How does psychoanalytic supervision work? A brief communication. Issue 1 (2nd January 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Watkins, C. Edward; Callahan, Jennifer L.
• Is Part Of: Scandinavian psychoanalytic review. Volume 39:Issue 1(2016)
• Page Start: 46
• Page End: 50
• Publication Date: 2016-01-02
• Subjects: Supervision -- psychoanalytic -- psychodynamic -- learning alliance -- real relationship; Psychoanalysis -- Periodicals; Psychoanalysis -- Scandinavia -- Periodicals; Psychoanalysis -- Periodicals; 150.19505
• DOI: 10.1080/01062301.2016.1218599
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0106-2301

Abstract

ABSTRACT: In this brief communication, we offer one perspective – the contextual psychoanalytic supervision model (CPSM) – on how psychoanalytic supervision works. The CPSM, a supervisory extrapolation of Wampold's contextual psychotherapy relationship model, accentuates four psychoanalytic supervisor–supervisee relationship variables as crucial and change inducing: the learning alliance bond, supervisor–supervisee real relationship, creating supervision expectations/providing an expectation-consistent form of supervision, and the supervisee's engagement in facilitative educational actions. The CPSM is presented in hopes of stimulating further discussion about what makes psychoanalytic supervision work.