The place of Balint work in medicine - past, present and future
Keywords:
Psychoanalysis, physicians, family, physician-patient relations, family pracice, teaching, education, medical, graduate, personality
Abstract
The author discusses the place of Balint work in general practice world-wide over the past 35 years. He looks at the reasons why it has not become such a numerically strong movement, the problem of group leadership and the practical realities experienced by South African Balint groups.
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