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DPS Conference: Infant Research and Adult Treatment with Beatrice Beebe, PhD
Denver Psychoanalytic Society Conference - Infant Research and Adult Treatment with Beatrice Beebe, PhD
Date/Time: May 7, 2022 from 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM (MDT)
Location: Wellshire Presbyterian Church Sanctuary, 2999 S. Colorado Blvd., Denver, CO 80222
Registration Link: https://www.denverpsychoanalytic.org/event-4694886
Description:
MORNING: THREE MODELS OF MOTHER-INFANT TRAUMA
The first model of mother-infant trauma is a treatment case; the second and third are based on research studies in community samples. (1) Case of Linda and Dan: Mother suicidal at birth; (2) Origins of disorganized attachment at 4 months (3) Pregnant and widowed on 9/11. All three have illustrative video material. For each model of mother-infant trauma, the audience will be led through an embodied interactive role-play of the patterns of interaction.
Current approaches to mother-infant treatment deal broadly with relational disturbance, but not specific patterns of interactive disturbance. Increased specificity in describing patterns of disturbance associated with different forms of mother-infant trauma can facilitate more focused clinical intervention, across a range of clinical settings.
Morning Learning Objectives (Participants will be able to:)
- Describe ways in which mother-infant research can inform mother-infant treatment.
- Describe two different pictures of mother-infant trauma.
AFTERNOON: VIDEO FEEDBACK THERAPY FOR A TRAUMATIZED PATIENT WHO DOES NOT LOOK
I present a case of a patient who does not look. She is in an ongoing 20+ year intensive treatment with Dr. Larry Sandberg, and I have collaborated as the video feedback therapist for over a decade (Sandberg & Beebe, 2020). My face, but not the patient’s face, is videotaped during psychotherapy sessions. The patient and I then review segments of the videotaped session, collaboratively observing and thinking together, translating between the verbal dialogue and the therapist’s implicit action dialogue. As Lyons-Ruth (1999) argued, much remains to be learned about the analyst’s collaborative participation as a new relational partner, and how implicit modes of intimate relating are transformed. The video provides a unique opportunity to learn about the therapist’s collaborative participation outside the verbal narrative. The therapist's face, as well as bodily gestures of head and hands, and the background vocal rhythm of the narrative, are relatively unexplored avenues of therapeutic action in adult treatment. We will discuss how this process helped this patient.
Afternoon Learning Objectives (Participants will be able to:)
- Explain the potential role of video for traumatized patients who cannot look directly into the face of another person.
- Describe how video feedback therapy can facilitate an understanding of both verbal and nonverbal communication in an adult treatment.
- Explain the role of video feedback therapy as an adjunct to an ongoing treatment.