Supervision as an analytic experience

This paper explores Solnit's idea that supervision is more than teaching and less than treatment. Advances in our understanding of the analytic process are applied to the supervisory process. With the help of a vignette, the uses of transference regression and parallel processes are examined as part of an analytic experience which facilitates the supervisee's own analysis. Baudry's ideas are used as a point of departure to suggest further guidelines for supervision based on the goal of enhancing the supervisee's analytic identity. Possible difficulties with our theoretical assumptions about supervision are briefly discussed.