ABSTRACT
The main issue in supervision is the education of the supervisee — the unconscious aspects of the supervisory interaction belong in the supervisee's own therapy, or to their respective efforts at "self-analysis". Missed too are the nuances of their unconscious communications and experience — a domain of great import in emotional life and in psychotherapy. The communicative approach to psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy has long argued for the importance of unconscious communication and adaptation in human emotional life and in psychotherapy. Over millennia, the emotionally charged inputs that hominid minds were compelled to cope with increased enormously in complexity and power. Several features of the basic systems of the emotion-processing mind are important for our investigation of the supervisory process. The differences in the concentrations of the systems of the emotion-processing mind are especially clear in the supervisory setting. A critical difference between the two systems of the emotion-processing psyche involves a telling attribute of the systems' perceptual capabilities.
