International Balint Congress Brussels 31st August-4th September 2022
The next International Balint Congress will be at the Maison Notre Dame du Chant-d'Oiseau in Brussels from 31st August -4th September 2022. Full details are on the Congress website below.
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The American Balint Society welcomes international participants for its next leadership training intensive from October 27th-30th 2022 at Long Beach Island New Jersey. Full details are here: www.americanbalintsociety.org
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Psychosomatic Medicine
The Student, the Patient and the Illness
Ascona Balint Award Essays 2019
The essays for the Ascona Balint Award give a deep impression of the students’ experiences, reflections and conclusions. And they show an insight into medical education in different countries.
“I learnt the importance of practicing patient-centred medicine – of avoiding the tendency to reduce people to numbers and trends, and treating them as people with individual experiences of illness.“
Elizabeth Hamilton
“One of my insights about that time was that my weakness of identification with the patient’s experience that made my experiences as intense as they were, was probably one of my strongest characteristics as a ‘nearly physician’.“
Nuphar Vinegrad
“I’m proud to be a part of this profession and I’m proud to have been a part of George’s care. He taught me that as a future physician I may be able to cure some people but as person I can care for all of them.“
Michael Watson
With contributions by Katrina Bell, Yohay Bloom, Kirsten Carlaw, Gaylan Dascanio, Ashabilan Ebrahim, Andrea Gipperich, Elizabeth Hamilton, George Huntington, Jessica Ly, Eleesheva Mayo, Michal Rotem-Green, Rebecca M. Shulman, Dominik Stosik, Georges Tinawi, Nuphar Vinegrad, Michael Watson, Kirsty Whitmore, Sarah Woolgar and Cecilia Xu

Balint Literature
Access literature on Balint groups. This is hosted on Mendeley.com.
View books that have been translated into English through the support of the IBF.