ABSTRACT
Born in 1896 in Hungary, Balint left in 1939, as it had become a place of considerable political unrest, and lecturing on psychoanalysis was almost impossible. Indeed, it was not unusual for the police to turn up at his seminars. So, Balint moved away from his homeland in search of a more peaceful environment. Michael Balint was one of the few great psychotherapists who was good at being married. Balint had been analysed in Hungary by Ferenczi, one of Freud's followers, whom he loved and admired, and he was inspired by Ferenczi's interest in regression to early infantile states of mind. Balint knew about the infant stages not only from his own childhood, but also through his thesis on individual differences in the way infants behave, for which he received a Master's degree from Manchester University in 1945. Jung was a well-balanced introvert living an exuberantly outgoing, extroverted-looking kind of life, while finding his primary source of stimulation inside himself.
