ABSTRACT
This paper addresses the ways in which supervision of psychoanalysis differs from supervision of psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy when conducted under the auspices of an analytic training institute. Theories of psychoanalysis deal with the nature, origin, and resolution of mental conflict. Gill (1954) defined psychoanalysis as the establishment of a regressive transference neurosis by means of interpretation, carried out by the analyst from a position of technical neutrality. Fancher (1987) defined psychoanalytic psychotherapy as all psychotherapies based exclusively on psychoanalytic theory, but utilizing deviations in technique, including reduced frequency, sitting up, suggestion, and various supportive or ego-building techniques. There is little agreement in contemporary literature on how these two treatment modes differ significantly, where they may overlap, and for whom each is the therapy of choice.
