Reading Michael Balint: A Pragmatic Clinician - Paperback

by Helene Oppenheim-Gluckman (Author)

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.

Author Biography

Hélène Oppenheim-Gluckman, MD, PhD is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in practice in Paris. She is a member of the Société de Psychanalyse Freudienne, the Société Médicale Balint, and a Balint Group "leader". She was also associate researcher in INSERM Unit 669. Her work concernes the psychic effects of coma and brain lesions, trauma relating to somatic diseases and disabilities, the relationship between psychoanalysis and medicine and beetween psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, the trans-generational transmission of trauma and values and the transmission of psychoanalysis. She has published several books and a number of articles in psychoanalytic, medical, psychiatric and political-cultural journals.