Early Interaction and Developmental Psychopathology (PDF)

Gisèle Apter has a dual background in psychiatry and psychopathology. She is a researcher in psychopathology and perinatal psychiatry at the Paris 7 Denis Diderot University. Specialized in children's psychiatry and perinatality, she belongs to the editorial board of the journal Enfances et Psy (published by Erès), L'Information Psychiatrique (published by John Libbey-Eurotext) and the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease ( Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins). She is responsible for the functional units of the EPS Erasme Hospital: PPUMMA (Perinatal Mobile Emergency Psychiatry in Maternity), 7th inter-sector in Hauts-de-Seine) and RePPEr (Research in Psychiatry and Psychopathology in Erasmus). It organizes the RIME network (research on mother-baby interactions), research body between Paris Descartes-Paris Diderot (Paris-Cités PRES) and Paris Ouest Nanterre.

Emmanuel Devouche is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychology at the University Paris Descartesand a researcher at the Laboratoire de Psychopathologie et Processus de Santé. For over two decades, he has conducted studies on parent-infant interaction during the first year of life. Currently he is investigating early communication between the mother and/or father and their newborn, up until three 3 months of age. He is also conducting a study on very early communication between preterm infants and their mother during skin-to-skin care in a level III NICU, from birth until 3 months of corrected age. He has authored or co-authored over 70 peer-reviewed journal articles in his area of expertise i.e. early parent-infant communication and at-risk interactions.

Maya Gratier is Professor of Developmental Psychology at the Université Paris Nanterre where she conducts research on the development of preverbal communication. She has a background in cross-cultural Clinical Psychology and Music Psychology. She also has a special interest in Developemental Psychopathology and, with Gisèle Apter and