Balint Michael Knihy

Unter Fachleuten besteht heute Einigkeit darüber, daß dies bei mindestens fünfzig Prozent all der Beschwerden der Fall ist, die die Patienten zu ihrem Arzt führen. Balint zeigt uns anschaulich, daß in der Therapiebeziehung die ärztliche Persönlichkeit wie ein Medikament wirksam ist. Fachmännisch dosiert trägt sie in hohem Maße zur Heilung bei, schadet jedoch und erzeugt Nebenwirkungen, wenn der Arzt eigene Mängel und Vorurteile in diese Beziehung einbringt.

When it was first published in 1968, Michael Balint's The Basic Fault laid the groundwork for a far-ranging reformation in psychoanalytic theory. This reformation is still incomplete, for it remains true today that despite the proliferation of techniques and schools, we do not know which are more correct or more successful--and all psychoanalysts continue to encounter intractable cases of mental disorder. Balint argues that ordinary "rigid" techniques and theories are doomed to failure in such cases because of their emphasis on interpretation.The Basic Fault continues to illuminate the crucial current issues in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in general: the nature of self, the role of developmental defects, the value of empathy, and the central importance of the relationship between therapist and patient. This paperback edition includes a foreword by Paul H. Ornstein discussing the impact of Balint's work at the time of its publication and its continued importance now.

One of the eternal problems of mankind is that of love and hate. Why and how does it happen that we love this one of our fellow-men, feel safe in his affection, expect satisfactions of our needs from him and are attracted to him, while we hate and avoid other? Ever since the publication of Freud's first works one of the main objects of psycho-analytic research has been the study of these powerful currents of the human mind. The author contributed several important papers on this subject, and Primary Love and Psychoanalytic Technique is a collection of his material from 1930 to 1952. The first half of this volume is a collection of all his papers on this topic. The first, "Psycho-Sexual Parallels to the Fundamental Law of Biogenetics", is an attempt to trace the development of the erotic instincts from their earliest biological beginnings in unicellular organisms to their highest manifestations in human beings. Other papers deal with the problems of "Genital Love". "Transference of Emotions", of "Love and Hate" and so on.

Michael Balint hat in diesem Werk die Erkenntnisse einer zwanzigjährigen Forschungsarbeit vereinigt. Sie lassen sich, so differenziert sie im einzelnen sind, auf eine Grundkonzeption zurückführen: auf eine Fundierung des menschlichen Lebens und seiner Äußerungen im mitmenschlichen Austausch.