MD (1966), Specialization in Adult Psychiatry and Neurology (1974)

Prof. of Developmental Psychobiology (1993)

Research fellowships at Harvard Medical School (1971/2) and NICHD, Bethesda, MD (1985/6)

1976-1988 Research psychiatrist at the Max-Planck Institute for Psychiatry, Munich

1991 to 2005 head of the Munich Interdisciplinary Research and Intervention Program for Fussy Babies, Institute of Social Pediatrics and Youth Medicine, University of Munich

1993 Arnold-Lucius-Gesell Prize at the University of Munich (1993), together with my husband Hanuš Papoušek

Member of ISIS, SRCD, WAIMH, and founding member and first president (1996-2000) of the German-speaking Association for Infant Mental Health GAIMH.

 

 

My personal involvement with behavioral microanalysis began in the mid seventies when I joined my husband at the Max-Planck-Institute for twelve years of intense collaborative research with a major interest in preverbal parent-infant communication, vocal development, beginnings of musical development and play, infant-directed speech, and intuitive parenting. Behavioral observation, video- and audiorecordings of parent-infant interactions and microanalysis to the minute reciprocities of preverbal communication were center stage in our approach.

 

1991, after my husband’s retirement, I got a chance to establish a clinical program for infants and their families suffering from disorders of behavioral and emotional regulation and troubled parent-infant relationships. Again, behavioral analyses of video-recorded parent-infant interactions in a variety of interactional contexts played a key role in both diagnostic assessments and intervention. The program combines scientific and applied clinical approaches to preverbal regulatory disorders and other risks of infant mental health, including infant neglect and abuse, prenatal stress, maternal mental illness, attachment and relationship disorders.

 

Since 1993 the program includes an interdisciplinary training program for infant mental health professionals in video-supported interaction guidance and parent-infant-psychotherapy. Together with my husband, we received the Arnold-Lucius-Gesell Prize at the University of Munich (1993).

 

It was a great pleasure and a unique opportunity to have met Pascal Mangold at a time when he just started a first version of the INTERACT Program. Ever since that time we kept appreciating his friendship and support and his readiness to tailor his program to our scientific and clinical needs. 

 

Publications:

• More than 180 scientific articles and chapters in national and international journals and books.
• Papoušek, H., Jürgens, U., & Papoušek, M. (1992). Nonverbal vocal communication : Comparative and developmental approaches. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Papoušek., M. (1994): Vom ersten Schrei zum ersten Wort: Anfänge der Sprachentwicklung in der vorsprachlichen Kommunikation. Bern: Huber.
• Papoušek, M. und A. von Gontard (2003). Spiel und Kreativität in der frühen Kindheit. Stuttgart: Pfeiffer bei Klett-Cotta
• Papoušek, M., M Schieche und H. Wurmser (2004). Regulationsstörungen der frühen Kindheit: Frühe Risiken - frühe Hilfen. Bilanz aus 10 Jahren Münchner Sprechstunde für Schreibabys. Bern: Huber Verlag