IPA Journal Club
Friday, June 12, (16:00 -17:15 London time) (11:00 AM – 12:15 PM Eastern US Time)
Guest: Beatrice Beebe,PhD
You can register for the June IPA Journal Club here
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The IPA Journal Club (JC) is a project of the IPA Communications Committee. It meets 6 times per academic year (September-June) on Fridays at 4 PM (16:00-17:15) London time [11:00 AM – 12:15 PM US Eastern Time] for 75 minutes.
Each meeting, in webinar format, is in English and features a guest author who discusses with registrants an article or chapter they have published. The meetings are recorded and later posted online for viewing by the general public.
The JC’s next meeting, featuring Beatrice Beebe, PhD, will be on Friday, June 12th, 2026, at 4 p.m. London time, 11 a.m. US Eastern Time.
Registration, which is free of charge, is open to IPA members and candidates, other interested mental health professionals, scholars and academics. A downloadable copy of the paper is available to registrants.
Ideally, all registrants will have viewed Dr. Beebe’s video on YouTube and read selections from her book beforehand and have an opportunity to ask questions or make comments to her. At the registration site, you can also submit questions to the moderators to share with her.
Video to be Viewed:
“Joining Your Baby’s Distress Moments: A Story of One Mother and Infant”
This 15-minute video dives into the findings of how infants have an extraordinary nonverbal language and are social from birth. It illustrates the benefits of educational viewings of mother-infant interaction to help parents better understand their babies' communication.
Reading:
“The Mother-Infant Interaction Picture Book: Origins of Attachment”
The Journal Club would like to thank the publisher, WW Norton for granting complimentary access to portions of the book to our registrants.
You can register for the June IPA Journal Club
here.
View Dr. Beebe’s video,
here.
Access and read excerpts from Dr. Beebe’s book
here.
Bio
Beatrice Beebe, PhD, is Clinical Professor of Psychology (in Psychiatry), College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University Medical Center, New York State Psychiatric Institute. She is an infant researcher and a psychoanalyst, known for video microanalysis of mother-infant interaction and its implications for infant and adult treatment. Her frame-by-frame video microanalyses provide a “social microscope” that reveals subtle details of interactions too rapid to grasp in real time with the naked eye. Her research investigates early mother-infant face-to-face communication: the effects of maternal distress (depression, anxiety, trauma of being pregnant and widowed on 9/11), the prediction of infant attachment patterns, and the long-term continuity of communication from infancy to adulthood. More than 150 students have been trained in her research laboratory over the last three decades. Her recent book is:
The Mother-Infant Interaction Picture Book: Origins of Attachment (Beebe, Cohen & Lachman, Norton, 2016). She has a YouTube account:
http://youtube.com/@dr.beatricebeebe8658. Her new research direction, with Julie Herbstman, is the association of prenatal environmental toxins with 4-month mother-infant interaction. She is Multi-PI, with Julie Herbstman, R01ES027424-01A1, of Prenatal endocrine-disrupting chemicals and social/cognitive risk in mothers and infants: Potential biologic pathways.
The moderators of the Journal Club are Jack Drescher, MD & Christopher G. Walling, PsyD
Jack Drescher, MD, a member of IPA’s Communications Committee, is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in New York City. A recipient of the 2022 Mary S. Sigourney Award for his international work on gender and sexuality, Dr. Drescher is on the faculties of the William Alanson White Institute, the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and the Florida Psychoanalytic Center. He is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia and a member of the Board of Trustees of the WA White Institute. He is an elected Director-at-Large of the American Psychoanalytic Association. His publications have been translated into numerous languages. He is author of
Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Gay Man (Routledge) and Emeritus Editor of the
Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health.
Christopher G. Walling, Psy.D., MBA, FIPA, is Associate Professor and Chair of Research Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies, Faculty Chair of Adult Psychoanalytic Training at the New Center for Psychoanalysis, and a licensed clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst. Dr. Walling is a Clinical Research Fellow and International Advisory Council member at Indiana University’s Kinsey Institute, serves on the American Psychoanalytic Association’s Committee on Gender & Sexuality, and is past president of the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy. His work appears in American Psychological Association’s Journal, Psychotherapy and the International Body Psychotherapy Journal. Recent honors include the 2026 Ernst & Gertrude Ticho Award and being named the 2024 Gina Ogden Scholarship prize in Integrative Sex Therapy Research. He maintains a private practice in Brentwood, California.
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