Group and Anti-group Phenomena as a Parallel Process between Psychotherapy and Supervisory Group

Abstract

The article focuses on the concept of parallel process between psychotherapy and supervisory group. There is an overview of relevant theoretical articles on the issue. The author explores the parallel between the constructive group process and the development of the anti-group phenomena in therapy and supervisory groups. Some of the phenomena and psychological processes that occur in the psychotherapy group between the group leader and his or her members of the group is brought in and repeated in the su­pervisory group between the supervisor and the supervisees. Identifying and experiencing the supervisor in the here-and-now situation when intervening in similar problems as occur in groups with patients might be compared to the corrective emotional experience for patients. So the process can be turned constructively or destructively both ways. In the case of an anti-supervisory process, the role and action of the supervisor is crucial. The author suggests some possible determinants of the anti-group phenomena of the supervisory process.