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On Child Psychosis and Schizophrenia: Autistic and Symbiotic Infantile Psychoses
What it shows
- 1952
Margaret Mahler introduced Symbiotic psychosis
In her 1952 paper on child psychosis Mahler set the symbiotic psychoses of early childhood apart from the autistic ones. She later grounded the distinction in the normal autistic and symbiotic phases.