Attachment, Development, and Trauma

Recent Publications

Schechter, D. S., & Willheim, E. (in press). Evaluation of possible child sexual abuse and its sequelae in the case of an adult female patient. In J. W. Barnhill (Ed.), Approach to the Psychiatric Patient. Wasington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Press.

Schechter, D. S., & Willheim, E. (in press). The effects of violent experience and maltreatment on infants and young children. In C. H. Zeanah (Ed.), Handbook of Infant Mental Health, 3rd Edition. New York: Guilford Press.

Stahl, A. S., Shapiro, T., Hertzig, M. E., & Turchin, W. (2008b). When clozapine doesn't work: Two case reports of treatment-refractory adolescent schizophrenia. In Flaherty, Lois T (Ed) (2008) Adolescent psychiatry (Vol 30) (pp. 179-192). New York, NY: The Analytic Press/Taylor & Francis Group.

Critchfield, K. L., Levy, K. N., Clarkin, J. F., & Kernberg, O. F. (2008). The relational context of aggression in borderline personality disorder: Using adult attachment style to predict forms of hostility. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 64(1), 67-82.

Friedman, R. C., & Downey, J. I. (2008). Sexual Differentiation of Behavior: The Foundation of a Developmental Model of Psychosexuality (Vol. 56, pp. 147-175).

Kelly, K. V. (2008). Witnessing horror at the World Trade Center. American Journal of Psychiatry, 165(2), 261-262.

Stahl, A. S., Shapiro, T., Hertzig, M. E., & Turchin, W. (2008a). Drs. Stahl et al. respond to Dr. Sugar's discussion. In Flaherty, Lois T (Ed) (2008) Adolescent psychiatry (Vol 30) (pp. 199-200). New York, NY: The Analytic Press/Taylor & Francis Group.

Schechter, D. S., Zygmunt, A., Trabka, K. A., Davies, M., Colon, E., Kolodji, A., et al. (2007). Child mental representations of attachment when mothers are traumatized: The relationship of family-drawings to story-stem completion. Journal of Early Childhood and Infant Psychology Vol 3 2007, 119-140.

Anzieu-Premmereur, C. (2007a). Discussion of Lewis Kirshner's paper: Figurations of the Real: representation of trauma in a dream. American Journal of Psychoanalysis, 8, 40-46.

Anzieu-Premmereur, C. (2007c). Naissance de la pensee et de l'humour. Carnet Psy, 118, 43-50.

Beebe, B., Jaffe, J., Buck, K., Chen, H., Cohen, P., Blatt, S., et al. (2007). Six-week postpartum maternal self-criticism and dependency and 4-month mother-infant self- and interactive contingencies. Developmental Psychology, 43(6), 1360-1376.

Diamond, D., & Yeomans, F. E. (2007). Oedipal love and conflict in the transference/countertransference matrix: Its impact on attachment security and mentalization. In Attachment and sexuality (pp. 201-235). New York, NY: The Analytic Press/Taylor & Francis Group.

Kaminer, T., Beebe, B., Jaffe, J., Kelly, K., & Marquette, L. (2007). Mothers' dependent and self-critical depressive experience is related to speech content with infants. Journal of Early Childhood and Infant Psychology, 3, 163-184.

Pender, V. B., Brandt, J. C., Mahfouz, A., & Tylim, I. (2007). Approaches to prevention of intergenerational transmission of hate, war and violence. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 88(2), 507-514.

Ritter, M., Bucci, W., Beebe, B., Jaffe, J., & Maskit, B. (2007). Do mothers of secure infants speak differently than mothers of avoidant infants in natural conversations? An interpersonal exploration of language differences. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 55(1), 269-275.

Savin-Williams, R. C., & Cohen, K. M. (2007). Development of same-sex attracted youth. In The health of sexual minorities: Public health perspectives on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender populations (pp. 27-47). New York, NY: Springer Science + Business Media.

Schechter, D. S., & Davis, B. E. (2007). Parenting in time of crisis. Psychiatric Annals, 37(6), 423-428.

Schechter, D. S., Zygmunt, A., Coates, S. W., Davies, M., Trabka, K. A., McCaw, J., et al. (2007). Caregiver traumatization adversely impacts young children's mental representations on the MacArthur Story Stem Battery. Attachment & Human Development, 9(3), 187-205.

Young-Bruehl, E. (2006). Coming of age in New York city: Two homeless boys. Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 75(1), 323-343.