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New beginning

Also known as NeubeginnÚjrakezdés

Michael Balint's term, from 1932–1934, for a phase that appears towards the end of a deep enough analysis: the patient, having partly regressed, starts again to seek simple, object-directed gratifications in the relation to the analyst, and from there finds new, less defended ways of loving. Balint saw it as one of the essential mechanisms of cure.

Introduced by: Michael Balint1935
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Michael Balint 1935 In his Lucerne congress paper of 1934, printed in 1935, Balint names the new beginning: towards the end of deep analyses patients again seek simple, pleasurable gratifications, all of them aimed at an object, and he counts this as an essential mechanism of cure.