PEP | Article - A Proposed Revision of the Psychoanalytic Concept of Primitive Mental States, Part II—The Borderline Syndrome-Section 1: Disorders of Autistic Safety and Symbiotic Relatedness

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Introduction

IN "PART I: INTRODUCTION TO A NEWER PSYCHOANALYTIC METAPSYCHOLOGY" (Grotstein, 1980), I sought to reformulate a newer

psychoanalytic metapsychology which could better reflect the recent changes in psychoanalytic emphasis from oedipal to pre-oedipal (primitive) states, one which could do justice to narcissistic, borderline, and psychotic disturbances on one hand, and neurotic disturbances on the other—to the final effect that all these di

PEP | Article - A Proposed Revision of the Psychoanalytic Concept of Primitive Mental States, Part II—The Borderline Syndrome-Section 1: Disorders of Autistic Safety and Symbiotic Relatedness - Grotstein, James S.