[Some findings in infant observation and the new developmental psychology]

In psychoanalytic nosology certain disorders, especially the so-called "early pathologies" or "preoedipal disorders", are labeled in terms of traditional psychoanalytic developmental psychology. The implications of this terminology served as a starting point for the development of special psychotherapeutic approaches, which are modifications of the psychoanalytical standard technique. In the light of the results of infant observation and of recent developmental psychology some of the concepts of psychoanalytic developmental psychology need to be revised, especially those of "normal autism", the "undifferentiated selfobject matrix" and the assumptions concerning the relationship between primary process and secondary process.