalizing problems at age 7.

    Karlen Lyons-Ruth;M. Ann Easterbrooks;Cherilyn Davidson Cibelli

  • The process of therapeutic change involving implicit knowledge: Some implications of developmental observations for adult psychotherapy

    Daniel N. Stern;Nadia Bruschweiler-Stern;Alexandra M. Harrison;Karlen Lyons-Ruth

  • BPD's interpersonal hypersensitivity phenotype: a gene-environment-developmental model.

    John Gunder Gunderson;Karlen Lyons-Ruth

  • From Infant Attachment Disorganization to Adult Dissociation: Relational Adaptations or Traumatic Experiences?

    Karlen Lyons-Ruth;Lissa Dutra;Michelle R. Schuder;Ilaria Bianchi

  • Disorganized attachment behavior in infancy: Short-term stability, maternal and infant correlates, and risk-related subtypes.

    Karlen Lyons-Ruth;Betty Repacholi;Sara McLeod;Eugenia Silva

  • Infants at Social Risk: Relations Among Infant Maltreatment, Maternal Behavior, and Infant Attachment Behavior

    Karlen Lyons-Ruth;David B. Connell;David Zoll;Julie Stahl

  • Face-to-face interactions of depressed mothers and their infants.

    Jeffrey F. Cohn;Reinaldo Matias;Edward Z. Tronick;David Connell

  • Dissociation and the Parent-Infant Dialogue: a Longitudinal Perspective From Attachment Research

    Karlen Lyons-Ruth

Frequent Co-Authors

M. Ann Easterbrooks
M. Ann Easterbrooks Tufts University
Sheri Madigan
Sheri Madigan University of Calgary
R. Peter Hobson
R. Peter Hobson University College London
Charles H. Zeanah
Charles H. Zeanah Tulane University
John G. Gunderson
John G. Gunderson Harvard University
John D. Haltigan
John D. Haltigan University of Toronto
Jude Cassidy
Jude Cassidy University of Maryland, College Park
Leslie Atkinson
Leslie Atkinson Toronto Metropolitan University
Kathryn A. Kerns
Kathryn A. Kerns Kent State University
Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg
Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg ISPA - University Institute of Psychological, Social and Life Sciences

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