Little had been written on the subject of supervision until about ten years ago and would-be supervisors have had to search, sometimes fruitlessly, for any formal training to further their knowledge and experience. This book is a creative idea in a neglected field and provides a welcome addition to the literature. It tries: ‘to provide a forum for discussion of the various aspects of supervision’ and ‘a broad multi-theoretical perspective’. Kugler has gathered together almost all the previously published articles on supervision in the Jungian literature as well as commissioning a number of new papers.

The book is divided into six sections titled: ‘Background’; ‘Individual supervision’; ‘The case colloquium’; ‘Assessing progress in supervision’; ‘Phases in a supervisor's life’; and finally, ‘Supervision and institutions’. With papers from Jungian analysts