Alice Balint

Alice Balint (born Alice Székely-Kovács; 1898–1939)^[1] was a Hungarian psychoanalyst.

Alice Balint
Alice Bálint in Manchester, England (1939)
Born	1898 (1898)
Died	1939 (aged 40–41)
Spouse	Michael Balint ​ (m. 1920)​

Early life

Balint's mother, Vilma Kovács, had also been a psychoanalyst.^[2] Balint was also a childhood friend of Margaret Mahler.^[3]

She married Michael Balint, also a psychoanalyst, in 1920.^[4] The two soon moved from Hungary to Berlin.^[5] However, they returned to Budapest in 1924, and lived at No.12 Mészáros Street, five floors above the Hungarian Psychoanalytical Society's Polyclinic, which opened in 1931.^[5][6]

Career

Balint wrote the book The Psychoanalysis of the Nursery,^[7] which was first published in Hungarian in 1931, and later in German, Spanish, French, and English.^[5] Balint planned to translate it into English herself, but died before being able to. It was published in English in 1953.^[5]

Balint, her husband, and their son moved to Manchester in 1939, as did many other Hungarian psychoanalysts who were anxious about World War II.^[5][8][9] Balint died later that year of a ruptured aortic aneurysm.^[10][5][11] She and her husband left behind one son, John A. Balint (1925–2016).^[12]

References

1. "Balint-Székely-Kovács, Alice (1898–1939)". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 7 September 2021.
2. Meszaros, Judit (8 May 2018). Ferenczi and Beyond: Exile of the Budapest School and Solidarity in the Psychoanalytic Movement During the Nazi Years. Routledge. p. 146. ISBN 978-0-429-89947-8.
3. Edward, Joyce; Ruskin, Nathene; Turrini, Patsy (1992). Separation/individuation: Theory and Application. Psychology Press. p. 307. ISBN 978-0-87630-697-0.
4. Rachman, Arnold WM (10 June 2016). The Budapest School of Psychoanalysis: The Origin of a Two-Person Psychology and Emphatic Perspective. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-24456-1.
5. Lakasing, Edin (1 September 2005). "Michael Balint — an outstanding medical life". The British Journal of General Practice. 55 (518): 724–725. ISSN 0960-1643. PMC 1464079. PMID 16176748.
6. Meszaros, Judit (8 May 2018). Ferenczi and Beyond: Exile of the Budapest School and Solidarity in the Psychoanalytic Movement During the Nazi Years. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-429-89947-8.
7. Balint, Alice (6 November 2015). The Psycho-Analysis of the Nursery. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-37392-6.
8. Meszaros, Judit (8 May 2018). Ferenczi and Beyond: Exile of the Budapest School and Solidarity in the Psychoanalytic Movement During the Nazi Years. Routledge. pp. xiv. ISBN 978-0-429-89947-8.
9. Mészáros, Judit (2017). "The saga of psychoanalysis in Eastern Europe: repression and rebirth in Hungary, and in former Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia". História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos. 24 (suppl 1): 91–103. doi:10.1590/s0104-59702017000400007. ISSN 1678-4758. PMID 29236810.
10. Borgos, Anna (29 July 2021). Women in the Budapest School of Psychoanalysis: Girls of Tomorrow. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-000-41343-4.
11. Sulz, Serge; Hagspiel, Stefan (18 February 2015). European Psychotherapy 2014/2015: Austria: Home of the World's Psychotherapy. BoD – Books on Demand. p. 29. ISBN 978-3-7347-5118-9.
12. "Obituary of Dr. John A. Balint | Applebee Funeral Home". applebeefuneralhome.com. Retrieved 7 September 2021.