THE THESIS OF THIS PAPER is straightforward and simple enough. Dr. Epstein suggests that the supervisor encourage his supervisee to express as much of his negative thoughts and/or feelings about the supervisor, the supervision, and his patient, as is possible; that this verbal experience will help limit the development of collusion between supervisor and supervisee to ignore indications of the supervisor's negative impact on the supervisee; and ultimately serve to protect the patient from the supervisee's antitherapeutic countertransference.

First I will address Dr. Epstein's thesis, and then make some remarks