[Supervision of clinical staff : a few elements of conceptualization.]

Supervision is of considerable importance in the institutional context in view of the extensive clinical material absorbed by the clinicians. It is possible for the supervisor, endowes with certain fundamental qualities, to provide the clinician, through a definite method, with the tools necessary to give meaning to the sometimes difficult reality he has to live with. In this sense, the present article constitutes an attempt to conceptualize the process of supervision and proposes a procedure which would make this exercice a training tool rather than a simple inter-disciplinary cooperation. The ultimate aim of this endeavour is to give back to the clinician the entire responsibility of the comprehensive process of the event. It is therefore an effort to lessen the dépendance created by critical situations.