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The supervisory situation is a very complex triadic relationship between supervisor, supervisee, and patient. It allows for multiple countertransference paradigms to exist in dynamic fluctuation, that of supervisee and patient, supervisee and supervisor, supervisor and supervisee, and supervisor and patient.
Freud (1900), was willing to share his dream about a patient in order to teach about dream interpretation. The specimen or Irma dream, the first dream of its kind to be subjected to intense scrutiny, is a countertransference dream (Erickson, 1954). Through the analysis of this dream, Freud revealed some of his own conflicts and modes of defense. Of the 50 dreams reported by Freud, patients appear in the manifest content of 3. Analysts probably use their dreams privately to understand their patients, and analytic candidates would be expected to report dreams related to their work to their training analysts. Yet, aside from Freud, very few analysts have been willing to report their dreams about patients (Gitelson, 1952; Kleeman, 1962; Orr, 1954; Tauber, 1954; Tower, 1956; Whitman, Kramer and Baldridge, 1963; Lester, 1985).
In 1969 Whitman, Kramer and Baldridge documented in their sleep laboratory studies that dreams about the patient were occurring more frequently in analysts and therapists than was being reported. They studied countertransference in dreams and experimentally recovered