The Mother-Infant Interaction Picture Book: Origins of Attachment

An internationally known researcher presents a comprehensive, illustrated analysis of mother-infant interactions.

Using video microanalysis—which captures moment-to-moment sequences of interactions—Beatrice Beebe and her colleagues have turned their lens on the most primary of relationships, mother and infant. This process becomes a “social microscope,” enabling readers to see subtle details of interactions which are too rapid and complex to grasp in real time with the naked eye. These momen...