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Supervision in psychoanalysis is not what it used to be. The roles of those who teach and those who are taught seem to be in transformation as psychoanalytic thinking moves onward. Even the concept of teacher and student is becoming decentered. The authoritative view of the “experienced” supervisor can no longer claim to reflect the final, true, or even most accurate account of the patient's mind.
So, too, the context of the supervisory encounter and the approach to treatment seem to be changing. In Supervision in Psychoanalysis, Antonino Ferro demonstrates and teaches supervision from within a new field. The field is decentered relative to that of traditional analytic authority; it is by nature intersubjective and co-created by the patient, the analyst, and the analytic situation. At the same time, while a supervisor may comment on the patient-and-analyst field, Ferro's supervision before an audience now also includes the audience's responses to and participation in the supervision. This is a new analytic field indeed!
Ferro's supervision is conducted in an analytic atmosphere where elements of a working confusion are transformed and transform as they serve the working field. This working confusion is the stuff from which new registers of awareness, experience, thought, and thinking can be opened up, disclosed, found, found out, or created. This kind of awareness involves opening a new dimension or register of thought and thinking; this opening corresponds with improvements in the patient's world.
It is in this optimistic spirit of confusion and transformation that Ferro spells out a post-Bionian psychoanalytic field and a scaffolding for his ideas in Supervision in Psychoanalysis. This book represents the transcripts