To survive, general practice needs to reintroduce the psychodynamic dimension
To survive, general practice needs to reintroduce the psychodynamic dimension
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10.1080/14753634.2010.511045
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2010-01-01
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Davidsen, Annette Sofie
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作者:
Davidsen, Annette Sofie
Michael Balint is a remarkable person in the history of psychotherapy in general practice (Gask & Mcgrath, 1989). He claimed that about one third of GPs’ work was made up of some form of psychotherapy (Balint, 1961; Balint, 1964), and he saw the consultation in general practice as an encounter that was intrinsically therapeutic with an emotional relationship developing over successive encounters. From the 1950s until his death in 1971, he conducted training groups at the Tavistock Clinic to equip GPs for this psychotherapeutic task. His wife, Enid Balint, continued this work after his death.Some of Balint’s ideas remain highly controversial and have been criticised for focusing too much on psychological factors (Sowerby, 1977). Attendance to his groups was never widespread; the dropout rate from the early groups was about 60% but later decreased to 25–30%(Gask et al., 1989). However, Balint’s theoretical influence remains undisputed; many of the GPs who attended his seminars were to exert considerable influence on the profession as a whole (Osborne, 1993; Salinsky, 2002). By some, this influence was