Supervision in Psychoanalysis

The São Paulo Seminars

This book originates from a series of clinical supervisions that were held at the Sao Paulo Institute of Psychoanalysis by Antonino Ferro. Supervision in Psychoanalysis: The Sao Paulo Seminars reproduces the dialogues in the seminars that followed these supervisions in their entirety.

The transcripts of eight supervised clinical sessions along with the author’s comments allows the reader to:

see the different styles of the presenting analysts first hand

understand the evaluation of Bion’s thinking as developed by the author

With detailed exposure of clinical sessions, their supervision and clarification of the theoretical model of the supervisor, this book will be of interest to psychologists, psychotherapists and psychoanalysts