Michael Balint (1896–1970)

First published in 1957, with a slight update in 1964, this classic text remains one of the standard works on the doctor patient relationship (largely as found in general practice). This new edition provides an updated descriptive analysis of the doctor-patient relationship, with practical advice on the potential and limits to the doctors involvement with the patient.

For the more primitive personality level in which adult language was often useless or misleading in describing events, Balint proposed "the level of the basic fault": basic, because what happened at that level belonged exclusively to a two-person relationship”; fault, because this was exactly the word used by many patients.

"The patient says that he feels there is a fault within him, a fault that must be put right. And it is felt to be a fault, not a complex, not a conflict, not a show more situation…. [T]here is a feeling that the cause of this fault is that someone has either failed the patient or defaulted on him; and … a great anxiety invariably surrounds this area, usually expressed as a desperate demand that this time the analyst should not-in fact-must not fail him".

Regression to the level of the basic fault came in two varieties: malignant and benign. show less

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> Dans le champ psychanalytique, Françoise JEZE conseille de lire aussi : M. BALINT, Le défaut fondamental, Payot, 1990 ; M. BALMARY, L’homme aux statues, Grasset, 1979 ; F. DOLTO, L’image inconsciente du corps, Seuil, 1984 ; S. FERENCZI, Journal clinique, Payot, 1985 ; S. FREUD : Le problème économique du masochisme, in Névrose, psychose et perversion, P.U.F., 1974 ; La science des rêves, P.U.F. 1973 ; show more target="_top">Inhibition, symptôme, angoisse, P.U.F. 1974 ; O. RANK, Le traumatisme de la naissance, Payot, 1962 ; M. KLEIN, Psychanalyse d’un enfant, Tchou, 1973 ; B. THIS, La requête des enfants à naître, Seuil, 1982; D. VASSE, L’ombilic et la voix, Seuil, 1974 ; D.W. WINNICOTT, De la pédiatrie à la psychanalyse, Payot, 1969. A quoi il faut ajouter la revue Souffles, Palingenèse, 1991.
—Revue Française de Yoga, (13), Janvier 1996 show less