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The entire first issue of this volume of the Bulletin is devoted to this single study of the parallel interactions between patient-therapist and therapist-supervisor during the first six months of therapy. The author makes systematic observations to test the applicability of several hypotheses concerning effective supervision put forth in the literature. Focusing on eight sets of concurrent supervisor-therapist-patient interactions, Doehrman used a naturalistic clinical research format, emphasizing "process" to analyze the clinical data. The results revealed that in every case the therapist developed an intense relationship with the supervisor and that this relationship had demonstrable effects upon the treatment process. Therapists tend to act out their conflicts with their supervisors in the relationship with their patients. Effective supervision ought to entail supervisors' addressing themselves to students' emotional problems which block their functioning as therapists. This involves encouraging insight into the transference between the therapist and supervisor and limiting such insights to their manifestations in the supervisory and therapeutic relationships rather than including all other aspects of the supervisee's life situation.