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Psychoanalytic training includes three sources of psychotherapeutic wisdom: personal training analysis, didactic learning and supervision. Over time, the art of supervision has matured from an authoritarian pedagogy to a point of recognition that “supervision is a complex negotiation between two persons (often) with two very different perspectives, in spite of their (shared) stated goals” (Rock, p. 10). Supervisors continue to have questions about their efforts to utilize and correct supervisees' contributions to the psychotherapeutic process. powerfully described a “reflection process” in which the supervisory interaction is influenced by the transference-countertransference processes in the analytic relationship. If recognized, this parallel process of unconscious mutual influence within the supervisory relationship can be productive, if not, it will produce inevitable difficulties.
Fourteen noted psychoanalyst contributors bring to the reader a close look at creative supervisors and supervisees in action. The essays in this book apply a contemporary psychodynamic approach from an interpersonal/relational perspective to a set of basic issues in supervision. These issues, some unresolvable, are discussed in the chapters and each attempts a solution that reflects current theories.
Editor Martin H. Rock has assembled a group of contemporary authors to address basic issues of psychodynamic supervision. The first issue relates to the nature of supervisory instruction: co-participation and dialogue. The authors agree that the unfolding supervisory process is a shared