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This Special double issue entitled 'Revisiting the Influence of the Early Mother-Infant Relationship on Later Development' will feature a special extended article by Beatrice Beebe and her colleagues on: The Origins of 12-Month Attachment: A Microanalysis of 4-Month Mother-Infant Interaction.
“This is a methodologically elegant and groundbreaking study that has vital importance to understanding the origins of variations in attachment security. In this monograph, Dr. Beebe and colleagues expand the boundaries of the attachment field by identifying distinct precursors to 12-month patterns of secure, anxious, and disorganized attachment, as seen in the face-to-face interactions between mothers and infants by four months of age. Their detailed microanalytic decomposition of the interactive dance between mother and infant in multiple communicative modalities makes this contribution a classic that will not soon be equaled.”
Karlen Lyons-Ruth, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School
