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Seattle Balint Leadership Training Intensive
Seattle Balint Leadership Training Intensive - 27 February - 1 March, 2020 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 […]
Find out more »4th Biennial American Balint Society National Meeting
4th Biennial ABS National Meeting Hearing the Patient, Healing the Clinician This conference marks the 30th year of the American Balint Society, founded to explore and promote the therapeutic potential of clinician-patient relationships. Those relationships lie at the core of clinical practice and can be powerful for our patients and ourselves. Hearing the Patient, Healing […]
Find out more »Aachen Council meeting
IBF Council meeting and Balint Conference 15-17/May 2020. DEAR FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES, The German Balint Society (Deutsche Balint Gesellschaft - DBG) feels honoured to host the IBF Council Meeting in spring 2020. Aachen is a historical town with a Roman history and the place where Charlemagne was crowned in 800 A.D. The beautiful Aachen […]
Find out more »Pre-congress of the 9th World Congress for Psychotherapy
Pre-congress of the 9th World Congress for Psychotherapy "Children, Society and Future – the Planet of Psychotherapy" June 26-29, 2020 Moscow, Russia International Balint Conference June 24-25, 2020 Moscow, Russia The main theme of our conference is assistance to helping professionals (doctors, medical and social workers, psychologists and psychotherapists, university professors and […]
Find out more »IBF Leadership Conference Serbia
2020 IBF Leadership Conference Balint in Transition/Transition in Balint, October 2nd -4th 2020 in Serbia. Details to follow.
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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.
