ABSTRACT
With respect to privacy, the ideal ground rule states that supervision is an entirely private matter between the supervisor and supervisee. There is, then, no access to the supervisory experience by any other person — be it the supervised patient, an officer or committee member of a training program, peers of the supervisee, or readers of professional and other papers and books. The ground rule of total confidentiality is a complement to the rule of total privacy. Supervision is an emotionally charged teaching and learning experience in which the supervisee reveals much of his inner mind and soul, conscious and unconscious, and within which, as noted, unconscious experience. One of the more common violations of privacy—and of relative anonymity as well—is the use of an office at the location where a supervisor lives, whether in a house or apartment, and with or without a separate entrance for the supervisor's office.
