1st Edition

Vision and Supervision Jungian and Post-Jungian Perspectives

Edited By Dale Mathers Copyright 2009
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

Supervision in analytical psychology is a topic that until recently has been largely neglected. Vision and Supervision draws on archetypal, classical, and developmental Post-Jungian theory to explore supervision from a variety of different avenues. Supervision is a critical issue for therapists in many training programmes. Quality of training and of therapeutic treatment is paramount, and... Read more

Stein, Foreword. D. Mathers, Introduction. Part I: Strange Effects at Boundaries. Stokes, Boundaries: Separation, Merger, Mutuality. Palmer-Barnes, Ethics. D. Mathers, Difficult Patients. Part II: Individuation. Stone, Individuation. Bierschenk, The Spirit of Enquiry. C. Mathers, Mind the Gap: The Symbolic Container, Dreams and Transformation. Wainwright, Representation, Evocation and Witness: Clinical Scenes and Styles of Presentation. Part III: The Collective. Bamber, Working with Organisations. Maitra, Multicultural Perspectives. Heuer, Spooky Action at Distance: Parallel Process in Jungian Analysis and Supervision. Hall, Afterword.

Biography

Dale Mathers is a Jungian Analyst in private practice. He teaches analytical psychology in the UK and Europe and directed the Student Counselling Service at the London School of Economics. He is a Professional Member of the Association of Jungian Analysts.

"In this book a group of experienced practitioners re-vision the core elements of supervision practice. In doing so they inevitably till soil that has been well worked by others, but create through this process interesting newly ploughed furrows. Despite some opaqueness in places in the textual style, the book is sensitively written in a spirit of enquiry and contributes towards the individuation process in supervision." - Edward Martin, Journal of Analytical Psychology, Vol. 54, No. 4, 2009