{"product_id":"reading-michael-balint","title":"Reading Michael Balint","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMichael Balint\u003c\/strong\u003e 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. \u003cstrong\u003eHélène Oppenheim-Gluckman\u003c\/strong\u003e provides us with a concise account of how reading Balint has enriched psychoanalytic theory and its practice by broadening the indications for the psychoanalytic cure and the debate on psychotherapies and the training to the professional care-giver-patient relation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReading Michael Balint: A pragmatic clinician \u003c\/em\u003eshows how Balint must be considered as one of the major figures in the British Independent School of psychoanalysis, along with Winnicott and Fairbairn. \u003cstrong\u003eOppenheim-Gluckman \u003c\/strong\u003eargues that his ideas, and the implications of his work with groups of medical practitioners, have remained hugely influential within modern psychoanalysis and training in medical psychology. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReading Michael Balint presents a clear overview of the main tenets of his work. It provides a fresh perspective on Balint’s contribution and its importance for modern object relations theory and practice and brief psychotherapy. It will be an invaluable resource for psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic psychotherapists, counsellors and trainee psychoanalysts and doctors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHélène Oppenheim-Gluckman\u003c\/strong\u003e is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, and has a doctorate in fundamental psychopathology and practises in Paris. She is a member of the Société de Psychanalyse Freudienne, the Société Médicale Balint, and a Balint Group \"leader\". She has published several books and a number of articles in psychoanalytic, medical, psychiatric and political-cultural journals.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54984242725208,"sku":"9780415713788","price":229.4,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780415713788.jpg?v=1780408861","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/reading-michael-balint","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}