The Supervisee as Analytic Coparticipant: Interview with Margaret Black, LCSW

Abstract

Margaret Black, LCSW, discusses her ideas about the primacy of relationships in supervision and psychoanalysis. In her view it is the relationship that drives the analytic work, and the supervisor’s role is to encourage candidates to cultivate and engage in it. In Black’s model, a focus of supervision to is to be cognizant of the co-created nature of the analytic dynamic. Candidate’s learning is enhanced by the supervisor’s ability to convey respect and interest in the student’s mind.

Keywords:

• analytic relationship
• co-create
• curiosity
• generativity
• intersubjectivity
• self-awareness
• unsymbolized

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Notes on contributors

Jill Choder-Goldman

Margaret Black, LCSW, is a Board Director, Director of Continuing Education and Supervisor at NIP. She is also a Founding Board Member and Vice President of IARPP and a Founding Board Member and Faculty of the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies. She is an Associate Editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues and a member of the Editorial Board for Studies in Gender and Sexuality.

Jill Choder-Goldman, LCSW, is the Interview Editor for Psychoanalytic Perspectives, where her most recently published interview was with Adam Phillips. She is a psychoanalyst with a private practice in New York City, where she treats individuals, couples, and groups, and she is a clinical supervisor and advisor for NIP. She devotes a part of her practice to those in the arts, having also had a successful career as a performer for 20 years.