Person
Enid Balint
British psychoanalyst and social worker who founded the Family Discussion Bureau, a casework service for couples, and married Michael Balint in 1953. With him she developed the training groups in which general practitioners discuss their patients under an analyst's guidance, and she co-wrote their book on psychotherapeutic techniques in medicine (1961).
Ideas
- 1961 developed Balint group
Enid Balint worked with Michael Balint on the general-practitioner groups from their beginnings, co-wrote their account of psychotherapy in medical practice, and carried the method on after his death.
Influence
Affinity
- 1950 collaborated with Michael Balint
In London, Balint took up again his project of putting psychoanalysis at the service of general practitioners, now with Enid Balint, whom he later married. They co-wrote Psychotherapeutic Techniques in Medicine (1961).