ABSTRACT
One of the issues facing supervisors, especially in training institutes, is for whose primary bene®t is the supervision: the patient, the therapist, the institute ± or even the supervisor? A case can be made for each, as each has needs ± whether for love, knowledge, power or money. These are all legitimate needs, and each raises problems and questions. I want to move beyond these questions to think about supervision in the context of individuation. Two concepts central to my thinking about this are individuation and the dialectic process.
