therapist’s speech and the attachment indicators in the mother-baby dyad (Pearson correlation). Moments of productive speech between mother and therapist were not always moments of activation of the non-verbal indicators between mother and baby. These results showed the independence of the 2 levels: therapeutic discourse, and the non-verbal exchanges between mother and baby. Patterns of mother-baby interaction for each dyad were found using Box & Jenkins times series analysis. The interchanges that are repeated during the interpersonal communications and can be conceptualized as patterns of interaction –automatic procedures of how to relate with others and the world. These patterns constitute ways of organizing experience; schemes to coordinate affects, ideas, actions, which together with fantasies activate our unconscious processes. The relevance of these patterns for psychotherapy roots in that they are the ports of entry to therapeutic action, to “moments of meeting” that constitute the way to change the mental organization at a procedural level. One year old cases were analyzed in depth at empirical and clinical levels. The authors found that each dyad has a particular and unique pattern of interaction. @)15-1.*$#! In interpreting the present results, several limitations to this study should be considered. One of the problems of this study is the limited number of cases. Nevertheless, for many of the sub-studies performed the sampling frame was the number of blocks of 150 words. This design enabled the study of the relationship between verbal and non-verbal measures but didn’t permit the study of the reasons for the changes that take place during the psychotherapeutic process. Overall, the study has several strengths. First, the data showed that this model of psychotherapeutic intervention had a positive impact on the attachment indicators as measured by Massie and Campbell. Second, moments of productivity in the verbal exchange between the mother and the therapist are not necessarily moments of activation of non-verbal attachment indicators between the mother and the baby. These results may have practical implications for therapeutic interventions. In order to improve the mother’s attachment to the baby these interventions should stimulate her to gaze, to vocalize and to touch the baby and also to avoid using abstract words as a means of communicating with the baby. G$#.1/.\!
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