With her experience of the dislocations suffered by families during the war, she undertook additional study of psychoanalysis in 1948 under John Rickman.

Today it is considered that he and Enid had an equal influence of the scientific understanding of this important relationship.

[5] They developed the idea of treating a married couples who had issues, separately but in parallel, with the husband and the wife having different therapists.

Enid was in charge of the training and research course for general practitioners at the Tavistock Clinic until 1965.

[6] Michael Balint died on New Year's Eve in 1970 in Bristol and after his death until 1974 she directed of the British Psychoanalytical Society (now Institute of Psychoanalysis).