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Supervision in a Changing World is a welcome addition to the psychoanalytic literature on supervision and especially so for that of child and adolescent psychoanalysis. The writers bring a depth and specificity to supervisory processes gathered together in one volume underpinned by a common appreciation for a developmental perspective, despite some differences in approach.
This book discusses supervision in a variety of settings: independent practice, National Health Service centers in the UK, and training institutions. Individual supervision, group supervision, supervision in organizations, and supervision of trainees are all forms considered by writers with experience in these venues. Various chapters examine supervision of particular psychological circumstances e.g. trauma, cognitive disability, physical disability.
Psychoanalytic treatment has needed to modify technique to meet the requirements of a pandemic world in the past four years. Supervision has had to accommodate particularly alterations of setting but also to address the stresses for patients, supervisees, and supervisors in what have been very frightening times for all and thus shared by all. New creative thinking has arisen as an outcome of these unforeseen circumstances, and this book references this point, but it does not actually provide examples at the level of play technique, e.g. management of zoom work with young children and adolescents, and how such alterations of the frame are created and understood within the supervisory process. Rather, the book focuses on the emotional experiences shared by all. I would have liked to find an even closer look at the ways in which the how-tos are co-created between supervisor and supervisee.
The editors make reference to philosophies and styles of supervision, contrasting an apprenticeship model whereby the less experienced supervisee receives the wisdom of the more skilled supervisor, and a more co-created process where the supervisor fosters independent gro