Special Section: Matrix and Reverie in Supervision Groups

Berman, Abraham; Berger, Miriam Roskin

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“…The key challenge in training supervisors in the field of psychodynamics is finding ways to approach and treat the unconscious dynamics that enter the supervisory relationship and consider how they affects it. It may come from the patient, the supervisee, the organ-izational setting or even form the supervisor (12,53,54).…”

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Supervision of Supervision

Pernar¹

2017

The SAGE Encyclopedia of Marriage, Family, and Couples Counseling

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At the very beginning of working with the group as a supervisor -the dynamics of which I will analyse more thoroughly in the section Personal Experience, group members were discussing their personal experience of the supervisee's position, their past, present and anticipated relationship with the supervisor and their experience of the supervision of the supervisor. Al-though they broached many areas of conflict, their emotional tone and constructive manner brought to my mind an image of a bracelet with three ornaments: supervisee, supervisor and supervisor's supervisor. Only after some time did I realise that these were some points of the origin of parallel processes, and therefore, in the introduction to this paper, I will show the results of Prof Mirjana Pernar, BSc Psychology, Clinical psychologist, Training group analyst, IGA Zagreb, IPA Psychoanalyst SUMMARY:The paper describes how the supervisor's awareness of their covert processes, thoughts, and feelings increased as a direct result of the work in the median group and in the supervision of supervision. When the supervisor misses the parallel process in the supervision group, it can be discovered in the supervision of supervision and during self-analysis. Some aspects of the parallel processes are discussed and presented through vignettes from supervision and median group sessions. The paper also presents the results of different studies about supervision and supervision of supervision observed from the perspective of supervisees and supervisors. Theoretical explanations of parallel process are presented as well. KEYWORDS:supervisee, supervisor, parallel process, supervision of supervision, supervisor's countertransference 218 Article certain studies which deal with problems of supervision from these three perspectives. I will also touch upon several authors' examinations of parallel processes. FIRST ORNAMENT: SUPERVISEE Countless pieces of research on the effectiveness of analysis have shown time and again that the therapist is not the one who is important for therapeutic change: what is important is the relationship between the therapist and the patient (1). On the other hand, there is a lot less research on what contributes to the efficiency of supervision. Currently available descriptive studies of supervisory processes indicate that the efficiency of supervision probably also depends on the relationship between the supervisor and the supervisee. The results of the Weaks' research in 2002 show that the main conditions for an efficient supervision are the feelings of equality, safety and challenge in the supervision relationship (2). The supervisee's feeling of equality comes from a situation where the supervisor, too, is ready to share the difficulties they encountered in their work and is ready to face the fact that what they are not perfect. Equality in the supervisory relationship is main-tained by the supervisor who shows superiority in knowledge, but not in the attitude towards the supervisee. The feeling of safety is created by confidentiality an...

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Supervision of Supervision

Pernar¹

2017

The SAGE Encyclopedia of Marriage, Family, and Couples Counseling

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“…The literature on group supervision emphasizes that when the supervisor's time and attention have to be shared with other group members, the result may be group dynamics such as competition and rivalry (Boëthius et al ., ; Crick, ; Hawkins & Shohet, ; Ögren & Jonsson, ). Furthermore, Berman and Berger () argue that supervisees in a group may feel uncovered and vulnerable in front of the ‘audience’ of other supervisees, which engenders competition among group members. This can be expected to affect the relationship between the supervisees, but the findings of the present research suggest that it can affect the supervisory alliance as well.…”

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“…Besides the above‐mentioned group dynamics in the supervision group, the gender dynamics and power imbalances in the group might have been attributed to the ruptures in the supervisory alliance. Due to its evaluative and hierarchical constitution, the supervisory relationship is asymmetrical by nature (Bernard & Goodyear, ; Berman & Berger, ), but these dynamics are very outspoken in this specific supervision group. First, the group is composed of a male supervisor in his forties and four very much younger female supervisees; and second, the setting within a university clinic leads the supervisees to be attuned to a performance‐focused setting, where the supervisor is the gatekeeper to the profession (Crick, ).…”

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The Supervisory Alliance in Group Supervision

Hedegaard¹

2020

Brit J Psychotherapy

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In this paper the author explores the ways in which a supervision group can be a source of ruptures in the supervisory alliance. Furthermore, the group's involvement in repair of the supervisory alliance is examined. The author draws upon empirical material from supervision sessions with a supervision group consisting of one supervisor and four novice psychotherapists conducting psychodynamic psychotherapy at a university clinic. Based on the work of W.R. Bion, the paper argues that, in group supervision, the supervisory alliance cannot be separated from the group processes in which it is embedded. The author concludes that a supervision group can affect the supervisory alliance negatively through group dynamics, or the alliance can be ruptured by other alliance formations that constitute themselves in group supervision. However, a supervision group can contribute to the repair of the supervisory alliance by supporting the supervisee, compensating for the supervisor's imperfection and supporting the supervisor.

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“…I am reminded of the importance of a safe space for a process like this, and though the intention was to create such a space, the reality of the moment was that for most of us it was less than that. While working with reverie in a group can engender a circle of empathy within the matrix (Berman & Berger, 2007), in the setting of this exercise the workshop participants were not a group, and were Margot Solomon already (perhaps) in overwhelm from the rich feast that the Conference was providing. Another factor was that most often when I lead a group into a reverie process it is a group that meets regularly and has established trust.…”

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Reverie and Reflection

Solomon¹

2014

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Freud used the idea of “evenly hovering attention” to describe how therapists might attend to both the conscious and unconscious of their patients; Bion and his followers used the term “reverie”. In this paper, the concept of reverie is reviewed and discussed as a core tool for the psychotherapist, that is, if one accepts the idea that the task of psychotherapy may be to help clients or patients learn how to make sense of their inner life of thinking and feeling. Waitara I whakamahia e Freud te ariā “aronga topaki ōrite” hai whakaahua i te puakaha a ngā kaihaumanu i te mauri ora rāua tahi ko te mauri moe o a rātou tūroro: ā, whakamahia e Bion me tana rōpū te kupu “huritao”. I tēnei pepa, ka arotakehia te ariā o te kupu huritao ka matapakihia hoki hai pāraha matua mā te kaiwhakaora hinengaro, inā rā, mēnā e rata ana ki te ariā ko te mahi a te kaihaumanu ko te poipoi i ngā kiritaki tūroro rānei ki te ako me pēhea te aronui ki ngā whakarohanga me ngā kohengihengi ā-hinengaro.

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Special Section: Matrix and Reverie in Supervision Groups

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