Three principles of salience describe interaction structures in the first year of life. The
principles of ongoing regulations, disruption and repair, and heightened affective moments
are variations on the ways in which expectancies of social interactions are organized. The
term ongoing regulations captures the characteristic pattern of repeated interactions.
Disruption and repair describes a specific sequence broken out of the broad pattern. In
heightened affective moments, one dramatic moment stands out in time. Over the course of …

Beebe and Lachmann, over two decades of creative, inspired collaboration, have worked to
keep two domains firmly in view and firmly in tension and interdependence. Looking at the
subtle, nonverbal, vocal, and bodily dances of mother and child over unfolding time is one
domain. Tracking the presence and power of archaic and transforming patterns of relational
engagement in the analytic work with adults is the other domain. The trick, if you like, and
one that Beebe and Lachmann negotiate beautifully, is to see both the power of the …