ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on having participated in an encounter between psychoanalysts from Norway and Germany and Chinese psychologists and psychiatrists. The frame of this encounter has been the Sino-Norway Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Training Program for Supervisors and Advanced Psychotherapists—a three-year programme comprising theoretical lectures, supervision, and personal experience for participants. A main task for the dynamic psychotherapist is to understand the affective messages that are expressed in the therapeutic relationship to the therapist. While being a participant in an often intense emotional relationship to the patient, the therapist is at the same time expected to observe and comment on characteristic, repetitive features of this relationship. Dynamic psychotherapy is founded on the psychoanalytic theory of personality and psychopathology. The chapter argues that applying detailed therapeutic dialogue material as a basis for supervision is a useful way of assisting candidates in acquiring a personalised understanding of latent transference–countertransference dynamics.
