Michael Balint addresses himself to a variety of subjects of interest to both the layman and the practicing clinical psychologist or psychiatrist: among others, sex and society, masturbation, discipline, menstruation, punishment, aging, and parapsychology.

The Individual and the Community -- Sex and Society (1956) -- The Problem of Discipline (1951) -- The Adolescent's Fight Against Masturbation (1934) -- The Psychological Problems of Growing Old (1933) -- On Punishing Offenders (1951) -- Notes on the Dissolution of ObjectRepresentation in Modern Art (1952) -- Individual Differences of Behaviour in Early Infancy and an Objective Method for Recording Them (1945) -- Clinical Problems -- Contributions to Reality Testing (1942) -- A Contribution on Festishism (1934) -- A Contribution to the Psychology of Menstruation (1937) -- Perversion or a Hysterical Symptom? (1923) -- Notes on Parapsychology and Parapsychological Healing (1955) -- The Doctor, His Patient and the Illness (1955) -- Men and Their Ideas -- I. P. Pavlov (1927) -- Dr. Sándor Ferenczi as Psychoanalyst (1933) -- Sándor Ferenczi, Obiit 1933 (1948) -- The Life and Ideas of the Marquis De Sade 1 , 2 (1954) -- Géza Róheim 1891-1953 (1954) -- On Szondi's 'Schicksalsanalyse' and 'Triebdiagnostik' (1948) -- Pleasure, Object and Libido (1956)