Provides a descriptive analysis of the doctor-patient relationship, with practical advice on the potential and limits to the doctors involvement with the patient.[...]
Michael Balint is above all known for the "Balint Groups", which came to be a generic term for groups involved with the training of doctors and caregivers in the patient-caregiver relationship. Despite this, the origin and full import of his work has been somewhat overlooked. Helene Oppenheim-Gluckm[...]