Some considerations on supervision in psychoanalytical training, Jorge Canestri

This paper about supervision and its role in the training of psychoanalysts emphasizes the need for a historical-critical examination of the concept in psychoanalysis. It also theorizes that the object and method of supervision are determined according to the delimitation of a field of variable size, conditioned by the vertex chosen in function of the theory and the goal. Planning a conceptual link between 'therapy' and 'teaching' also seems to be a necessary condition to avoid the theoretical void of supervision. The literature of recent years appears to be oriented in this direction: for example, the concepts of parallel process, of analogon between supervision and analysis, and of the 'psychoanalysis of a psychoanalysis'. The complexity of the field of supervision and the work of the supervisor suggests the convenience of offering to the latter a specialized training that until now has been non-existent in the majority of institutes of psychoanalysis.