Born: December 3, 1896 Michael Balint – Hungarian-English psychotherapist. In 1955 he became president of the medical offices of the British Society of Psychologists, and in 1968 elected president of the Balint British Psychoanalytical Society. Works: Individual Differences of Behaviour in Early Infancy. Dissertation for Master of Science in Psychology. London, 1945. Primary Love and Psycho-Analytic Technique. 1956. The Doctor, His Patient and the [...]

Probably the most popular and frightening of all patients tend to have the character of psychopathic personality. Most psychologists, psychiatrists and therapists use the term “sociopathic” and “anti-social” as synonyms – unlike some of the early psychoanalysts since Freud who used these terms to refer to the criminal subculture of people who do not represent [...]

At the end of the psychotic spectrum, people are much more devastated and disorganized. Psychoanalysis of an agitated patient can vary from a pleasant conversation to the possibility to become a victim of the attack which has its purpose to murder. Before the antipsychotic drugs in the 1950s, few therapists had a natural talent of [...]

In the last 30-40 years the prevalence of eating disorders has increased. According to many psychologists, contemporary social trends for equity and equality between men and women mean for many women a chronic competition with men in all spheres of life, which is associated with the need to suppress women’s qualities and enhance men’s qualities. [...]

Numerous psychologists revealed important features of the relationships that determine depressive patients with family and friends. First of all, from the perspective of a psychologist this is the role of the early and repeated losses. Since then, as the founder of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud identified the source of depressive dynamics in the painful experiences of [...]