Psychoanalytic Approaches To Supervision

240 Pages·1990·9.772 MB·English

by  Robert C. Lane

Psychoanalytic
Approaches
to Supervision
CURRENT ISSUES IN PSYCHOANALYTIC PRACTICE
Monographs of the Society for Psychoanalytic Training
EDITOR
Herbert S. Strean, D.S.W.
HONORARY EDITOR
Reuben Fine, Ph.D.
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Lucy Freeman
MANAGING EDITOR
Joseph Krasnansky, M.S.W.
EDITORIAL BOARD
Laurie Adams, Ph.D. Mitchell May, M.S.W.
Robert Barry, Ph.D. Robert N. Mallinger, Ph.D.
Albert N. Berenberg, Ph.D. Jay R. Offen, C.S.W.
Polly Condit, M.S.W. Ellen Reich, M.S.W.
Lloyd deMause, M.A. Norman Shelly
Judith R. Felton, Ph.D. Angelo Smaldino, M.S.W., J.D.
Janet Schumacher Finell, Ph.D. Terry Smolar, D.S.W.
Richard Friedman, Ph.D. Simone Sternberg, Ed.D.
Laura Arens Fuerstein, C.S.W. Robert Storch, M.S.W.
Joyce Haroutunian, M.A. Ronald S. Sunshine, M.S.W.
Richard Harrison, Ph.D. Richard Symons, Ph.D.
Harvey Kaplan, Ed.D. Margot Tallmer, Ph.D.
Dorothy Lander, M.A. Gisela Tauber, M.S.W., J.D.
Robert Lane, Ph.D. Elizabeth Rebecca Taylor, Ed.D.
Sanda Bragman Lewis, M.S.W. Donald Whipple, Ph.D.
Malcolm J. Marks, Ed.D.
CURRENT ISSUES IN PSYCHOANALYTIC PRACTICE
Monographs of the
Society for Psychoanalytic Training
Number2
Psychoanalytic
Approaches
to Supervision
Edited by
Robert C. Lane, Ph.D.
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Library of Congress Cataloging·ln·Publication Data
Psychoanalytic approaches to supervision f edited by Robert C. Lane.
p. em. - (Current issues in psychoanalytic practice : no. 2)
Includes papers from three symposia held in 1987 and 1988 as well
as additional contributed pa]>ers.
Includes bibliographical references.
Includes index.
ISBN O..S763Q.603-2
l. Psychoanalysis-Study and teaching-Supervision-Congresses.
I. Lane, Robert C. !L Series: Current issues in psychoanalytic
practice (Bnmner/Mazel Publishers) : no. 2.
(DNLM: I. Organization and Administration. 2. Psychoanalysis.
WI CU788LD no. 2 I WM 460 P97503]
RC502.P73 1990
616.89'17-dc20
DNLM/DLC
for Library of Congress 90-1971
CJP
ISBN 978-0·876·30603·1 (bbk)
Contents
Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Herbert S. Strean
Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Robert C. Lane
Selection of Patients for Psychotherapy Supervision . . . . . . . . . . 9
Patricia R. Everett & George Stricker
On Being Supervised and Supervision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Saralea E. Chazan
Supervision and the Analytic Superego . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Reuben Fine
Contemporary Issues in and Approaches to Psychoanalytic
Supervision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Franklin H. Goldberg
The Good Hour in Supervision . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Robert C. Lane & James W. Hull
The Use of Primary Experience in the Supervisory Process . . . . . 58
Warren Wilner
Some Remembrances of Supervisory Sessions with
Erich Fromm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
George D. Goldman
Supervision in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Edith Schwartz
The Parallel Process Phenomenon Revisited: Some Additional
Thoughts About the Supervisory Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Fred Wolkenfeld
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Symposium: Gender Issues in Psychoanalytic Supervision
Introductory Remarks ................................... 113
Jeanne M Safer
Cross-Gender Supervision of Cross-Gender Therapy ......... 114
Dale Mendell
Response and Commentary .............................. 119
Jeanne M Safer
One, Two, Three Strikes, You're Out ....................... 122
Arnold Rachman
Transference Issues in Cross-Sex Supervision ............... 124
Wilma Cohen Lewis
Cross-Gender Supervision Problems: Reality, Social
Fictions or Unconscious Processes? ....................... 128
Anna Duran
Gender Issues and the Art of Psychoanalysis ............... 132
Stephen M Schiff
Symposium: Psychoanalysis versus Psychotherapy: Different
Approaches in Supervising Graduate Clinical Students
Introduction ........................................... 137
Ruth Ochroch
The Implications of "Control-Mastery Theory" for
Supervision ............................................ 140
Suzanne M. Gassner
Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Therapy, and the
Process of Supervision .................................. 14 7
Bertram P. Karon
The Mastery of Countertransferential Anxiety:
An Object Relations View of the Supervisory Process ........ 157
Joseph W Newirth
The Supervision of Graduate Students Who Are Conducting
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy .......................... 165
Jerome L. Singer
Symposium: The Psychoanalytic Supervisory Process
Introduction ........................................... 179
Gayle Wheeler
Contents vii
Interpersonal and Intrapsychic Complexities and
Vulnerabilities in the Psychoanalytic Supervisory
Process ............................................... 181
Elaine G. Caruth
Supervison and the Achievement of an Analytic Identity ..... 194
Norman C Oberman
Discussion ............................................ 207
Martin Mayman
Index ................................................... 215
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Foreword
Current Issues in Psychoanalytic Practice takes pride and pleasure
in producing this issue on supervision. Our Guest Editor, Robert C.
Lane, has done a superb job in gathering an array of distinguished
psychoanalytic educators who have provided us with many stimulat
ing insights on many dimensions of the supervisory process.
Many of us who practice psychoanalysis and psychotherapy
have contended that doing supervision is much more difficult than
performing psychotherapy. Not only must the supervisor deal with
transference and countertransference issues, resistances to learning
and counterresistances to teaching, but how to intervene in super
vision is much less prescribed and much less clear. Should the
supervisor be a therapist or quasi-therapist? How much should the
supervisee's dynamics be discussed in supervision? Does the super
visor have the right to recommend further analysis? These are some
of the questions that perplex educators in the mental health pro
fession and have not yet been completely answered.
Dr. Lane and his colleagues have moved us further in our
understanding of the complexities of the supervisor-supervisee rela
tionship and have enlightened us regarding the many different
patterns of learning and achieving, as well as blocking and failing.
One of the unique aspects of this issue is that the supervisee is
individualized, and his or her experiences are given a high priority.
Further, in virtually all of the papers, the teacher emerges as an equal
partner trying to understand his or her own role in the supervision
process.
We are very indebted to Dr. Lane for this unique and eloquent
contribution. We are sure the understanding of all of our readers will
be enhanced by it.
HERBERT S. STREAN, D.S.W.
Editor
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