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Miriam Steele, PhD, is a professor of psychology at the New School for Social Research where she co-directs (with Prof. Howard Steele) the Center for Attachment Research. Dr. Miriam Steele is also a psychoanalyst trained at the Anna Freud Center.  Miriam initiated the London Parent-Child Project, a major longitudinal study of intergenerational patterns of attachment whose findings included the development of the Reflective Functioning concept and manual.  Dr. M. Steele also conducted longitudinal research on attachment in the context of child maltreatment and adoption. Miriam, with Anne Murphy and Howard Steele, pioneered the development and implementation of Group Attachment-Based Intervention (GABI) aimed at preventing child maltreatment and promoting secure attachment between child and parent.

Both Howard Steele and Miriam Steele are among the 2017 Bowlby-Ainsworth awardees so recognized by the Center for Mental Health Promotion.   H. Steele and M. Steele are co-editors of the 2008 book Clinical Applications of the Adult Attachment Interview, and the 2018 Handbook of Attachment-Based Interventions, both published by Guilford Press, New York.  The Steele's are members of the Adult Attachment Interview Trainers' Consortium.