Analytical comparison AC 1.1 Psychodynamics psychology and learning Although it is often seen as didactic, the supervision process is believed by some psychoanalytic supervisors to replicate the therapy process (Doehrman, 197 6; Teitelbaum, 1990). One theory labelled as parallel process maintains that a replication of therapy exists as part of supervision since both the student therapist and the supervisor develop transference and super transference towards each other (Doehrman, 1976; Teitelbaum, 1990). The student therapist unconsciously selects, from the wealth of patient material, those issues with which she/he has neurotic conflicts. The trainee then presents these neurotic conflicts either directly or indirectly by creating those attitudes …show more content…
The supervisor does this in the supervisory sessions both consciously and unconsciously (Langs, 1989, 1994). If the supervisor is able to be deeply affective and yet sufficiently removed in order to make correct formulations about the patient, he/she models for his/her supervisee the ideal example (DeBell, 1981; Schlesinger, 1981; Wallerstein, 1981). The history of American psychoanalysis treatment and training methods also records the evolution of psychodynamic and self-psychology supervision. At first, psychoanalytic and psychodynamic supervision were seen as one and the …show more content…
Trust and safety are important for the supervisee. As the supervisee becomes more comfortable the middle phase evolves where the relationship deepens, the facades are uncovered, the supervisee shows more of her/his therapy interaction, more counter transference to the patient, and more transference to the supervisor is elicited and interpreted (Fleming & Benedek, 1966). The promotion of the regression in the trainee, and when to avoid it, is a question the supervisor must ask in this phase. Also, the ideal supervisor should recognize how he or she, due to super transference, is unwittingly adding to the neurotic conflicts of the supervisee (Langs, 1982). In the last phase of supervision the process between supervisee and supervisor changes. The supervisor's authority and the supervisee's dependency evolve toward mutuality and