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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.

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