Abstract
This discussion of papers by Sarnat and Berman on psychoanalytic supervision explores the complex nature of the contemporary psychoanalytic supervisory relationship. It considers how developments in psychoanalytic theory and practice, reflecting relational, intersubjective, attachment, and field theory influences over the past 30 years, have changed the ways in which many analysts practice and theorize supervision. Contemporary supervisors attend not just to the patient being presented, or to the therapeutic dyad, but to the supervisory relationship itself as part of the clinical/supervisory frame of reference. Similarities and differences between therapy and supervision are considered.
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Anthony Bass
Anthony Bass, Ph.D., is on the Faculty of the New York University Postdoctoral Program for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, The Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, and the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies.