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There is a good deal of published writing and research on Balint Groups. The International Balint Federation has begun a project to develop an online resource of annotated references. Until that is available we present here some selected references:

The original reference to “patient-centered medicine.”
  • Balint. The possibilities of patient-centered medicine. The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners (1969) vol. 17 (82) pp. 269-76

More recent literature:
  • Turner and Malm. A preliminary investigation of balint and non-balint behavioral medicine training. Family medicine (2004) vol. 36 (2) pp. 114-22
  • Johnson et al. Essential characteristics of effective Balint group leadership. Family medicine (2004) vol. 36 (4) pp. 253-9
  • Kjeldmand et al. Balint training makes GPs thrive better in their job. Patient education and counseling (2004) vol. 55 (2) pp. 230-5
  • Lichtenstein. Integrating intuition and reasoning--how Balint groups can help medical decision making. Australian family physician (2006) vol. 35 (12) pp. 987-9

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