Alice Balint

Balint's mother, Vilma Kovács, had also been a psychoanalyst.{{Cite book|last=Meszaros|first=Judit|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p0VaDwAAQBAJ&q=alice+balint+Ferenczi&pg=PA146|title=Ferenczi and Beyond: Exile of the Budapest School and Solidarity in the Psychoanalytic Movement During the Nazi Years|date=2018-05-08|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-429-89947-8|pages=146|language=en}} Balint was also a childhood friend of Margaret Mahler.{{Cite book|last1=Edward|first1=Joyce|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NgApGfbRJiIC&q=alice+balint+Ferenczi&pg=PA307|title=Separation/individuation: Theory and Application|last2=Ruskin|first2=Nathene|last3=Turrini|first3=Patsy|date=1992|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0-87630-697-0|pages=307|language=en}}

She married Michael Balint, also a psychoanalyst, in 1920.{{Cite book|last=Rachman|first=Arnold WM|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VLVTDAAAQBAJ&q=%22alice+balint%22+1939&pg=PA140|title=The Budapest School of Psychoanalysis: The Origin of a Two-Person Psychology and Emphatic Perspective|date=2016-06-10|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-24456-1|language=en}} The two soon moved from Hungary to Berlin.{{Cite journal|last=Lakasing|first=Edin|date=2005-09-01|title=Michael Balint — an outstanding medical life|journal=The British Journal of General Practice|volume=55|issue=518|pages=724–725|issn=0960-1643|pmc=1464079|pmid=16176748}} However, they returned to Budapest in 1924, and lived at No.12 Mészáros Street, five floors above the Hungarian Psychoanalytical Society's Polyclinic, which opened in 1931.{{Cite book|last=Meszaros|first=Judit|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p0VaDwAAQBAJ&q=alice+balint+Ferenczi&pg=PA143|title=Ferenczi and Beyond: Exile of the Budapest School and Solidarity in the Psychoanalytic Movement During the Nazi Years|date=2018-05-08|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-429-89947-8|language=en}}

Balint wrote the book The Psychoanalysis of the Nursery,{{Cite book|last=Balint|first=Alice|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J6bhCgAAQBAJ&q=%22alice+balint%22+1939|title=The Psycho-Analysis of the Nursery|date=2015-11-06|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-37392-6|language=en}} which was first published in Hungarian in 1931, and later in German, Spanish, French, and English. Balint planned to translate it into English herself, but died before being able to. It was published in English in 1953.

Balint, her husband, and their son moved to Manchester in 1939, as did many other Hungarian psychoanalysts who were anxious about World War II.{{Cite book|last=Meszaros|first=Judit|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p0VaDwAAQBAJ&q=alice+balint+Ferenczi&pg=PR14|title=Ferenczi and Beyond: Exile of the Budapest School and Solidarity in the Psychoanalytic Movement During the Nazi Years|date=2018-05-08|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-429-89947-8|pages=xiv|language=en}}{{Cite journal|last=Mészáros|first=Judit|date=2017|title=The saga of psychoanalysis in Eastern Europe: repression and rebirth in Hungary, and in former Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia|journal=História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos|volume=24|issue=suppl 1|pages=91–103|doi=10.1590/s0104-59702017000400007|pmid=29236810|issn=1678-4758|doi-access=free}} Balint died later that year of a ruptured aortic aneurysm.{{Cite book|last=Borgos|first=Anna|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6jEzEAAAQBAJ&q=%22alice+balint%22+1939&pg=PT135|title=Women in the Budapest School of Psychoanalysis: Girls of Tomorrow|date=2021-07-29|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-000-41343-4|language=en}}{{Cite book|last1=Sulz|first1=Serge|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=buhLBgAAQBAJ&q=geza+roheim+balint&pg=PA29|title=European Psychotherapy 2014/2015: Austria: Home of the World's Psychotherapy|last2=Hagspiel|first2=Stefan|date=2015-02-18|publisher=BoD – Books on Demand|isbn=978-3-7347-5118-9|pages=29|language=en}} She and her husband left behind one son, John A. Balint (1925–2016).{{Cite web|title=Obituary of Dr. John A. Balint {{!}} Applebee Funeral Home|url=https://applebeefuneralhome.com/tribute/details/606/Dr-John-Balint/obituary.html|access-date=2021-09-07|website=applebeefuneralhome.com|language=en-US}}

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