Michael Balint's Word Trail: The 'Ocnophil', the 'Philobat' and Creative Dyads

Raluca Soreanu1

  • 1RALUCA SOREANU, PhD, is Wellcome Trust Fellow in Medical Humanities at the Department of Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck College, London and psychoanalyst, effective member of Círculo Psicanalítico do Rio de Janeiro. She holds a PhD in Sociology, from University College London, and is the author of Working-through Collective Wounds: Trauma, Denial, Recognition in the Brazilian Uprising (Palgrave, 2018). Address for correspondence: Raluca Soreanu, PhD, Department of Psychosocial Studies, School of Social Science, History and Philosophy, Birkbeck, University of London, 26 Russell Square, Room 230, Bloomsbury, London, WC1B 5DQ, UK.

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|September 17, 2019
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