ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on supervision and supervisor training within the psychodynamic and psychoanalytic field has reached. Changes instigated by the organization, such as increasing fees, changing rooms, changing supervisor, or assessment processes, all affect the supervisory relationship and dynamic. Learning to develop the reflective and analytic skills requires the supervisor to reflect on his or her own counter transference reactions to both the patient material and the supervisee's presentations and use the awareness in their discussions and interpretations to the supervisee. Maintaining and facilitating supervisee development also brings to the fore issues relating to assessment. Psychodynamic and psychoanalytic supervisors often work in counselling and psychotherapy agencies or National Health Services settings, supervising clinicians trained in various modalities. Training in supervision will also incorporate research into the practice and efficacy of supervision and the development of a critical and analytic attitude to the dynamics and process of supervision.
