Psychoanalytic supervision in the new millennium: On pressing needs and impressing possibilities

Watkins, C. Edward

doi:10.1080/0803706x.2013.779748

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“…How could it be pursued? Psychoanalytic supervision research is all too limited, and a contemporary pressing need is to correct that reality and begin building a viable evidence base for supervision practice (Watkins, 2014c(Watkins, , 2015b. In reflecting on the material presented thus far, a number of potentially researchable hypotheses are suggested.…”

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“…What remains ironic, however, is that this increasing attention to culture has generally not been reflected in psychoanalytic supervision itself. With rare exceptions (e.g., Rodriguez, Cabaniss, Arbuckle, & Oquendo, 2008; Rubenstein, 2007; Tummala-Narra, 2004), culture vis-à-vis supervision has largely gone unexamined, and their integration has been identified as one of psychoanalytic supervision’s most pressing needs (Watkins, 2014c). In this article, we would like to consider some ways by which that need might be better addressed.…”

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On a culturally humble psychoanalytic supervision perspective: Creating the cultural third.

Watkins

Hook

2016

Psychoanalytic Psychology

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What is the role of cultural humility in psychoanalytic supervision? In this article, we address that question. While culture has been recognized as central to supervision practice (e.g., Tummala-Narra, 2004), the psychoanalytic supervision literature remains highly limited in addressing issues related to culture and diversity. In what follows, we present a psychoanalytic supervision perspective that is anchored by the construct of cultural humility. Cultural humility is defined, 10 conceptual/practice guideposts of a culturally humble supervision view are proposed, 2 supervision case examples are described, and some supervision/cultural humility research hypotheses are proposed for possible empirical study. Teaching supervisees about and modeling cultural humility is considered to be preparatory education for the creation of a cultural third. Realizing cultural humility via supervisory interaction involves the opening of a supervisor-supervisee third space whereby cultural meanings and experiences are welcomed and can be explored, examined, and experienced anew. This supervision cultural third ideally becomes a prototype for the supervisee/ patient's own creation of a treatment cultural third.

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On a culturally humble psychoanalytic supervision perspective: Creating the cultural third.

Watkins

Hook

2016

Psychoanalytic Psychology

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“…Just as marshalling an evidence base for psychoanalytic therapy has become increasingly important from an accountability perspective (cf. Leichsenring & Klein, 2014;Leichsenring & Rabung, 2008, 2011Levy & Ablon, 2009;Shedler, 2010), the importance of basing psychoanalytic supervision efforts upon an evidence base would also seem a highly desirable educational ideal toward which to strive (Szecsody, 2012;Watkins, 2014b). In this paper, I would like to examine psychoanalytic supervision vis-à-vis that ideal.…”

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Toward a research-informed, evidence-based psychoanalytic supervision

Watkins

2014

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

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Although establishing an evidence base for psychoanalytic practice has become a matter of increasing practical and accountability concern, the establishment of an evidence base for psychoanalytic supervision has yet to be given any consideration. In establishing a more comprehensive evidenceinformed approach to treatment and training, the corollary need to build an evidence base for psychoanalytic treatment supervision would accordingly seem an important next step to address. What research supports the use of psychoanalytically informed constructs in supervision? With that research base considered, is there any sort of an evidence base for psychoanalytic supervision practice itself? In this paper, I would like to examine those two questions, giving particular attention to two psychoanalytically derived variables of supervision import: the supervisory alliance and parallel process. Based on research review, data thus far provide a high degree of empirical support for the supervisory alliance as perhaps being the crucial fundamental and foundational variable in making supervision work or not. While comparatively far more limited and less robust in nature, data about parallel process offer a tentative degree of support for that construct's importance in supervision as well. While still only in its most formative period, we at least appear to have an informed and informing evidence base for psychoanalytic supervision beginning to take more substantial shape.

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“…Unlike good psychoanalytic treatment (Lilliengren & Werbart, 2005;Town, Lomax, Abbass, & Hardy, 2019), good psychoanalytic supervision has not attracted the research attention it deserves (Watkins, 2011). There is limited literature concerning what characterizes good and effective psychoanalytic supervision (Watkins, 2016).…”

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What do psychoanalytic supervisees say about good supervision?

Khoshfetrat

Moore

Kiernan

2021

Counselling Psychology Quarterly

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This study explored psychoanalytic supervisees' conceptualization of good supervision. Fourteen registered psychoanalytic psychotherapists recognized by the Irish Council for Psychotherapy were interviewed. Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, interviews were analysed, and this process yielded two superordinate themes encompassing five subordinate themes. The superordinate theme providing illumination encapsulated the participants' experiences of illuminating the self and illuminating the client. The superordinate theme helping with emotional management referred to the participants' conceptualization of supervision as containing participants' difficult emotions, normalizing clinical difficulties and feeling accompanied. The findings are discussed in light of their implications for practice and theory. Of particular interest is the relief that participants felt when their fears and anxieties were addressed and worked through in supervision. In addition, the study builds a foundation for future research studies to explore the supervisee insight and identify more specific types of insight.

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Psychoanalytic supervision in the new millennium: On pressing needs and impressing possibilities

Cited by 13 publications

References 116 publications

On a culturally humble psychoanalytic supervision perspective: Creating the cultural third.

On a culturally humble psychoanalytic supervision perspective: Creating the cultural third.

Toward a research-informed, evidence-based psychoanalytic supervision

What do psychoanalytic supervisees say about good supervision?

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