Person    | Male  Born 3/12/1896  Died 31/12/1970

Michael Balint

Categories: Medicine

Countries: Germany, Hungary

Psychoanalyst. Born Mihály Maurice Bergsmann in Budapest. He worked in Berlin before returning to Hungary. In the 1930s the political conditions forced him to move to Britain, settling in Manchester, where he became Clinical Director of the Child Guidance Clinic. He met and married Enid Eicholz, and together they developed what are now known as the Balint groups. These groups enable doctors to discuss patients for which they had previously felt ill-equipped.

See Enid's page for the Royal College of GP's take on the Balints.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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