The authors report the experience of a Balint group comprising doctors engaged in industrial practice, having no responsibility for treatment. The relationship which they establish are therefore specific. The experiment covered a year, with two sessions of an hour and a half per month. The participants placed much emphasis on the multiplicity of their role, which involved very varied relationships-with workers, management, their collegues outside-and it was important to understand this. Although industrial medicine is necessarily collective, this does not obviate the psychological approach. On the contrary, the doctor must here learn to establish therapeutically valid relationships.
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