ABSTRACT

As the title of this chapter suggests, the process of supervision is rather like piecing together a jigsaw puzzle. In the presentation of clinical material from a session with a child in art therapy, there are a myriad of projections, thoughts and feelings brought by the art therapist to supervision. In mulling over the material, there is an impression or an idea that begins to form in the supervisor's mind of what the puzzle might look like as it grows towards completion. Finding a piece of the jigsaw that ®ts involves making links and transforming what was unknown into something that is known and becomes `seen'. Working on this together with the supervisee involves a slow and careful process of thinking and understanding how the various pieces may or may not ®t together.