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The author defines personality as the 'psychobiologically integrated unit which has developed and is developing during life'. Maturity is attained 'when the whole personality has reached a degree of organization which harmonizes the various strivings with integration of emotional and intellectual resources, utilizing the reality'. Certain aspects of the personality may fail to reach full organization or integration.
An attempt is made to point out the importance of the degree of organization of the personality in a genetic-dynamic approach to psychiatric problems. Thus in schizophrenia we encounter a disorganization of the personality with the appearance of features seen in the non-organized personality. On the other hand, a non-organized personality with an affective psychosis will show similar features which may be mistaken for disorganization, but which are actually due to immaturity.
Admitting that regression plays an important part in disorganization, the author feels, however, that the former cannot explain all the symptoms and that it may only be of secondary importance. Similarly that narcissism may also be only a part of disorganization. He adds that 'there is no