IJSP Number 3, 2021

91 Figure 1. Participant-observer schema in psychotherapy and supervision [5] From a developmental point of view, the perspective of the third person implies the integration of a new image of the child about himself, beyond his image in the mother’s eyes, namely his image in the father’s eyes, a significant second “other”. Thus, the child is no longer dependent on the mother’s exclusive mirroring, but realizes that he is part of a world full of “objects” of the interrelationing of which he depends. This is therefore a “plus” brought by supervision: a broader vision, an appreciation of the subject in a wider network, in a more complex behavioural system [6]. A situation encountered in supervision is that in which the therapist feels ashamed of an intervention or his own inner feelings. Being raised in a system in which this feeling dominates in the presence of criticism, shame may appear secondary to the internalization of certain beliefs. The supervisor can come up with “another (third) perspective”, helping the supervisee to reevaluate his work in terms of the current reality [7]. Meeting the supervisor means not only “increasing your view perspective”, but experiencing various positions, different angles, “points of view”. Also, in the supervision process both the supervisor’s objectivity and his subjectivity are important. Equally important is the unconscious process (especially when the supervisor has reached a certain level of professional training – a higher one), when the development needs no longer lie in the accumulation of information. This can be explored by taking into account the emotions that exist in the supervisor-therapist relationship, as well as in the therapist-client relationship (what is often called a “parallel process”). [8] These emotions often bring valuable information about things that cannot be communicated verbally and for which there is no clear narrative or awareness (memory, recollection) at that time. Another aspect to be explored, which is also related to the unconscious process, is the manifestation of “parallel processes”. In the supervisory relationship, built on three “pillars” (therapist, client and supervisor, who influence each other) there are interactions at the unconscious level, which at the manifest level are categorized as “unforeseen”. [9] When these are analyzed and interpreted, they bring an important addition to the therapeutic process in most cases.