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This monograph, produced on behalf of the European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, is a truly international collaboration. With a foreword by Robert Wallerstein and an introduction by Brian Martindale, it has contributors from Britain, Germany, Spain, Argentina, Sweden, Switzerland and the US. It covers a wide range of clinical practice.
In easily readable chapters, León Grinberg addresses the subject of supervising psychoanalytic candidates; Victor Sedlak, that of supervising untrained psychotherapists; Montserrat Martínez del Pozo describes supervision in institutional settings, particularly within a Kleinian framework; and Ulrich Streeck discusses various opportunities for psychoanalytically based supervision within mental health settings. Dorothy Lloyd-Owen then describes her supervision of mental health workers with forensic patients, and Peter-Christian Miest recounts his supervision of staff in a hospice for AIDS patients. In addition there are chapters by Imre Szecsödy and Kurt Gordan on the established work of teaching supervisors in Sweden, and a chapter by Robert Langs on the framework of supervision in psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
Grinberg insists that ‘supervision is not, and must not be, therapy’ (p. 9). As well as considering the issues of transference and countertransference, in relation to supervision, he explores the problem of the supervisee's transference to the supervisor, the supervisor's transference to the supervisee and parallel process in the supervision. He also revisits the distinction he makes between countertransference and projective-counteridentification reactions. Among the problems for supervisors, he touches on such issues as those of the rivalrous supervisee. In all of this Grinberg conveys his overall attitude to supervision in saying: ‘I consider that the most important thing to teach [supervisees] is how to think, so that they can think on their own’ (p. 14).
Sedlak feels that it is important to help untraine