Reading Michael Balint The Periodic Table and the surprising extent to

and the surprising extent to which the elite managed to maintain its position into the early years of post-communist Russia

and the need for quick results

The patrician class was highly endogamous

and cultural - that caused division in the church and prevented reconciliation

Reading Michael Balint The Periodic Table and the surprising extent toMichael 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. Hlne Oppenheim Gluckman provides us with a concise account of how reading Balint has enriched psychoanalytic theory and its practice by broadening the indications for the