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An Interview with Michael Balint

An Interview with Michael Balint The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 62, No. 4, December 2002 ( 2002) Bluma Swerdloff This memoir is the result of a series of tape-recorded interviews con- ducted for the Columbia University Oral History Research Office by Dr. Bluma Swerdloff with Dr. Michael Balint in London, England, August 6–7, 1965. Dr. Balint has read the transcript, and has made only minor correc- tions and emendations. The reader is asked to bear in mind, therefore, that he is reading a transcript of the spoken rather than the written word. Bluma Swerdloff Q: Suppose we start with how you got into the field of psychoanalysis? What influences worked on you? MB: Well, you see, it’s a very long story. I read the first analytic writings, by Freud and Ferenczi, when I was still in—I don’t know what you call it in America—high school. Q: Gymnasium? MB: Gymnasium. I was always interested. But this was not in anything particular; I read everything that ever was written on painting—quite a few things, comparative religion, law, philosophy, history, archeology and heaven knows what,... Q: How did you manage to do that? What stimulated you, in your own background? MB: I think I just was http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Journal of Psychoanalysis Springer Journals

An Interview with Michael Balint

The American Journal of Psychoanalysis , Volume 62 (4) – Oct 18, 2004

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 2002 by Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
Subject
Psychology; Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis
ISSN
0002-9548
eISSN
1573-6741
DOI
10.1023/A:1021149017696
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Abstract

The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 62, No. 4, December 2002 ( 2002) Bluma Swerdloff This memoir is the result of a series of tape-recorded interviews con- ducted for the Columbia University Oral History Research Office by Dr. Bluma Swerdloff with Dr. Michael Balint in London, England, August 6–7, 1965. Dr. Balint has read the transcript, and has made only minor correc- tions and emendations. The reader is asked to bear in mind, therefore, that he is reading a transcript of the spoken rather than the written word. Bluma Swerdloff Q: Suppose we start with how you got into the field of psychoanalysis? What influences worked on you? MB: Well, you see, it’s a very long story. I read the first analytic writings, by Freud and Ferenczi, when I was still in—I don’t know what you call it in America—high school. Q: Gymnasium? MB: Gymnasium. I was always interested. But this was not in anything particular; I read everything that ever was written on painting—quite a few things, comparative religion, law, philosophy, history, archeology and heaven knows what,... Q: How did you manage to do that? What stimulated you, in your own background? MB: I think I just was

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Published: Oct 18, 2004

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