Michael Balint

Michael Balint
Born	Mihály Mór Bergsmann (1896-12-03)3 December 1896 Budapest, Austria-Hungary
Died	31 December 1970(1970-12-31) (aged 77) London, England
Occupation	Psychoanalyst
Movement	Object relations theory
Spouses	Alice Székely-Kovács (died 1939) Enid Flora Eichholz (m. 1958)
Children	John A. Balint (1925-2016)

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Concepts Psychosexual development Psychosocial development (Erikson) Unconscious Preconscious Consciousness Psychic apparatus Id, ego and superego Ego defenses Projection Introjection Libido Drive Transference Countertransference Resistance Denial Dreamwork Cathexis
Important figures Core psychoanalysts Abraham Adler Balint Bion Breuer Erikson Fairbairn Ferenczi Freud (Anna) Freud (Sigmund) Fromm Guattari Horney Jacobson Jones Jung Kohut Klein Lacan Laing Laplanche Mahler Rank Reich Spielrein Stekel Strachey Sullivan Winnicott Influential figures applying psychoanalysis Chodorow Kristeva Irigaray Žižek
Important works Core psychoanalytic texts The Interpretation of Dreams (1899) The Psychopathology of Everyday Life (1901) Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905) Psychology of the Unconscious (1912) Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920) The Ego and the Id (1923) Civilization and Its Discontents (1930) The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933) The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis (1964) Influential works applying psychoanalysis Anti-Oedipus (1972) The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989)
Schools of thought Adlerian Ego psychology Jungian Lacanian Interpersonal Intersubjective Marxist Object relations Reichian Relational Self psychology
Training Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis British Psychoanalytic Council British Psychoanalytical Society Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research International Psychoanalytical Association World Association of Psychoanalysis List of schools of psychoanalysis
See also Child psychoanalysis Depth psychology Psychodynamics Psychoanalytic theory
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Memorial plaque for Balint at Monte Verità in Ticino, Switzerland

Michael Balint (Hungarian: Mihály Bálint [ˈmihaːj ˈbaːlint]; 3 December 1896 – 31 December 1970) was a Hungarian psychoanalyst who spent most of his adult life in England. He was a proponent of the object relations school.