ABSTRACT
The basic goal of self-processing therapy is to access the adaptive workings of the second unconscious system and its resourcefulness — and resolve a student's symptoms and interpersonal difficulties on that basis. In general, the usual approach is to think of this part of the paradigm as teaching the supervisee engaging in self-processing in order to keep track of the unconscious processes that are influencing his or her supervised work and other dealings in therapy and daily life. The ground rules and framework of self-processing supervision are almost identical to those of self-processing therapy, and it shares much with the communicative forms of secured-frame psychotherapy. Doing self-processing supervision can open a window into that world that is at once disturbing to view yet awesome in its power and incisiveness. Self-processing supervision can help us better to explore, understand, and find ways to re-configure and improve the emotion-processing psyche.
