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Some reflections on empathy and reciprocity in the use of countertransference between supervisor and supervisee
Author(s) -
Astor James
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of analytical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.285
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1468-5922
pISSN - 0021-8774
DOI - 10.1111/1465-5922.00171
Subject(s) - supervisor , empathy , reciprocity (cultural anthropology) , countertransference , psychology , social psychology , context (archaeology) , meaning (existential) , epistemology , cognitive psychology , psychoanalysis , psychotherapist , philosophy , management , paleontology , economics , biology
Reciprocity refers in its general meaning to a mutual give and take. It is a background feature of all productive supervisory relationships. In this essay I want to bring it into the foreground. I will describe it by contrasting supervision and analysis. For, in my view, that is exactly what reciprocity is in the supervisory relationship: it is an attitude of mind in which the supervisor performs the task of differentiating internally the supervisory from the analytic vertex, in the context of the asymmetry of the supervisory relationship.