British Association for Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Supervision
The Task of Tuning into the Unconscious in Supervision
Supervision of the group by the group – including the supervisor: the supervision group as more than the sum of its parts
The Aims of Attachment-Informed Psychotherapy: a Tool for Supervision
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Dilemmas of Supervising Different Modalities: Problems to Possibilities
As psychoanalytically trained supervisors, we are increasingly faced with the task of supervising practitioners whose trainings and clinical practice may be very different from our own. Psychoanalytic models continue to compete with an expanding range of trainings, some of which either pay scant attention to psychoanalytic principles or none at all, so effective supervision of different modalities is a pressing issue. Multi-model clinical supervision groups have become the norm within many organisations. However, what might make immediate sense economically, leaves little space for thoughtful development of workable frameworks to meet the differing needs of supervisees.
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Using the relationship to heal trauma: Rupture, repair, and relational work with clients and supervisees
This practical workshop, led by Dr. Robert T. Muller, a leading expert on trauma therapy, and globally ac-claimed author of the psychotherapy bestseller: Trauma & the Avoidant Client – is aimed at building our understanding of the therapeutic relationship in trauma treatment and supervision.
As clinicians, we try to maintain a strong therapeutic relationship, but this can be easier said than done. Trauma clients struggle to trust the therapist. This can be mirrored in the supervisory relationship.
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Saturday 16th November 2019
“Supervisees’ Internal Analytic Community”
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HANOCH YERUSHALMI
Therapists’ internalised analytic community appears as a “third presence” in therapeutic interactions, facilitating the development and safety of therapeutic processes, enhancing therapists’ sense of belonging to a protective entity and sharing some of the therapeutic responsibility. Like other internal or imagined communities, the analytic community consists of a group of representations of identification figures with a collective set of ideals and beliefs. Sometimes, however, therapists experience contradictions between their internal analytic community’s representations and individualistic parts of their professional selves. The supervisors’ role includes helping their supervisees to internalise and assimilate constructively the analytic community by negotiating these inner contradictions. The day will continue with these themes and discussions will also occur within small breakout groups. The conference will end with a plenary discussion.
When one therapist is not enough: Supervisors as partners
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An important function of psychotherapy is to increase the capacity of patients to read their own affective and intentional states and those of others who are important to them. A role of supervisors is to assist psychotherapists in fulfilling this function. From child development research we know that the relationship between parents has a role to play in developing reflective, mentalizing capacities.
Extrapolating this finding to the therapeutic encounter, this talk will summarise arguments that have been made over the 70 year history of Tavistock Relationships for couples being seen by two therapists updating and illustrating these in the light of research on the developmental significance of co-parenting.
There is an area of supervision that receives relatively little attention, and that is the role of the supervisee in making supervision a creative process. The word itself – ‘supervisee’ – represents a receptive position: that of being supervised. I want to consider how, as supervisors, we can give attention to the supervisee’s active, if unconscious process of thinking: a way in which supervision can help the supervisee dream the patient into being.
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