ABSTRACT
I have been supervising the clinical practice of art therapists since 1986, when I began to manage the art therapy service at what was then Hill End Hospital in St Albans. My clinical work within that adult psychiatric service is described in various papers and chapters in books (Killick 1991, 1993, 1996, 2000; Killick and Greenwood 1995; Killick and Schaverien 1997). I had established and developed my interest in art therapy as an approach to psychosis by the time I began to employ the understanding that I had gained in a supervisory capacity. My own experience of psychoanalytic supervision has been ongoing since 1980. This has been an integral part of my clinical work as an art therapist, and continues to be so in my work as an analyst.
