Volume 34 - 2006

Contents
Frontispiece.Balint weekend at Whalley Abbey
The Balint Society
Programme of meetings of the Balint Society, 2006-2007

The Web Site
Editorial: Room for Balint in the Curriculum?
Response to the draft RCGP curriculum
Competencies and Balint work in US family m edicine
An interview with Ruth Pinder

Personal Papers:
‘Subjectivity and objectivity revisited’: Michael C ourtenay
‘Professional identity development and the psychotherapeutic
function of a residency Balint group': John Freedy
‘Balint groups with young doctors in their foundation year at a
County Hospital in Sweden’: Juanita F o rssel
‘Creativity and passion in Balint group leaders’: Stanley Rabin
‘Late understandings on death and love’: Andre Matalon

Lectures in 2005-2006:
‘Tolstoy’s emotional understanding in Anna Karenina': Sotiris Zalid is
‘Kafka joins the Balint Society’: John Salinsky
'Hable con Ella: The talking cure from Freud to Almadovar’: Andrea Sabbadini
"The whole truth’: Michael Sheldon

Reviews:
'Talking about my Patient' by Ruth Pinder et al: Richard Addison
'Suburban Shaman’ by Cecil Helman: Sotiris Zalidis

Reports:
Secretary's Report: David Watt
International Balint Federation: Heather Suckling
14th International Balint Congress. Stockholm. 2005
Balint Weekend at Whalley Abbey

Announcements:
Occasional paper 87 (RCGP)
15th International Balint Congress. Lisbon 2007
The Balint Society Prize Essay 2007
International Balint Awards for medical students (Ascona) 2007
The Balint Society Council 2006-2007
Guidance for contributors