Balint groups in the postwar period in Croatia (with regard to medical and social conditions).

The author tried to present social circumstances in the postwar period in Croatia, a period similar to other situations occurring after a war. Family doctors, and especially psychiatrists, exerted themselves to be present in these situations, and also they were alert to the sufferings of human beings as a consequence of the war. New conditions, new relations, as well as the previous war actions in which the patients had participated, made psychopathologic morbidity rather different from that appearing during the war and before the war. The doctors had to adapt or innovate, with more or less skill, Balint techniques in order to achieve better treatment results. In this they undertook particular precautions not to jeopardize classical forms of treatment and to be always in collusion with continuity of medical development and social changes. The author presents this adequately, having in mind all the levels with which a patient comes into contact. And, finally, it is concluded that only two active subjects in a treatment can make this treatment successful.