ABSTRACT
In this chapter, a clinical social worker in a community-based mental health organization working with children and families describes her unique experience of being supervised in her agency by a Freudian analyst. She illustrates the supervisor’s capacity and willingness to step outside of her own theoretical orientation and adapt her teachings to the setting, offering holistic and multi-pronged support different from the type of supervision rooted in classical Freudian analysis. Through didactic learning, role plays, and case examples, the author shows how the contributions of a psychoanalytic supervisor can benefit clinicians working outside of a psychoanalytic modality, particularly within a community-based nonprofit agency.
