Relational psychophysiology: lessons from mother-infant physiology research on dyadically expanded states of consciousness.
Psychotherapy research : journal of the Society for Psychotherapy Research November 2009 Jacob Ham, Ed Tronick
The authors illustrate how their work on mother-infant "relational psychophysiology" might inform psychotherapy research. They examined psychophysiology in 18 mother-infant dyads (infants' age: 5 months) during normal interaction and a still-face perturbation. They measured respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) as an index of emotion regulation and explored whether skin conductance (SC)...