ABSTRACT

This chapter is about the speci®c transference phenomena between analysis and supervision that are called parallel process. Since the 1950s we have become used to working with this and other modes of transference. Up to now, only descriptive terms were available for these phenomena which we could experience, observe and use in analytic work and discourse, but for which we lacked any real explanation. Only now, with recent discoveries in quantum physics and neurobiology, have scienti®c explanations become possible; so, perhaps for the ®rst time, this chapter provides insights for a scienti®c explanation for some of our most basic clinical tools. After brie¯y introducing how I understand the clinical place of parallel process phenomena and the development of this concept, I shall present a Jungian perspective on analysis, supervision and their links, before discussing current research in quantum physics and in neurobiology in so far as they are relevant.