IJSP Number 2, 2020

56 to their essential role in personal and professional growth. Specific needs thus result: identifying relationship ruptures, repairing ruptures, managing transfer- countertransfer situations, the ability to identify and handle parallel processes and so on. The communication skill is of extreme importance, as it is essential to know when the right moment for insight has come, as well as the manner in which to communicate so as to induce the desired insight, without ever forgetting that supervision is a process of personal growth and development. The relationship is a dynamic process implying reciprocal influences. The elementary rule in psychotherapy and supervision is that this influencing process must proceed from the therapist towards the client, and from the supervisor towards the supervisee, and not the other way around, as it is the expert’s role to provide the corrective experience. Just as in supervision, the therapeutic relationship developed with the client inside a secure attachment framework should inspire the client to understand and abandon old maladaptive patterns (fears, repressed desires, defensive strategies, motivations, etc.), so as, afterwards, under careful therapist guidance, to internalise the new adaptative pattern. Hence the interpretations resulted during therapy sessions continue to influence the client’s angle of perception and the manner in which one reacts to own life experience. Personal evolution always appears when the client feels safe inside the therapeutic relationship, as this interpersonal connection differs from past relationships since the therapist offers a different relationship pattern that the client learns to apply in everyday life experiences outside the office. Obviously moments of tension can appear in this relationship and these may lead to ruptures. In psychotherapy and supervision such moments represent indicators to solving issues and have the role of facilitating revelatory insights. This process, however, is only possible if efforts are undertaken to repair the relationship. According to specialists’ opinion, the relationship can be repaired by identifying and reflecting upon those elements that imply transfer, counter-transfer, power triangles, parallel processes and enactments that generate unease. The latter often being constructive and necessary as long as the supervisor or the therapist realise the chance for insight and undertake the process of analysing the relationship rupture. 2. HISTRIONIC PERSONALITY PATTERS Personality is defined in connection to a pattern of traits, attitudes, preoccupations and visible manifestations in the individual reaction manner to one’s life experiences, and with an influence on one’s way of being in relation to oneself and to the others (the way of thinking, feeling, relating and acting). A well balanced personality makes a functional individual capable of adapting easily to life’s challenges, with the capacity to grow and evolve on a personal, professional