[Balint seminars in clinics with assistant physicians in neurology continuing education--a workshop report]

The article describes the problems of Balint seminaries held internally in hospitals, basing on literature and on the authors' practical experience, with particular reference to the effectivity of Balint group work. On the one hand, it is evident that this entails a number of disadvantages compared with Balint groups not linked to the institution; however, these drawbacks are no fatal obstacle to Balint group work. On the other hand, we can safely reject the argument that it is not possible to topicalise within the framework of a Balint seminary the pathology of reference in psychiatric and particularly in schizophrenic patients.