Clinical Supervision of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

193 Pages·2014·0.579 MB·English

by  Jill Savege Scharff

CLINICAL SUPERVISION
OF PSYCHOANALYTIC
PSYCHOTHERAPY

CLINICAL SUPERVISION
OF PSYCHOANALYTIC
PSYCHOTHERAPY
Edited by
Jill Savege Scharff
First published in 2014 by
Karnac Books Ltd
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Copyright © 2014 to Jill Savege Scharff for the edited collection, and to the
individual authors for their contributions.
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vii
ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ix
INTRODUCTION xiv
Jill Savege Scharff
INTRODUCTORY ESSAY
Supervision as a mutual learning experience 1
Imre Szecsödy
CHAPTER ONE
Theory of psychoanalytic psychotherapy supervision 13
Jill Savege Scharff
CHAPTER TWO
Boundaries in supervision 25
Jaedene Levy
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CHAPTER THREE
Supervision as a model of containment for a turbulent patient 33
Mary Jo Pisano
CHAPTER FOUR
Supervision or thera-vision? Working with unconscious
motives in the supervisory encounter 43
Carl Bagnini
CHAPTER FIVE
The supervision process in training 55
Rosa Maria Govoni and Patrizia Pallaro
CHAPTER SIX
Supervision of art psychotherapy: transference and
countertransference 73
Elizabeth Rundquist
CHAPTER SEVEN
Social workers’ experience of conflict in psychotherapy
supervision 85
Elizabeth H. Thomas
CHAPTER EIGHT
The group supervision model 105
Colleen Sandor
CHAPTER NINE
“Can you hear me?” Cross-cultural supervision by videochat 125
Christine Norman, Joyce Y. Chen, Xiaoyan (Katherine) Chen,
Chunyan Wu
CHAPTER TEN
Supervision of the therapist’s resonance with her patient 139
David E. Scharff
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Supervision in the learning matrix 147
Jill Savege Scharff
INDEX 171
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Introductory essay: We are grateful to Taylor and Francis for giving
permission to modify Imre Szecsödy’s article “Supervision should be
a mutual learning experience.” Reports and brief communications.
Scandinavian Psychoanalytic Review 36(2) copyright © The Psychoanalytic
Societies of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, reprinted by
permission of Taylor & Francis Ltd, www.tandfonline.com on behalf
of The Psychoanalytic Societies of Denmark, Finland, Norway and
Sweden.
Chapter Five was derived, revised, and adapted from Govoni, R. M. &
Pallaro, P. (2008). The supervision process in training. In H. Payne
(Ed.). Supervision of dance movement psychotherapy: A practitioner hand-
book (pp. 33–48). London, UK: Routledge, with kind permission from
Routledge. The authors wish to dedicate this chapter to the loving mem-
ory of Teresa Escobar whose contributions to the writing of this chapter
they wish to recognize, along with those of Leonella Parteli and Marcia
Plevin, faculty of Art Therapy Italiana (http://www.arttherapyit.org).
Elizabeth Rundquist dedicates Chapter Six in gratitude to her
husband David Rogers.
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viii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
In Chapter Nine, Christine Norman’s use of an excerpt from the
poem Talk by Kwame Dawes appears by permission of the author and
courtesy of www.poet.org.
Chapter Ten appeared previously in Refinding the Object and
Reclaiming the Self by David E. Scharff, (pp. 309–318) reproduced
courtesy of Rowman and Littlefield.
Chapter Eleven appeared previously in Tuning the Therapeutic
Instrument by Jill Savege Scharff and David E. Scharff (pp. 313–332)
reproduced courtesy of Rowman and Littlefield.
ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS
Carl Bagnini, LCSW, BCD, is a senior and founding faculty member
at the International Psychotherapy Institute in Washington DC and
in Long Island, NY, where his private practice is in Port Washington,
NY. He is a clinical supervisor at the Ferkauf Graduate School of
Psychology, faculty at The Derner Institute at Adelphi University
and New York University Graduate Certificate Program in Child and
Family Therapy. Mr Bagnini is a featured presenter at national and
international conferences and videoconferences, and has written many
papers and book chapters on object relations topics. His recent book
is: Keeping Couples in Treatment: Working from Surface to Depth (Lanham,
MD: Jason Aronson, 2012).
Joyce Y. Chen, PhD., is a clinical psychologist, China-licensed
counselor, member of Shanghai International Mental Health
Association (SIMHA), and member of Chinese Psychological
Society for Professionals in Clinical and Counseling Psychology. She
specializes in psychodynamic therapy for individuals and emotion-
ally focused therapy for couples. Dr Chen received her doctorate in
Clinical Psychology from East China Normal University in Shanghai,
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