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IN AN EXCELLENT WORK, essential for anyone who supervises, is supervised, or teaches a course on supervision, Frawley-O'Dea and Sarnat suggest a language for thinking about our supervisory relationships, challenge our underlying assumptions, and offer a well-defined structure to this unique analytic relationship.
The book was a gift to me from a former supervisee. Our work had a tenuous beginning. The supervisee was doubtful and wondering if I would be someone available, safe, and authentic enough for her to present her work. But as we submitted to the task of understanding her patients from within our own relational experience, an understanding of the therapeutic and supervisory relationship was enhanced. The book was given to me with the following text underlined:
the supervisory relationship can allow the supervisee to gain a deeper understanding of the treatment method being taught [as they] work together to co-construct, mutually derive, and negotiate meanings that elucidate both the treatment relationship and the supervisory relationship.
By giving attention to the relational projections, transferences, and countertransferences, we traversed the murky relational waters and concluded with an experience that left a profound impact on each of us.
My guess is that others who practice relationally will also recognize their work in the pages of this book. For new readers to contemporary psychoanalysis the book offers a clear articulation of relational theory