Balint International 2026

Lectures Saturday, October 3rd.

B. words: Misunderstanding and Transformation in BG
Daniel Brass

A few years ago, I had the idea of making a podcast about Balint groups for the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists. Nearly five hours of interviewing left us with too much material, and it needed to be edited. To help with this process, the production team provided a ‘transcript’ of each interview session, produced by automatic audio transcription software which I am told is something like artificial intelligence (AI).

In these transcripts, the word ‘Balint’ proved unstable. Despite hundreds of occurrences, the software transcribed ‘Balint’ correctly only once. It repeatedly transformed it into other words.

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Overview of supervision of BG leaders and its contribution to containment
Isabelle Nouet Martinot

Balint group supervision has been developed based on experience and references referring to psychotherapeutically group supervision.

A sub group of the leadership task force has gathered experiences and references to develop an overview of supervision for Balint group Leaders.

How can Balint group supervision contribute to the containing function of leaders?

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“Pushback”; historical evolution of a modification in Balint group work
Henrik Klasson

A microhistory of “sitting-out/pushback” in Balint groups – often assumed standard, yet documented as a later innovation. Drawing on published records and oral history, the paper traces how a small facilitating intervention spread, became normative in some trainings, and reshaped how groups contain emotion.

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