Balint's mother, Vilma Kovács, had also been a psychoanalyst.[2] Balint was also a childhood friend of Margaret Mahler.[3]
She married Michael Balint, also a psychoanalyst, in 1920.[4] The two soon moved from Hungary to Berlin.[5] However, they returned to Budapest in 1924, and lived at No.12 Mészáros Street, five floors above the Hungarian Psychoanalytical Society's Polyclinic, which opened in 1931.[5][6]
Career
Balint wrote the book The Psychoanalysis of the Nursery,[7] which was first published in Hungarian in 1931, and later in German, Spanish, French, and English.[5] Balint planned to translate it into English herself, but died before being able to. It was published in English in 1953.[5]
Balint, her husband, and their son moved to Manchester in 1939, as did many other Hungarian psychoanalysts who were anxious about World War II.[5][8][9] Balint died later that year of a ruptured aortic aneurysm.[10][5][11] She and her husband left behind one son, John A. Balint (1925–2016).[12]
