IJSP Number 1, 2019

39 Contact of any kind with these individuals, who one way or another can arrive in the therapist’s private office, can have real risks, sometimes fatal. Because of this, the psychological profile of such cases with a dangerous potential, and the grossness of the respective disorders must be known and recognised by the therapists who work with such persons, in order to revert the danger to which the therapist can be exposed. J. Reid Meloy & James A. Reavis [14], draw attention on the existence of an illusion of a therapeutic alliance with these clients/patients considered to be a mix of „clinician’s desires projections” with the ability to imitate of the patient, named by Meloy (1988) „malignant pseudo identification” [15]. He suggests that such therapeutic alliance must be seen with scepticism, the more severe the client pathology is. Bursten (1973) describes for the patients with psychopathy a behaviour which „deceives successfully the other person and then feels a disrespectable satisfaction” and he calls this behaviour „a manipulative cycle” [16]. The countertransfer lived by the therapist can take various forms, from the therapeutic nihilism until the sexual fascination, passing through hate and desire of destroy, deception and guilt according to the authors: Lion [17], Symington [18], Strasburger [19], Meloy [15], [20] and Gabbard [21]. That is why, Meloy and Reavis [14] draw attention to the countertransfer phenomenon, to which the therapist must pay attention and also to the fact that in reality, psychopathy is an immutable feature and that the entire responsibility of the treatment must consciously be assumed by the clinician, as the psychopath will always consider he/she doesn’t have any responsibility. [14] 5. THE ROLE OF SUPERVISION IN THE CORRECT MANAGEMENT OF THE THERAPEUTIC RELATION. PREVENTING AND SOLVING THE BREAKING OF THE THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIP For inexperienced therapists, understanding the importance of essential factors for the therapeutic process represents a key-element in their professional training. By all means, the connection to the client (maintaining and developing this connection) represents a goal and, in the same time, one of the factors the therapist in the initial training is necessary to focus on, to know its importance and role and to gain the necessary skills for a correct management. In this circumstance, supervision comes as a necessary and valuable aid. It is also „a unique practice of gaining the therapeutic aptitudes” [22]. The relationship between the beginner therapist and his/her supervisor is, in its turn, the symbol of the therapeutic relation. Similar to the relationship which develops between the parental figure and the child and which reflects in his/her further relations, the relationship of the therapist with his/her supervisor reflects in