ABSTRACT
Supervision is indicated and in many cases indispensable everywhere that people work with people and where relationships between people are an essential part of the work. The clients of psychoanalytic social work are most of them people suffering from severe mental and emotional conditions such as near psychosis and psychotic, narcissistic, or traumatic illnesses and disorders. Scenic understanding enables a broadened understanding of the psychoanalytic process. From the supervision of psychoanalytic treatments Engelbrecht, for instance, describes “how the psychoanalytic situation is enacted in the supervision”, how the analytic situation being presented is relived in the supervision session. The contribution of such supervision supports a relationship-orientated form of social work of great value. The social worker often needs supervision in order to reach an understanding of the scene. Supervision is expected to give counselling on complex tasks in human resources, institutional infrastructure, and communication in organisations.
