Supervision in Gestalt Therapy: The Situational Perspective as an Antidote to Shame

Journal title QUADERNI DI GESTALT
Author/s Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb
Publishing Year 2024 Issue 2024/1
Language Italian Pages 24 P. 27-50 File size 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/qg2024-1oa17952
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This article draws on the various Gestalt studies on supervision, highlighting how each apply the principles of Gestalt psychotherapy. However, the humanistic turn that places the patient/therapist relationship in existential equality does not find clear application in the examples of Gestalt supervision, in the background of which the gap between those who know more and those who know less remains as the epistemological definition of the supervisory relationship. The author therefore proposes to revise the concept of supervision in Gestalt psychotherapy as a recognition of the therapeutic intentionality of the supervisee, within the phenomenological field co-created by supervisor and supervisee. In practice, the supervisor will apply this concept by shedding light on what the supervisee already knows about the patient, diagnostically, anamnesthetically, aesthetically, and relationally, and by supporting the intentionalities of both therapist and patient, which form the phenomenological field or supervisory situation. The author proposes at this point guidelines for how supervisors can actualise this perspective in clinical practice.

Keywords: ; Phenomenological field; Situational supervision; Recognition; Aesthetic Relational Knowledge; Humanistic psychotherapy

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Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb, La supervisione in psicoterapia della Gestalt: la prospettiva situazionale come antidoto contro la vergogna in "QUADERNI DI GESTALT" 1/2024, pp 27-50, DOI: 10.3280/qg2024-1oa17952