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[The physician-patient relation through a Balint group]

M Fernández de Sanmamed1, C Iglesias, A Moretó

  • 1Societat Catalana de Medicina Familiar i Comunitària, Mallorca, Barcelona.

Atencion Primaria
|October 31, 1993
PubMed
Summary

Balint Groups (BG) help general practitioners (GPs) manage challenging patients, particularly those with somatization disorders or poor prognoses. These groups facilitate understanding doctor-patient dynamics and therapeutic limitations.

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Area of Science:

  • Family Medicine
  • Psychiatry
  • Qualitative Research Methodology

Context:

  • Analysis of a Balint Group (BG) operational for 7 years within the Catalan Society of Family and Community Medicine.
  • Study focuses on identifying patient types most distressing for General Practitioners (GPs) and the emotions they evoke.

Purpose:

  • To conduct a content analysis of a Balint Group (BG) to understand its impact after 7 years.
  • To identify specific patient profiles that cause distress to GPs.
  • To analyze the emotional responses of GPs towards challenging patient encounters.

Summary:

  • Retrospective qualitative analysis of 21 sessions involving 18 patients revealed that patients with somatization disorders and those with poor prognoses were most disturbing.
  • GPs experienced role-undermining feelings with somatizing patients and high empathy with those having poor prognoses, raising questions about treatment approaches.

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  • Key doctor emotions analyzed included distress, fear, anguish-exhaustion-impotence, and rejection-aggression, highlighting the psychological impact of difficult patient relationships.

    • Impact:

    • Balint Groups (BG) proved beneficial for GPs, fostering group dynamics and clarifying the possibilities and limitations of their therapeutic interventions.
    • Understanding the emotional impact of challenging patient types on GPs is crucial for maintaining long-term therapeutic relationships and professional identity.
    • The study underscores the importance of support systems like BGs for GPs dealing with complex patient presentations and emotional burdens.