ABSTRACT
The direct observations of attachment theory at a clinical level should be integrated with the more minute direct observations of infant research. In a book, Infant Research and Adult Treatment, B. Beebe and F. M. Lachmann present many data of clinical interest: for example, on children of depressed mothers. The two authors reviewed the case in the light of infant research and attachment theory. The authors follow a systemic model. Since 1994, infant researchers like D. B. Stern, L. W. Sander, and E. Tronick have joined with others to form the Boston Change Process Study Group. In the Preface, C. Stern describes his theoretical approach. Stern aims at creating “a dialogue between the infant as revealed by the experimental approach and as clinically reconstructed”. “Infants are seen as having a very active memorial and fantasy life, but they are concerned with events that actually happen”. The infant responds to qualities of experience such as shape, intensity, and temporal pattern.
