{"product_id":"michael-balint-and-his-world-9780367857776","title":"Michael Balint and his World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis fascinating collection explores the life of renowned psychoanalyst Michael Balint in his native Budapest. With a Balint revival in mind, \u003ci\u003eMichael Balint and his World: The Budapest Years \u003c\/i\u003ebrings together the work of psychoanalysts, social thinkers, historians, literary scholars, artists and medical doctors who draw on Balint's work in a variety of ways.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book focuses on Balint's early years in Budapest, where he worked with Sándor Ferenczi and a circle of colleagues, capturing the transformations of psychoanalytic thinking as it happens in a network of living relationships. Tracing creative disagreements as well as collaborations, and setting these exchanges in the climate of scientific, social and cultural developments of the time, \u003ci\u003eMichael Balint and his World: The Budapest Years \u003c\/i\u003efollows the development of psychoanalytic thinking during these critical times. The book recalls the story of several lost children of the Budapest School and reconstitutes Balint\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In this deliciously gripping book, the editors and chapter authors transport us on a highly readable and deeply enlightening tour of the often-forgotten contributions of the creative and bold pioneers of psychoanalysis in Hungary, not least the achievements of Michael Balint and his first wife, Alice Balint. Beautifully researched, incorporating much previously unpublished data, this groundbreaking volume offers not only extensive historical wisdom but, also, reminds us of the ways in which the work of Balint and his Budapest colleagues can enhance contemporary psychoanalysis.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProfessor Brett Kahr\u003c\/strong\u003e, Senior Fellow, Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology, London, and Visiting Professor of Psychoanalysis and Mental Health at Regent’s University London, and Honorary Director of Research, Freud Museum London\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In a period when the idea of 'correct technique' was becoming crystallized around language, Michael Balint explored the 'gulf between patient and analyst' like no other, taking care to acknowledge the fractured balance between the individual and the environment, while teaching us the importance of becoming 'unsolid'. Nowadays we are, perhaps, more ready to appreciate the sensitive, profound, and elegant way he rethought the basic grammar of the analytic experience. This collection of essays and original documents on \u003ci\u003eMichael Balint and his World\u003c\/i\u003e, illuminates a variety of less known aspects of \u003ci\u003eThe Budapest Years\u003c\/i\u003e. It is an engaging invitation to revive his inspiring legacy. I strongly recommend it.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarlo Bonomi\u003c\/b\u003e, Ph.D., training and supervising analyst of the Società Italiana di Psicoanalisi Sándor Ferenczi, president of the International Sándor Ferenczi Network (ISFN), associate editor of the\u003ci\u003e International Forum of Psychoanalysis\u003c\/i\u003e, and Founding President of the Sandor Ferenczi Cultural Association\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I hear with pleasure and emotion that the book about Balint and the Hungarian analytic society will soon be available. The list of contributors is impressive. Much thanks to them.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJudith Dupont\u003c\/b\u003e, psychoanalyst, translator, author and editor, member of the French Psychoanalytical Society, founder of the psychoanalytic journal \u003ci\u003eLe Coq-héron\u003c\/i\u003e, and literary executor for Michael Balint\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSeries Editor's Foreword Acknowledgements Contributor Affiliations Editor's Note Chronology of\u003c\/em\u003e MichaelBálint’s \u003cem\u003elife \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart 1: Budapest Trails \u003c\/strong\u003e1. A Brief Introduction to the Balints and Their World: Object Relations and Beyond 2. Michael Bálint, his world and his Oeuvre 2a. André Haynal: In Memorium 3. The Problems of Education and Society in the Budapest School of Psychoanalysis 3a. Ferenc Erős: In Memorium 4. \"I look into a room through a round gap.\" Alice Bálint's Life, Work and Diaries \u003cstrong\u003ePart 2: Creativity and Primary Love \u003c\/strong\u003e5. Therapy, Object Relations and Primary Narcissism: Metapsychology in the Early Works of Michael Bálint 6. Primary Harmony: Baby Observationon Infantile Hopes and Quiet States 7. Human Links 8. Michael Bálint and the Budapest School of Psychoanalysis on the Importance of Creativity \u003cstrong\u003ePart 3: Lost Children of Psychoanalysis \u003c\/strong\u003e9. Lost Children of the Recent History of Psychoanalysis: Tibor Rajka MD, 1901-1980 10. Remembering Dr István Székács-Schönberger 11. My Debt to Michael Bálint \u003cstrong\u003ePart 4: Links Rediscovered \u003c\/strong\u003e12. Introduction to Wladimir Granoff's Presentation on Balint at Lacan's Seminar 13. Presentation on Balint at Lacan's Seminar \u003cem\u003eFreud's Papers on Technique\u003c\/em\u003e, 26 May 1954 14. Lacan's Balint: Synergies and Discords in a Professional Friendship Author Biographies\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018079895895,"sku":"9780367857776","price":28.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780367857776.jpg?v=1750775565","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/michael-balint-and-his-world-9780367857776","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}