ABSTRACT
The New Beginning was used by Balint to designate an action or state that may possibly occur within the framework of a deep, benign regression seeking understanding. Balint saw the New Beginning as connected with the overcoming or healing-over of the so-called basic fault. This chapter describes interventions whose primary goal is to make sure that an analysand's New Beginning is not hampered or blocked but which, rather, allow him the freedom to start out. Interpretation must not be omitted, because it remains true that in the final analysis "Perhaps the most important form of response is indeed interpretation", a statement in line with Sigmund Freud's view. There is no freedom in the analyst's feeling and thinking as long as he enters into the attitude of defence with the analysand in a projective identification with parts of the other's self.
