Description: Out of printHardcover, first edition. Book in perfect condition, some cracking in paper of dust jacket. Dr. Dewald's book is an admirable attempt to deal with the complexities and challenges of the supervisory situation. The author is candid in sharing his approach to supervising a psychoanalytic candidate with her first analytic case. In his synthesis and summary he refers to the importance of a “good fit” between supervisor and supervisee.It is indeed lucky in daily life as well as in supervision to have a collaborative resonance between the participating individuals. But this potentially egalitarian model does not conform with the author's initial definition of psychoanalytic supervision “as a form of master—apprentice education, in which the expert seeks to transmit to the novice the understanding and abilities required for the task at hand.” At the end of the book, however, Dr. Dewald modifies this point of view in making it clear “that the candidate will select only those aspects of the supervisor's model that fit with and subserve the candidate's own learning and personality.” He goes on to emphasize the need for tolerance in the supervisor for the candidate's independence and freedom not to accept some of the expert's suggestions. In my opinion it raises the question whether supervisory suggestions or interpretation are as significant as we tend to believe. Akin to the analytic process, the true or false comments by the analyst are not the cutting of the Gordian knot. What matters most is the interactional, emotional support between patient and analyst, and candidate centering on clinical issues rather than predominantly on theoretical precepts. - review by Gerard Chrzanowski The main part of this book consists of eighteen recorded transcriptions of sessions from a five-year span of the supervision of a candidate at the beginning of her training. The sessions are presented in consecutive pairs selected at random intervals apart from number 68, which stands alone, and the three final sessions as the analysis is terminated. Each transcript is followed by the supervisor's summary and comments. This core section is preceded by an introduction and summary of literature and also a chapter previously published as a separate paper, ‘Aspects of the supervisory process’. It is followed by a contribution from the candidate, Dr Mary Dick.Dewald perceives psychoanalytic supervision as ‘a process of interaction with an unfolding sequence of experience in any single case of candidate—supervisor pairing’. Although he attempts to pin down this process under goals of supervision and educational principles he is also attentive to unconscious factors in the candidate, regression as well as progression, the reactivation of conflicts, challenges to loyalties and previous identifications, and the candidate's transference to the supervisor.Thus we are permitted to ‘overhear’ the recorded sessions. It may take an English eye and ear some time to appreciate the intonations and the idioms. I found myself tripped from time to time by such endearing phrases as ‘out to lunch’, i.e., not paying attention. And, as is only to be expected for an outsider overhearing excerpts from an ongoing relationship, the sequence is not always clear.The sessions illustrate the teaching and learning of classical psychoanalytic concepts. There is a useful passage on the interpretation of resistance before content. This theme recurs in the first half of the recorded sessions and then fades, just as the supervisor's interventions diminish in number and length as the relationship progresses from the didactic to the consultative. The patient's transference is under scrutiny throughout; the analyst's countertransference is also noted and discussed: sometimes it is perceived as causing the analyst to react and sometimes it is used as an indicator of the patient's state; for instance the analyst's frustration provoked by the patient's behaviour may be a re-enactment of her relationship to her mother. - review by Barbara Wharton and Jane Knight
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Publication Year: 1987
Type: Textbook
Format: Hardcover
Subject Area: Clinical Psychology
Publication Name: International Universities Press
Author: Paul A. Dewald
Subject: Psychoanalysis, Psychotherapy
