The Analyst's Curative Fantasies

Schaffer, Amy

doi:10.1080/00107530.2006.10747110

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“…However, beyond the different organizational contexts, analytic approaches, and the personalities of patient, supervisee, and supervisor, theorists of supervision recommend that the supervisor struggle to foster the supervisee's creativity, true-self freedom, passion for forming independent theoretical positions (Casement, 2002), emotional aliveness, and spontaneity (Schaffer, 2006). Moreover, in a seminal paper, Kernberg (1996) ironically elaborates on the many ways in which the supervisor can destroy the supervisee's creativity and passion, and suggests that the primary supervisory goal is to foster the supervisee's autonomous theoretical thinking and expand the supervisee's capacity to shape the analytic discourse.…”

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Supervision and Contributing to the Analytic Culture

Yerushalmi¹

2021

Brit J Psychotherapy

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Three dialectical tensions in psychoanalysis are discussed: between scientific and artistic aspects, between development through theoretical writing and individual therapists' discourses, and between influencing and being influenced by the wider culture. Based on these dialectical tensions, I describe as artwork the supervisee's clinical work that becomes reconstructed in supervision through the supervisee's narrative and parallel processes. From this perspective, the patient and the therapist become the artist and the medium for each other, and the supervisor becomes an art critic who evaluates and maintains a direct dialogue with the artwork. Thus, the supervisor assesses not only the subjective and intersubjective aspects of the supervisee's clinical work, but also its cultural aspect by formulating the cultural influences on this work. More importantly, the supervisor evaluates the potential contribution of the original features of the supervisee's clinical work to the analytic culture and, indirectly, to the wider culture. Notwithstanding internal and external restrictive forces, formulating this potentiality is likely to inspire the supervisee's attempts to influence the analytic discourse from different professional platforms. A supervisee, who feels capable of shaping, albeit slightly, the analytic discourse, is likely to sense agency, autonomy, and creativity, and enliven the therapeutic interactions and the analytic culture.

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Supervision and Contributing to the Analytic Culture

Yerushalmi¹

2021

Brit J Psychotherapy

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“…In the supervisory relationship, this entails encouraging supervisees to bring mistakes and to enter into mutual curiosity about them. As Schaffer (2006) points out, therapists who feel they can be honest about their mistakes are preferable to therapists who only bring what is acceptable to supervision. It is as much the supervisor's responsibility to create this environment as it is the supervisee's (Frawley-O'Dea & Sarnat, 2001).…”

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“…Such exploration is not limited to exploration of the supervisee's history (which has been the primary area where objections to countertransference exploration in supervision have been raised). Included are the supervisee's patterns of relating; unconscious responses to the patient; and, as illustrated in the vignette above, the therapist's own fantasies about what brings about cure (Schaffer, 2006;Werbart, 2007). What may be repeated in the treatment is the therapist's own experience of what was helpful to her, and this may not always fit with what is needed by the patient.…”

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The use of a concept: Projective identification and its theoretical use in supervision.

Long¹

2015

Psychoanalytic Psychology

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Theoretical concepts come to life in the supervisory and therapeutic encounter. This paper explores manifestations of the concept of projective identification in supervision. It is argued that the use of the concept of projective identification can sometimes be liberating for therapists, but it can sometimes be used defensively to "blame" the patient. In this situation, the therapist's own countertransference is located in the patient. Winnicott's distinction between objectrelating and object use is used as a metaphor to suggest that therapists can sometimes use the concept of projective identification in their understanding of themselves and their patients, and they can sometimes subjectively relate to the concept of projective identification, turning it against the patient. In this way, concepts are taken into the internal world of the therapist. The way in which projective identification is used or related to by therapists holds implications for supervisory debates and practice.

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Supervision of Psychoanalytic/Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

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Long²

2014

The Wiley International Handbook of Clinical Supervision

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The Analyst's Curative Fantasies

Cited by 9 publications

References 14 publications

Supervision and Contributing to the Analytic Culture

Supervision and Contributing to the Analytic Culture

The use of a concept: Projective identification and its theoretical use in supervision.

Supervision of Psychoanalytic/Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

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