Supervision in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

"This is a moving and courageous intersubjective account of a therapeutic journey. Both parties come through vividly in this authentic narrative, Diana in her reflections on the process and the client most notably through her letters, extracts of which are quoted in the text. I see this as an interesting navigation of a complex therapeutic process which proves to be transformative for the therapist and the client. I highly recommend this book which will prove of interest to beginning and experienced therapists coming from different orientations."-Professor Maria Gilbert, Faculty Head of Applied Psychology, Psychotherapy and Counselling, Metanoia Institute, London.

"Many books stop where this one begins: clearly expressing the many facets and phases, involved in an in-depth psychotherapy, the author offers an honest account of a challenging, painful and hopeful therapeutic journey. Locating the work within a relational framework with psychoanalytic supervision as central, the author describes how she gradually moved from a more traditional reparative form of therapy into a relational one. Remaining philosophical about her client’s belief in the important platform that the "corrective emotional experience" initially provided her, Shmukler, like many relational psychotherapists welcomes the additional depth and understanding that relational methodologies provide for working with and transforming primitive emotional states."-Heather Fowlie, Programme Leader of Relational Transactional Analysis Psychotherapy training and Faculty Head of Psychology, Psychotherapy and Counselling at Metanoia Institute, London.

"A courageous, deeply personal account of a psychotherapy that went from enactment to transformation. The story is told by the therapist and her client, with the containing murmur of the supervisor in the background. Clinical reflections thread throughout the narrative and the theoretical dimension is elegantly discussed in the final chapter. The book will be interesting and useful for any psychotherapist but for a transactional analyst it is particularly exciting: it forges an evolutionary path in TA’s methodology, from responding to relational need and working cognitively with the transference, to working in the transference – so that the effects of developmental trauma can emerge, be experienced and worked through within a real adult here-and-now relationship. What a gift. I read it at one sitting."-Professor Charlotte Sills-integrative psychotherapist and relational transactional analyst.