IJSP Number 3, 2021

SUPERVISION IN PSYCHOTHERAPY – A RELATIONAL PERSPECTIVE COICICI Andreea-Rodica 1 1 Medicis Clinics Timisoara, Romania Emails : andre.ardelean@gmail.com Abstract Supervision in psychotherapy can become a possibility to heal using the meeting, and at the same time offer support and reparation to the supervisory relationship. Supervision is interpersonal and dynamic, it involves discovery and co-creation of a relationship. But what is relational supervision, how do its components inter-connect and inter-relate? What framework is used? What are parallel processes and pseudo-parallel processes and how do these influence the relation. These are some of the questions answered in this analysis, along with other relational characteristics of the supervisory process. Keywords: relational supervision, supervisory relationship, client-therapist- supervisor triad, therapist’s blind spots. 1. SUPERVISION IN PSYCHOTHERAPY As in the case of psychotherapy, supervision has the possibility of “healing through encounter”, and can have a supportive and reparative dimension through the very supervisory relationship. This view of supervision is widely presented by P. Gilbert in his book Psychotherapy Supervision , based on the theory of intersubjective reality [1], which focuses on the “field of interaction” between two people, questioning the old myth of the therapist’s “isolated mind”, therapist who is an impartial observer of the client’s dynamics. According to this vision, supervision: • is always interpersonal; • assumes a systemic perspective; • involves a process of discovery rather than a search for the exact truth or as accurately as possible; • involves an immersion in the process and in relational dynamics, then a detachment as an observer;