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I argue that supervision is currently a neglected aspect of psycho-social research and that the psychoanalytic concept of parallel process can contribute to its development. Describing how my own supervision while I was studying for a PhD informed my research, I suggest that reflexivity can be usefully applied to academic supervisory relationships. By regularly reflecting on everything that happens between them, especially anything unusual, psycho-social researchers and their supervisors might discover previously unrecognized material, enhancing research findings.