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Supervision in a Changing World: Reflections from Child Psychotherapy

Editor : Deirdre Dowling, Editor : Julie Kitchener

Reviews and Endorsements

This book is a breath of fresh air that blows through dusty institutionalised psychoanalytic corridors, cleansing them of sectarian dogma and theoretical driftwood. This collection of essays is independent thinking at its best; it is a real eye (and heart) opener. It might be a cliché, but it is true nevertheless: it needs to be read by every supervisor, and more importantly, by every psychoanalytic training institution.
Farhad Dalal, Psychotherapist and Group Analyst UK; Director of Training, Group Analysis India, Bengaluru

Working therapeutically can at times be daunting for even the most experienced practitioners when we are faced with unthinkable trauma and psychic pain experienced by the children and families we work with. Yet good supervision makes it possible. Here some of the most respected child psychotherapists of their time with decades of clinical experience, show how supervision can be transformational in guiding practitioners in their work, helping to hold and think about difficulty whilst enabling them to find their own voice in their therapeutic practice. This assembly of carefully curated wisdom is a much needed addition to our reading and thinking.
Jane O’Rourke, Psychodynamic Child, Adolescent and Family Psychotherapist, and Founder of MINDinMIND

This very welcome volume from the independent psychoanalytic child and adolescent psychotherapy tradition is long overdue. It covers different aspects of clinical supervision in a variety of settings and brings many of the tensions that supervisors, practitioners and trainees grapple with, in an engaging way. The supervisory superego is one that is inevitably ubiquitous but the papers in this collection address the contradictory task faced in the supervisory process, of transmission of the psychoanalytic tradition at the same time as facilitating the clinician to use their own creativity in their learning and development. It is to be recommended to supervisors and trainees alike.
Angela Joyce, Fellow of the BPAS; Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst of Adults and Children