13 Facts About Beatrice Beebe

Beatrice Beebe was born on June 8,1946 and is a clinical psychologist known for her research in attachment and early infant-parent communication.

Beatrice Beebe's work helped established the importance of non-verbal communication in early child development.

Beatrice Beebe attended graduate school at Columbia University, Teacher's College where she obtained a joint Ph.

Beatrice Beebe's dissertation examined the complex behaviors behind positive infant affect and how mothers interpreted their child's responsiveness.

Beatrice Beebe used frame-by-frame analysis of videotapes of mother-child dyads playing to collect this data, a research method she continues to use today.

Beatrice Beebe described this as "an early example of bidirectional influence" and evidence that the infant, along with the mother, is directly influencing the relationship.

In 2018, Beatrice Beebe received a research grant from the National Institute of Health to study how exposure to endocrine disrupting pollutants in utero alters mother-infant interaction and infant development.

Beatrice Beebe is conducting a 30-year follow up study that attempts to predict attachment style in young adulthood based on the research participant's attachment style from infancy.

Beatrice Beebe received a Certificate Specialization Psychotherapy - Psychoanalysis from New York University in 1986, and is a founding faculty member at the Institute for The Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity.

Beatrice Beebe is married to Edward McCrorie, a Professor Emeritus of English at Providence College.

Consistent with the concept of "good enough" mothering proposed by the Pediatrician and Psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott, Beatrice Beebe hypothesized that mid-range coordination between mother and infant was optimal because it left room for flexibility, variability, and inventiveness, all of which could lead to the type of playfulness that is critical to development.

In 1999, Beatrice Beebe received a research grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to analyze video from 132 mother-infant dyads.

Beatrice Beebe has co-written a number of influential books on parent-child interaction and attachment.