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Doctors' narratives in Balint groups
Author(s) -
Rabin Stanley,
Maoz Benjamin,
ElataAlster Gerda
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
british journal of medical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.102
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 2044-8341
pISSN - 0007-1129
DOI - 10.1348/000711299159862
Subject(s) - narrative , active listening , psychology , order (exchange) , narrative medicine , mode (computer interface) , psychoanalysis , social psychology , psychotherapist , literature , computer science , art , finance , economics , operating system
There is a limited place today for narratives in traditional medicine. However, the Balint group is a legitimate forum providing doctors to unconditionally engage in discussing patients' stories within a secure and safe environment. This paper examines the importance of doctors' narratives in Balint groups and describes how insightful listening may help them move from a mainly biomedical mode to a narrative one, in order to change and repair their patients' and their own personal narratives.