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To facilitate personality change, to set in motion a healing process, to enhance a person's capacity to deal more effectively with his life involves us in a human encounter that evokes our deepest emotions, our own knowledge of life, our understanding of psychopathology, and our skills in the techniques of psychotherapy. In our personal lives we depend on friends and family to keep us on course when difficulties arise. In like fashion, as professionals, we need to build in supervision, and later consultation, to support us in this perilous and rewarding work.
The Supervisory Encounter provides a comprehensive theoretical and technical framework for understanding the supervisory process. Psychodynamically based, the authors focus on how newer theories such as self-psychology, intersubjectivity, and an interactive twoperson psychology influence the theory and technique of supervision. The Supervisory Encounter traces its beginning to participation by the authors in the Boston Psychoanalytic Society supervisors' study group, and in a supervisory study group at Cambridge Hospital.