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Hearing Secret Harmonies: Balint and The Re-Imagining of Medicine

N.N. · Balint Journal · 2020 · Heft 01 · S. 5-12

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2020
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Zeitschrift
Balint Journal
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N.N.
Ausgabe
Heft 01 / 2020
Jahrgang 21
Seiten
5-12
Erschienen: 2020-03-01 00:00:00
ISSN
1439-5142

Zusammenfassung

Abstract The author uses three poems – all by the same poet who was a respiratory physician – to describe the role the imagination in Balint groups, profoundly psychoanalytic in principle, in re-imagining medicine. He states that doctors emerge from medical school ‘one-eyed’ but can slowly move to restore ‘binocular vision’ through emotional insight and greater awareness of relationships gained through participation in a Balint group. He cites Enid Balint’s concept of ‘imaginative perception’ and describes a case which brings many of the themes of the talk together including unconscious communication and the nat…

Schlagworte

Imagination Listening Time Poetry Unconscious Communication Phantasie Hören Zeit Poesie Unbewusste Kommunikation Awareness Balint Journal