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(2003). Contemporary Psychoanalysis, 39:711-717

The Relational Turn in Psychoanalytic Supervision: A Review of The Supervisory Relationship: A Contemporary Psychodynamic Approach by Mary Gail Frawley-O'Dea, Ph.D. and Joan Sarnat Ph.D. New York: Guilford Press, 247 pp.

Review by: Roy Barsness, Ph.D.

IN AN EXCELLENT WORK, essential for anyone who supervises, is supervised, or teaches a course on supervision, Frawley-O'Dea and Sarnat suggest a language for thinking about our supervisory relationships, challenge our underlying assumptions, and offer a well-defined structure to this unique analytic relationship.

The book was a gift to me from a former supervisee. Our work had a tenuous beginning. The supervisee was doubtful and wondering if I would be someone available, safe, and authentic enough for her to present her work. But as we submitted to the task of understanding her patients from within our own relational experience, an understanding of the therapeutic and supervisory relationship was enhanced. The book was given to me with the following text underlined:

the supervisory relationship can allow the supervisee to gain a deeper understanding of the treatment method being taught [as they] work together to co-construct, mutually derive, and negotiate meanings that elucida

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