EXPERIENCES OF A BALINT AT THE NATIONAL-I NSTITUTE-OF-NUTRITION SALVADOR-ZUBIRAN

This paper is the summary of a two years experience with the Balint gr oup of infectologists of the National Institute of Nutrition, ''Salvad or Zubiran''. These physicians work with HIV/AIDS patients, being our main goal to understand and promote the coping of the anxieties which emerge about patients death and fatal illness. We expose here our theo retical-model based on M. Klein, W.R. Bion, D. Anzieu, Foulkes, Luchin a and others works. The Balint group definition is: ''An homogeneous g roup of physicians that teach, learn and investigate about the doctor- patient relationship''. We see such relation from a psychoanalytical p oint of view.