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In this chapter, a developmental approach to supervision will be elaborated. The developmental approach applies to two complementary levels: as a model for the actual process of supervision, the interaction between supervisor and supervisee, and as a specific theory, the plan formulation model, which is used within supervision to understand the dynamics of the patient and of treatment.
Understanding psychoanalytic supervision as a developmental process is an obvious idea, because supervision is an intense mentoring experience with significant effects on the analyst's identifications and actual functioning. There have also been many excellent writings applying a developmental model to treatment and contrasting this approach to a more traditional defense-resistance approach (see Shane, 1977, Schlessinger and Robbins, 1983; Thoma and Kaechele, 1986; Emde, 1990; Settlage, 1992). However, this model has not been applied in any