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Buchreihe: Ascona Balint Award Essays
ISSN: 3056-2309
203 Seiten, Broschur, 148 x 210 mm
1. Aufl. 2026
Erschienen: September 2026
ISBN-13: 978-3-8379-8590-0
Bestell-Nr.: 8590
https://doi.org/10.30820/9783837964745
With a foreword by Tove Mathiesen, President of the International Balint Federation (IBF)
ISSN: 3056-2309
203 Seiten, Broschur, 148 x 210 mm
1. Aufl. 2026
Erschienen: September 2026
ISBN-13: 978-3-8379-8590-0
Bestell-Nr.: 8590
https://doi.org/10.30820/9783837964745
With a foreword by Tove Mathiesen, President of the International Balint Federation (IBF)
The Student, the Patient and the Illness
Ascona Balint Award Essays 2026
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The essays for the Ascona Balint Award give a deep impression of the students’ experiences, reflections and conclusions. And they show an insight into medical education in different countries.
“It was through reflecting on my experience with Laszlo that a more uncomfortable truth came into focus. There exists another kind of responsibility; One that does not come with protocols, checklists or assessments. It cannot be memorized nor can it be numbered. This responsibility lies in holding space for emotional care alongside practical care, recognizing that the two must work in tandem. Medicine cannot be separated from its core purpose.”Jood Ghunaim
“Listening to him, I began to understand that his body was not merely expressing psychological distress, nor failing in isolation. It had become a territory in itself, bearing the marks of a broader devastation. His pain, his fatigue, his insomnia were not private symptoms but inscriptions of a collective wound, where individual suffering, communal loss, and territorial destruction collapsed into a single experience.”Pedro Henrique Docema Rodriguez
“I imagine a system where, after such an encounter, I could go to a mentor and say, “He spoke of Vietnam and nightmares and his wife and son, gone within weeks of each other. I feel out of my depth. Can we think together about what I have opened and what can be offered now?” I imagine a ward where there is space to hand over not only blood results but stories, where the psychosocial wound is acknowledged as something the team shares responsibility for, not something smuggled into a spare moment by a student.”Sepanta SadafiWith contributions by Jood Ghunaim, Iben Armann Jeppesen, Jasmine Liew, Julia Carvalho Lima, Amit Manor, Barok Marom, Spartan Nandal, Yunis Alexandre El Jaroush Palhavan, Pedro Henrique Docema Rodrigues, Sepanta Sadafi, Tess Wheeler and Fabiana Benedini Galli Zambardino
“It was through reflecting on my experience with Laszlo that a more uncomfortable truth came into focus. There exists another kind of responsibility; One that does not come with protocols, checklists or assessments. It cannot be memorized nor can it be numbered. This responsibility lies in holding space for emotional care alongside practical care, recognizing that the two must work in tandem. Medicine cannot be separated from its core purpose.”Jood Ghunaim
“Listening to him, I began to understand that his body was not merely expressing psychological distress, nor failing in isolation. It had become a territory in itself, bearing the marks of a broader devastation. His pain, his fatigue, his insomnia were not private symptoms but inscriptions of a collective wound, where individual suffering, communal loss, and territorial destruction collapsed into a single experience.”Pedro Henrique Docema Rodriguez
“I imagine a system where, after such an encounter, I could go to a mentor and say, “He spoke of Vietnam and nightmares and his wife and son, gone within weeks of each other. I feel out of my depth. Can we think together about what I have opened and what can be offered now?” I imagine a ward where there is space to hand over not only blood results but stories, where the psychosocial wound is acknowledged as something the team shares responsibility for, not something smuggled into a spare moment by a student.”Sepanta SadafiWith contributions by Jood Ghunaim, Iben Armann Jeppesen, Jasmine Liew, Julia Carvalho Lima, Amit Manor, Barok Marom, Spartan Nandal, Yunis Alexandre El Jaroush Palhavan, Pedro Henrique Docema Rodrigues, Sepanta Sadafi, Tess Wheeler and Fabiana Benedini Galli Zambardino
Foreword
Introduction
Part I
Essays of the Three Winners 2026
Boldog Születésnapot
The Hungarian Phrase For “Happy Birthday”
Jood Ghunaim
Between the Flood and the Farewell
Pedro Henrique Docema Rodrigues
Opening the Wounds You Cannot Stay to Tend
Sepanta Sadafi
Part II
Essays 2026
The Fabulous Right-Sided Heart
Fabiana Benedini Galli Zambardino
Where Knowledge Falls Silent
Yunis Alexandre El Jaroush Palhavan
Slowing Down Means Care
Jeppesen Iben Armann
Remember My Name
Jasmine Liew
The silent patient
Julia Carvalho Lima
Permission to Tremble
Amit Manor
Patient M
Barok Marom
The Shape of Mrs Sharma’s Sunflowers
A Meditation on Love, Loss and Life
Spartan Nandal
What Prognosis Cannot Predict
Tess Wheeler
History of the Foundation of Psychosomatic and Social Medicine
Introduction
Part I
Essays of the Three Winners 2026
Boldog Születésnapot
The Hungarian Phrase For “Happy Birthday”
Jood Ghunaim
Between the Flood and the Farewell
Pedro Henrique Docema Rodrigues
Opening the Wounds You Cannot Stay to Tend
Sepanta Sadafi
Part II
Essays 2026
The Fabulous Right-Sided Heart
Fabiana Benedini Galli Zambardino
Where Knowledge Falls Silent
Yunis Alexandre El Jaroush Palhavan
Slowing Down Means Care
Jeppesen Iben Armann
Remember My Name
Jasmine Liew
The silent patient
Julia Carvalho Lima
Permission to Tremble
Amit Manor
Patient M
Barok Marom
The Shape of Mrs Sharma’s Sunflowers
A Meditation on Love, Loss and Life
Spartan Nandal
What Prognosis Cannot Predict
Tess Wheeler
History of the Foundation of Psychosomatic and Social Medicine