Coconstructing Mother–Infant Distress: The Microsynchrony of Maternal Impingement and Infant Avoidance in the Face-to-Face Encounter

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The effects of early relational trauma on right brain development, affect regulation, and infant mental health. (2001, background): “, 1989), imprint an abnormal limbic circuitry (Benes, 1994), and produce permanent functional impairments of the directing of emotion into adaptive channels (DeKosky, Nonneman, & Scheff, 1982).”
When Words Just Won’t Do: Introducing Parental Embodied Mentalizing (2011, unknown): “…& Keltner, 2009), something perhaps most evident in work on face-to-face interaction (e.g., Beebe, 2000; Gergely & Watson, 1996), parent–infant gaze (e.g., Jaffe & Feldstein, 1970; Kaye & Fogel, 1980), and rhythmical and musical features of vocal sounds (Beebe et al., 2000; Malloch, 1999).”
Advances in Neuropsychoanalysis, Attachment Theory, and Trauma Research: Implications for Self Psychology (2002, background): “Beebe (2000) describes an episode of “mutually escalating overarousal” of a disorganized attachment pair: Each one escalates the ante, as the infant builds to a frantic distress, may scream, and, in this example, finally throws up.”
Brief mother–infant treatment: Psychoanalytically informed video feedback (2003, background): “An extreme form of “mutually escalating overarousal,” where each partner re- 32 ● B. Beebe short standard top of rh base of rh cap height base of textsponded to the other’s distress with a reciprocal escalation, each “topping” the other, until the infant vomited, was described by Beebe (2000).”