ABSTRACT
This chapter begins by identifying what are potentially the most stable aspects of the supervisory frame — the fixed attributes that can stand as relatively unchanging aspects of the conditions of supervision. In principle, the setting for supervision should be established and sustained for the entire span of the supervisory work. The standard model of supervision provides no consistent or established means of accessing the dynamics of these issues and their unconscious ramifications. Serious inputs go unrecognized and are played out without awareness interceding in either party to the supervision. A supervisor using the communicative model of supervision would be in a quandary. The fee structure of supervision should be comparable to that of psychotherapy, with the hour set aside for the supervisee and his or her acceptance of full responsibility for the time. The type of dream conveys unconscious messages about both the supervision and the personal therapy of the supervisee.
