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]