Three types of infantile neurosis are proposed as the possible variants of early childhood development. The argument is that Freud's concept of infantile neurosis connotes an intrapsychic structure that is the achievement of a satisfactory early development in the child. This argument implies by definition that the achievement is dependent upon and preconditioned by a complexity of factors that belong to developmental and maturational processes and their facilitation as well as realization by environmental provisions in the early stages of an infant's and child's growth. The classical analytic technique has largely concerned itself with the cases where infantile neurosis is given intrapsychic achievement. Today research into early mother-child relationship

and a deeper understanding of the role of the analytic situation enable us to treat cases where early disturbances have interfered with the intrapsychic crystallization of infantile neurosis and have led to a false-self organization.