Articles about Supervision

Therapists can benefit both personally and professionally by engaging in counseling themselves.

A glimpse of a therapy session; specifically inner child work with art therapy and body oriented psychotherapy.

Should psychoanalysis be recommended in old age?

What is it that promotes change in us? In my experience, being an analyst involves being consistently there, week after week, year after year, ploughing the field of list...

Although we can never entirely disentangle experience from its underpinnings in self-representation, we can bring mindful awareness to how we think of ourselves and becom...

What are the core competencies that form and inform the conducting of a relational psychoanalysis?

What if anything distinguishes analytic work from other psychotherapeutic treatments.

I received a call from a businessman about his 14-year-old son. It was urgent... Otherwise emotionally engaged individuals may exhibit a flatness of expression where thei...

Our choice of psychoanalytic paradigm can serve to either conserve the limited human resources available to address a variety of situations encountered, or reify the para...

I have found that clinical work undertaken when Meltzer’s aesthetic conflict spontaneously rises to the foreground as a compass inevitably shares the poetic and dramatic ...

Patrick Casement; beloved mentor, teacher, supervisor, and influencer of psychoanalytic clinicians worldwide, shares some of the thoughts engaged in his latest book.

A young female patient who struggles with fears of being controlled reluctantly agrees to psychoanalysis