Working With Disruption in the Supervisory Relationship: Introduction to Panel

Abstract

In this panel Emanuel Berman and Joan Sarnat present examples of supervisions in which anxieties disrupted their work with psychoanalytic candidates. These authors, as well as discussants Franco Borgogno and Tony Bass, concur about the importance of enlarging the scope of the supervisory process beyond the traditional focus on the patient and on supervisee countertransference, narrowly defined, when such disruptions occur.

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Notes on contributors

Joan Sarnat

Joan Sarnat, Ph.D., ABPP, is a Personal and Supervising Analyst and on the Faculty at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. She coauthored, with Mary Gail Frawley-O’Dea, The Supervisory Relationship: A Contemporary Psychodynamic Approach (2001). Her supervisory work will appear on the forthcoming DVD Relational Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Supervision, produced by the American Psychological Association. Dr. Sarnat is in practice in Berkeley, California.

Stephen Seligman

Stephen Seligman, D.M.H., is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Infant-Parent Program, University of California, San Francisco; Training and Supervising Analyst, San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis & Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California; Joint Editor-in-Chief, Psychoanalytic Dialogues: International Journal of Relational Perspectives.