Difficult Supervisory Relationships

Jan Wiener:

Gifted supervisees usually work well within most situations; more difficult for the supervisor is to distinguish between those therapists in supervision who take longer to develop and those who sadly may never develop.

Based on her experience as a supervisor in different settings over many years, Jan Wiener’s talk will begin with some thoughts on the nature of supervision, how its theory and practice have evolved recently, and some of the specific dynamics particular to the skills of supervising.    

Jan Wiener is a Training and Supervising Analyst for the Society of Analytical Psychology. She has fairly recently completed two terms of office as Director of Training. She teaches and supervises extensively in the UK and abroad, especially in Eastern Europe. She was Vice President of the IAAP from 2010 to 2013. She has written numerous papers and chapters on themes including supervision and has published 4 books. Her book ‘Supervising and being Supervised: A practice in search of a Theory’ was edited with Richard Mizen and Jenny Duckham and published by Palgrave MacMillan in 2003. Her most recent book, ‘Jungian Analysts working across Cultures: From Tradition to Innovation’, edited with Catherine Crowther, was published by Routledge in 2021.