IJSP Number 7, 2025

International Journal of Supervision in Psychotherapy, Number 7, 2025 Page | 65 models which can be transposed in at least three or four directions: a) in therapy; b) in his own family, c) in the family of the client and, from there d) in their social circle. 2. It is needless to say that supervision is like a meta-positioning to the previous points. The supervisor has to verify and to conform the correctness of the process mentioned above. It is easy to understand that one can encounter difficulties on the road, it is not a very easy one. That is why there are supervisors; they control and check the very complex orbit of humanisation via the solid self and its continuous solidification, crystallisation and complexification. The supervisor has an even more complex task as the therapist. He/she has to look after the solidity of the therapist’s self for the best transmission of the main idea to the client, and, at the same time, to look for the solidity of one’s own self in order to be an example for the therapist in supervision. And, at the same time, to consider the solidity of one’s own family relations that will reflect back a constant feeling of solidness on the supervisor. What becomes evident here is a cascading effect that goes from the supervisor to the therapist, from this one to the client, and from there further into the social fabric we live in. In an idea of systemic circularity, we also have to take into account the upward movement of influences beginning with the social psychology of everyone that comes with it to the therapist that goes to the supervisor embedded in a social network. And, of course, we shouldn’t forget that on every step of this ladder we can find influences of both extremes: solid self versus pseudo-self , individuality or togetherness, man for himself or psychology of the masses. In other words: social psychology or personal development? REFERENCES 1. Kerr, M. E. (2019), Bowen Theory’s Secrets. Revealing the Hidden Life of Families , W. W. Norton & Company, New York, p. xxv, author’s underlining . 2. Piaget, J. (1998), La psychologie de l’intelligence, 7e édition, Armand Colin, Paris. 3. Kerr, M. E. (2019), Bowen Theory’s Secrets. Revealing the Hidden Life of Families , W. W. Norton & Company, New York, p. xxv . 4. Adler, A. (2009), Understanding Life , Oneworld Publication, London. 5. Sloman, S. and Fernbach, P. (2017), The Knowledge Illusion. Why We Never Think Alone , Riverhead Books, New York, p. 35. 6. Kerr, M. E. (2019), Bowen Theory’s Secrets. Revealing the Hidden Life of Families , W. W. Norton & Company, New York, p. xv . 7. Feyerabend, P. (2010), Against Method , Verso, New York, p. 15. 8. *** (2001), Encarta. Concise English Dictionary , Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., London, p. 1169. 9. Sloman, S. and Fernbach, P. (2017), The Knowledge Illusion. Why We Never Think Alone , Riverhead Books, New York, p. 35. 10. Bowen, M. (2004), Family Therapy in Clinical Practice , Aronson, Lanham. 11. Bowen, M. (2004), Family Therapy in Clinical Practice , Aronson, Lanham, p. 365. 12. Bowen, M. (2004), Family Therapy in Clinical Practice , Aronson, Lanham, p. 306. 13. Jung, C. G. (1997), Tipuri psihologice , trad. Nișcov, V., Humanitas, București, p. 515.