The methods and special aims of the so-called Balint groups are presented and exemplified with a group of clergymen who wanted to incorporate psychoanalytic perceptivity into their ministerial work. The group met under the guidance of a psychoanalyst and concentrated on the 'situative' events of cases taken from a parson's everyday practice. The group soon began to identify with the therapist's way of perceiving. In studying the unconscious meaning that various situations had for the members of their parishes, the clergymen themselves underwent processes of psychological transformation leading to changes in their professional practice.