Clinical Conference: Beatrice Beebe, PhD: How Can We See What We Don't See? Infant Research and Adult Treatment (05 Dec 2026)

Sat, 05 Dec 2026 18:00:00 GMT

The Connecticut Society For Psychoanalytic Psychology

presents

Beatrice Beebe, PhD:

How Can We See

What We Don't See?

Infant Research and Adult Treatment

Clinical Conference

Saturday, December 5, 2026

Conference Check-In: 12:45pm (not CE Eligible)

Main Conference: 1pm-4pm (CE Eligible)

3 CE credits available

NASW/CT Continuing Education Credit Hours: Approval Pending

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Conference Location

Albertus Magnus College,

Behan Community Room, New Haven, CT

Directions and Photo

Map of Albertus Magnus College

(In person only)

The Talk

Face-to-face communication is too fast to fully capture with the naked eye. Video microanalysis slows down this powerful, largely out-of-awareness, moment-to-moment process and allows participants to see subtle, split second, complex patterns of relating that cannot otherwise be readily grasped. The program illustrates infant research through examples involving a gaze-avoidant infant and the origins of secure and disorganized infant attachment. It then applies the same microanalytic approach to adult treatment through examination of the first 30 seconds of an adult treatment session on Zoom.

Learning Objectives

As a result of this presentation, attendees will:

1. After this session, participants will be able to describe an example of split second coordination not visible to the naked eye in one mother-infant interaction.

2. After this session, participants will be able to describe an example of split second coordination not visible to the naked eye in one adult treatment session on Zoom.

3. After this session, participants will be able to describe an example of how microanalysis of the first 30 seconds of the session helped one therapist understand treatment themes that were sensed but not previously verbalizable.

Meet the Speaker

Beatrice Beebe, Ph.D., is a developmental/clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst, and Clinical Professor of Psychology (in Psychiatry) at Columbia University Medical Center/New York State Psychiatric Institute. Her research program has focused for four decades on video and audio microanalysis of mother-infant face-to-face communication, including dyadic regulation, attachment, and the effects of maternal depression and anxiety. Her work has used microanalysis as a “social microscope” to identify patterns of contingent relating, and she has extended this perspective to clinical treatment and video-feedback work. These experiences directly support the program’s focus on split-second coordination in infant interaction and adult treatment.

Recommended Readings

Beebe, B., & Lachmann, F. (2020). Infant research and adult treatment revisited: Co-creating self- and interactive regulation. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 37, 313–323. https://doi.org/10.1037/pap0000305

Beebe, B., Messinger, D., Bahrick, L. E., Margolis, A., Buck, K. A., & Chen, H. (2016). A systems view of mother–infant face-to-face communication. Developmental Psychology, 52(4), 556-571. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0040085

Houghton, R., & Beebe, B. (2016). Dance movement therapy: Learning to look through video microanalysis. American Journal of Dance Therapy, 38(2), 334–357. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10465-016-9226-0

Sandberg, L., & Beebe, B. (2020). A patient who does not look: A collaborative treatment with video feedback. Psychoanalytic Dialogues, 30, 479–498.

Participants

The conference is appropriate for professionals interested in the practice of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The instructional level of this conference is intermediate.

Continuing Education Credits

If continuing education credit is desired, please mark the appropriate box on the registration page, for our records. If continuing education credit is approved, 100% attendance and completion of the program evaluation will be required to receive continuing education credit.

No partial credit is available; you must be present for the duration of the program. There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for programs or instructors. AI was utilized to assist in the formatting of promotional materials.

The Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology (SPPP) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. SPPP maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

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Program Questions

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