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In these pages The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 62, No. 4, December 2002 ( 2002) This second volume of the three special Balint issues planned by the American Journal of Psychoanalysis includes two parts: the first part deals with Michael Balint’s “training cum research” work with general practicion- ers; the second concerns more closely Michael Balint’s personality and is illustrated by some pictures. Michael Balint’s father—with whom he always had a difficult relation- ship—was a general practitioner, so Balint had plenty of reasons to be espe- cially interested in the relationship a general practicioner would be able to create with his patients (or children). He first attempted to approach this problem in the early 1920s at the Berlin hospital where he worked in the section of Professor Warburg. At that time, he already knew Sa ´ ndor Feren- czi, who also was interested in the question of the doctor–patient relation- ship. We can assume that Balint read Ferenczi’s paper, “Psychanalysis in the service of the general practicioner” published in 1923. Once back in Hungary, Balint published in 1930 his paper “The crisis of the medical practice” (included in our first Balint issue) for the first time in English. One can find http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Journal of Psychoanalysis Springer Journals

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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:1021122430900
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The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 62, No. 4, December 2002 ( 2002) This second volume of the three special Balint issues planned by the American Journal of Psychoanalysis includes two parts: the first part deals with Michael Balint’s “training cum research” work with general practicion- ers; the second concerns more closely Michael Balint’s personality and is illustrated by some pictures. Michael Balint’s father—with whom he always had a difficult relation- ship—was a general practitioner, so Balint had plenty of reasons to be espe- cially interested in the relationship a general practicioner would be able to create with his patients (or children). He first attempted to approach this problem in the early 1920s at the Berlin hospital where he worked in the section of Professor Warburg. At that time, he already knew Sa ´ ndor Feren- czi, who also was interested in the question of the doctor–patient relation- ship. We can assume that Balint read Ferenczi’s paper, “Psychanalysis in the service of the general practicioner” published in 1923. Once back in Hungary, Balint published in 1930 his paper “The crisis of the medical practice” (included in our first Balint issue) for the first time in English. One can find

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