Upcoming Events
2019 Spokane Spring Intensive
2019 Spokane, Washington - Balint Leadership Training Intensive - Training leaders in relationship centered care.™ Course Overview The four-day Intensive course is designed to teach Balint Group leadership technique primarily through experiential groups, supplemented by topic-focused small discussion groups and faculty panel discussions. Attendees will have ample time to present cases, practice leading a Balint Group, […]
Find out more »Hungarian Balint Society and IBF Council Meeting
Balint weekend and IBF council meeting in Budapest - the birthplace of Michael Balint! 31May – 2 June 2019. Budapest flyer and application form here! Venue: Panorama Medical Center (PMC) http://www.panoramamed.hu/international-patient.html, 1025 Budapest, II. kerület, Páfrány út 23/b. It is easy to get there by trams 56 and 61 from the metro station Déli pályaudvar, which is a railway station as well […]
Find out more »21st International Balint Congress
21st International Balint Congress - Porto, Portugal Message from the APGB President Dear Colleagues. The Portuguese Balint Association and the International Balint Federation warmly invites you for the 21st International Balint Congress, taking place in Porto, from 11th to 15th September 2019. “Seeing medicine through other eyes” is our theme. Nowadays, medical […]
Find out more »October 2019 Long Beach Island Intensive
American Balint Society - October 2019 Balint Leadership Training Intensive Course Overview The four-day Intensive course is designed to teach Balint group leadership technique primarily through experiential groups, supplemented by topic-focused small discussion groups and faculty panel discussions. Attendees will have ample time to present cases, practice leading a Balint group, and engage informally with […]
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Balint in a Nutshell
Balint History
Psychosomatic Medicine
The Student, the Patient and the Illness
Ascona Balint Award Essays 2017
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.
