About the relation between the request for supervision and the structure and process of social organization. Results of a single case study

Journal/Book: Gruppenpsychother Gruppendyn. 1998; 34: Theaterstrasse 13, Postfach 77, W-37070 Gottingen, Germany. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. 199-237.

Abstract: It is shown in a single case-study that the request for supervision implicates a double-bind similar to the structure of symptom-formation. It is recommended to conceive the request for supervision as a symptom in which real and serious causes and unsolved latent conflicts in the management of the organization is expressed in a condensed way. If the supervisor does not analyse the request for supervision he takes unconsciousely the risk to take over the role of a vicarious management function and gets involved in a serious paradoxon: on the one hand he surpasses the barriers of his professional role, on the other hand he is subjected to the barriers that are connected with the unsolved conflicts in the leadership of the organization.

Note: Review Barde B, Sigmund Freud Inst Psychoanal, Myliusstr 20, D-60323 Frankfurt, GERMANY

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