There is a limited place today for narratives in traditional medicine. Howe
ver, the Balint group is a legitimate forum providing doctors to unconditio
nally engage in discussing patients' stories within a secure and safe envir
onment. This paper examines the importance of doctors' narratives in Balint
groups and describes how insightful listening may help them move from a ma
inly biomedical mode to a narrative one, in order to change and repair thei
r patients' and their own personal narratives.