The Supervisory Dyad: Creating a Developmental Space

ABSTRACT

This article suggests that supervision is potentially a multi-dimensional developmental space for both the supervisee and the supervisor. It demonstrates how this occurs through a case study of a personal supervisory experience early in the author’s career. There are examples of multiple transference/counter-transference interactions between patient and clinician, supervisee and supervisor, and supervisor and patient. Attention is paid to the experience of lying in the supervision and in development, in general. The author concludes with a description of an orientation toward supervising that attempts to create a developmental space.

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Marsha H. Levy-Warren

Marsha H. Levy-Warren, Ph.D. is a Supervising and Training Analyst at The Contemporary Freudian Society, CIPS, and the International Psychoanalytical Association, and faculty member and clinical consultant in the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy. She is the author of The Adolescent Journey (Jason Aronson, © 1996; reissued, Rowman & Littlefield, 2004) and numerous articles on adolescence, developmental and clinical theory, media, and culture. She is in private practice with adolescent and adult patients in New York City.