Michael Balint

Michael Balint ( born December 3, 1896 in Budapest as Mihály Maurice Bergmann; † 31 December 1970, London) was a Hungarian psychoanalyst.

Life

Balint studied medicine in Budapest. He went in 1920 to Berlin, where he began his psychoanalytic training with Hanns Sachs. In 1924 he returned to Budapest, where he continued his psychoanalytic training with Sándor Ferenczi. Later, he also acted as editor of his writings. Since 1926 he was admitted as a training analyst at the Psychoanalytic Institute in Budapest. In 1929 he published a work on psychoanalysis and clinical medicine, which made ​​him one of the pioneers of psychosomatic medicine.

In 1939 Balint to England, first to Manchester and later to London. In 1947 he began work at the Tavistock Clinic, where he started together with his future wife Enid Balint, his research at the Family Discussion Bureau. He was elected president of the British Psychoanalytical Society in 1968.

Scientific topics

Balint's primary interest was the effect of the early childhood experience, the early mother -child relationship and the development of new therapeutic techniques (eg, focal therapy ).

He became deeply involved with the influence of unconscious fantasies of the physician to the patient. He pointed out that psychological complexes can be transferred unthinkingly by the physician on the patient and significantly influence as both the attitude towards the patient and therapeutic decisions. In 1950 the first seminar for general practitioners took place, a case discussion group in which it came to the discussion of the occurring in general medical practice psychological dynamics. As so-called Balint these seminars have now found worldwide distribution. Before him Wilhelm daughter husband had dealt with the " doctor as medicine ".

In fear and lust regression ( Original:. Thrills and Regressions London 1959) Balint has shown the dynamics of the autonomy - dependency conflict deepened. By introducing the concept pair Oknophilie and Philobatismus he enriched the understanding of the psychological basis of the conflict intrapsychic dynamics sustainable.

Works

  • The doctor, his patient and the illness (1966 ), Stuttgart: Klett - Cotta, 10th edition 2001, ISBN 3-608-94003-0. Original: The doctor, his patient and the illness, 1957
  • Fear lust and regression, Klett-Cotta (1999), ISBN 3-608-95635-2 ( Original: Thrills and Regressions London 1959 ISBN 978-0-8236-6540-2. . )
  • Therapeutic aspects of regression. The theory of ground disturbance. New edition, from d Engl by Kate Hill, 3rd edition 2003, ISBN 978-3-608-91912-7

Secondary literature

  • André Haynal: The technology debate in psychoanalysis. Freud, Ferenczi, Balint. ( Mind and psyche ). Fischer TB. -Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1989.
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