The past few years have witnessed a flurry of activity on the subject of supervision with published books and articles from both psychoanalysts and analytical psychologists. The Israeli psychoanalyst Emanuel Berman is no newcomer to the field, with a number of previous papers to his name. He openly declares himself an exponent of the intersubjective approach developed in the USA, emphasizing the importance of integrating intrapsychic processes with interpersonal interactions. This approach will be familiar to analytical psychologists who conceive of the analytic relationship as involving the two selves of analyst and patient, both deeply involved consciously and unconsciously and each potentially changed by the process.

Berman positions supervision at the crossroads of a relational matrix of at least three persons, telling the reader that didactic supervision that fails to acknowledge the significance of the supervisor's personality and subjective experiences when supervising, misses a trick. Supervisors could become ‘less preoccupied with