Judit Szekacs-Weisz, 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.

Raluca Soreanu is 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 FREEPSY: Free Clinics and a Psychoanalysis for the People: Progressive Histories, Collective Practices, Implications for Our Times (UKRI Frontier Research Grant).

Ivan Ward is 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.

Series Editor's Foreword Acknowledgements Contributor Affiliations Editor's Note Chronology of MichaelBálint's life Part 1: Budapest Trails 1. A Brief Introduction to the Balints and Their World: Object Relations and Beyond 2. Michael Bálint, his world and his Oeuvre 2a. André Haynal: In Memorium 3. The Problems of Education and Society in the Budapest School of Psychoanalysis 3a. Ferenc Er¿s: In Memorium 4. "I look into a room through a round gap." Alice Bálint's Life, Work and Diaries Part 2: Creativity and Primary Love 5. Therapy, Object Relations and Primary Narcissism: Metapsychology in the Early Works of Michael Bálint 6. Primary Harmony: Baby Observationon Infantile Hopes and Quiet States 7. Human Links 8. Michael Bálint and the Budapest School of Psychoanalysis on the Importance of Creativity Part 3: Lost Children of Psychoanalysis 9. Lost Children of the Recent History of Psychoanalysis: Tibor Rajka MD, 1901-1980 10. Remembering Dr István Székács-Schönberger 11. My Debt to Michael Bálint Part 4: Links Rediscovered 12. Introduction to Wladimir Granoff's Presentation on Balint at Lacan's Seminar 13. Presentation on Balint at Lacan's Seminar Freud's Papers on Technique, 26 May 1954 14. Lacan's Balint: Synergies and Discords in a Professional Friendship Author Biographies