Beatrice Beebe, Ph.D.
Clinical Professor of Medical Psychology in Psychiatry
Teaching Faculty
Private Office
219 West 22nd St. New York, NY 10011-2702
Professional Biography
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 Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; co-author with Jaffe et al of Rhythms of Dialogue in Infancy (Blackwell Publishing, 2001), author with Lachmann of Infant Research and Adult Treatment: Co-Constructing Interactions (Analytic Press, 2002), and author with Knoblauch, Rustin and Sorter of Forms of Intersubjectivity in Infant Research and Adult Treatment (Other Press, 2005). She is in private practice in New York City, specializing in adult psychoanalysis and mother-infant treatment. Currently she directs a primary prevention program for mothers who were pregnant and widowed on 9-11.
Selected Presentations and Publications
Jaffe, J., Beebe, B., Feldstein, S., Crown, C.L., & Jasnow, M. (2001). Rhythms of Dialogue in Infancy. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, Series 264, Vol 66 (2), 1-132.
Beebe, B., & Lachmann, F. (2002). Infant Research and Adult Treatment: Co-Constructing Interactions. Hillsdale, N.J.: Analytic Press.
Beebe, B., Knoblauch, S., Rustin, J., & Sorter, D. (2005). Forms of Intersubjectivity in Infant Research and Adult Treatment. New York: Other Press.
Beebe, B., Jaffe, J., Markese, S., Buck, K., Chen, H., Cohen, P., Bahrick, L., Andrews, H., & Feldstein, S. The origins of 12-month attachment: A microanalysis of 4-month mother-infant interaction. Attachment & Human Development, 12 (1-2), 1-135.
Grant Support
2007-2008: Individual Donations, Beatrice Beebe, Ph.D./Infant Research Fund, $50,000.
2007-2009: Fund for Psychoanalytic Research, Mother-Infant to Stranger-Infant: Depression andAttachment, $40,000.
2008: Koehler Foundation, Munich, Germany: P.I.: Mother-Infant to Stranger-Infant: Depression and Attachment” $20,000.
2008: The International Association for Psychoanalytic Self Psychology Research Committee, $10,000, Mother-Infant to Stranger-Infant: Depression and Attachment.
2008: International Psychoanalytic Association Research Fund: Mother-Infant to Stranger-Infant: Depression and Attachment $10,000.
9-11 Mothers and Young Children Project
2007-2008: Kenworthy-Swift Foundation, $25,000.
2007-2009: American Psychological Foundation-Visionary Grant, $10,000.
2007-2008: Scott Hazelcorn Children’s Foundation, $15,000.
2007: The American Psychoanalytic Fund, $5,000.
2008-2011: Scott Hazelcorn Children’s Foundation, $75,000.
Education and Training
1964-1966: Smith College
1968: B.A., Barnard College, Cum Laude
1973: Ph.D., Columbia University: joint doctoral program in clinical and developmental psychology, Teachers College. Dissertation sponsor: Daniel Stern, M.D.
1986: Certificate Specialization Psychotherapy - Psychoanalysis, N.Y.U. Postdoc. Program
Honors
1973: Kappa Chapter Sigma XI, Columbia Univ. (Honorary Scien. Res. Soc. North America) 1999: Distinguished Scientific Award, American Psychological Assoc., Division of Psychoanalysis, April. 2002: The John Bowlby Memorial Lecture, London, March. 2002: The Lily Gondor Memorial Award, Postgraduate Center for Mental Health 2005: The Solnit Award for contribution to the Psychoanalytic Study of the Child. 2006: NIP Book Recognition Award for: (1) Beebe, B., & Lachmann, F. (2002). Infant Research and Adult Treatment: Co-Constructing Interactions. Hillsdale, N.J.: Analytic Press., and (2) Beebe, B., Knoblauch, S., Rustin, J., & Sorter, D. (2005). Forms of Intersubjectivity in Infant Research and Adult Treatment. New York: Other Press. 2008: The Morton Schillimger Award for Lifetime Contributions to Psychoanalysis, American Psychological Assoc., Division of Psychoanalysis, Section V. April 12. Shared with Frank Lachmann, PhD.
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