Doctors' narratives in Balint groups

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.