ABSTRACT
John Bowlby seems English to the core. By contrast, Balint, the author we next draw on, is, like Hayek and many others, indeed like Sigmund and Anna Freud, among the many immigrants who made important contributions to their adopted country. Balint was, like Bowlby, a psycho-analyst with wider concerns. He worked with doctors in general practice who wished to further their understanding of people (1957); he was a philosopher with a special interest in linguistics; and he seems also to have enjoyed life outside the study or the consulting room – in Thrills and Regressions (1959) the attractions of the fairground play an instructive role.
