I hope it has become clear with this example that the additional perspective the Kleinian supervision gave me seemed to be a kind of tool—a thinking tool—that helped me technically to get hold of the transference and countertransference situation in an emotionally powerful and effective way. As so often happens with the Kleinian supervision I have received over the years, I again experienced that this individual supervisory session helped me significantly to sharpen my thinking about other patients as well, so that my analytic work with them also improved, becoming more focused on the specificity of the transference and countertransference situation and therefore more meaningful.

With this particular patient, I felt like I had been sitting in a sailboat with her for a year and a half, the sails flapping aimlessly in the wind