ABSTRACT
Michael Balint (1896–1970) was a British psychoanalyst of Hungarian origin, physician (MD Budapest, 1920), doctor of science (Berlin, 1924), psychiatrist (Budapest, 1930), psychologist (Manchester, 1945), president of the British Psychoanalytical Society (1968–1970). A psychoanalyst of the third generation, he was trained both in Berlin and Budapest. He was an analysand, colleague, and faithful friend of Ferenczi, and also his literary executor and his “successor” in analytic theory and practice. I will trace the legacy Balint received from Ferenczi and developed in his own way (Moreau Ricaud, 2000).
