{"product_id":"michael-balint-and-his-world-the-budapest-years-paperback","title":"Michael Balint and His World: The Budapest Years - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJudit Szekacs-Weisz\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eRaluca Soreanu\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eIvan Ward\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis fascinating collection explores the life of renowned psychoanalyst Michael Balint in his native Budapest. With a Balint revival in mind, \u003ci\u003eMichael Balint and his World: The Budapest Years \u003c\/i\u003ebrings together the work of psychoanalysts, social thinkers, historians, literary scholars, artists and medical doctors who draw on Balint's work in a variety of ways.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book focuses on Balint's early years in Budapest, where he worked with Sándor Ferenczi and a circle of colleagues, capturing the transformations of psychoanalytic thinking as it happens in a network of living relationships. Tracing creative disagreements as well as collaborations, and setting these exchanges in the climate of scientific, social and cultural developments of the time, \u003ci\u003eMichael Balint and his World: The Budapest Years \u003c\/i\u003efollows the development of psychoanalytic thinking during these critical times. The book recalls the story of several \"lost children\" of the Budapest School and reconstitutes Balint's important early contributions on primary love. It also examines his little-known relationship with Lacan, including the extended discussion of Balint's work by Wladimir Granoff in Lacan's first public seminar in Paris in 1954, published here for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis important book provides a fresh perspective on Balint's enormous contribution to the field of psychoanalysis and will interest both scholars and clinicians. It will also inspire those interested in clinical practice and the applications of psychoanalysis to the cultural sphere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJudit Szekacs-Weisz\u003c\/strong\u003e, PhD, is a bilingual psychoanalyst and psychotherapist. Born and educated (mostly) in Budapest, Hungary, she has taken in the way of thinking and ideas of Ferenczi, the Balints, Hermann and Rajka as an integral part of a \"professional mother tongue\". Living and working in a totalitarian world sensitised her to the social and individual aspects of trauma, identity formation and strategies of survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRaluca Soreanu \u003c\/strong\u003eis Professor of Psychoanalytic Studies in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, and psychoanalyst, member of the Círculo Psicanalítico do Rio de Janeiro. She is the project lead of \u003ci\u003eFREEPSY: Free Clinics and a Psychoanalysis for the People: Progressive Histories, Collective Practices, Implications for Our Times \u003c\/i\u003e(UKRI Frontier Research Grant).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIvan Ward \u003c\/strong\u003eis former Deputy Director and Head of Learning at the Freud Museum London, where he worked for 33 years. He is author of a number of books and papers on psychoanalytic theory and the applications of psychoanalysis to socio-cultural issues. He is an Honorary Research Fellow at UCL Psychoanalysis Unit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 184\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.44 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 01, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47598939439289,"sku":"9780367857776","price":90.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0686\/4309\/4713\/files\/BQj1HaJdZh9780367857776.webp?v=1781676265","url":"https:\/\/thoobo.com\/products\/michael-balint-and-his-world-the-budapest-years-paperback","provider":"Thoobo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}