ABSTRACT
This chapter explores a supervisory moment occurring at the end of a live-supervision session in which the interviewing therapist (Lisa) expressed a strong dislike for the child (Carla) being seen. The process of supervision, like the process of therapy, can evoke a myriad of emotions. In the seventeenth century, a division was posited between reason and emotion with emotion being viewed as a primeval aspect of human life to be overcome in favour of rationalization and progress. The counterbalance to universalist definitions of emotions are constructionist and relational explanations which seek to broaden descriptions of emotion to acknowledge the social construction and regulation of emotions. G. Fredman believes that emotional utterances and mannerisms will be deeply influenced by the belief structures that people hold about emotions, be it that they fall somewhere in the continuum between universalist and relational views.
