Am J Psychiatry 1988; 145:796-803
Copyright © 1988 by American Psychiatric Association
Supervision and privacy in psychotherapy training
RW Betcher and NE Zinberg
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Supervision is an essential element of training in psychotherapy, and the
issue of privacy in relation to the supervisory process is an important
one. The authors examine the attitude toward privacy implicit in each of
the two major models of supervision, the so-called didactic and
countertransference models. They consider the ways in which supervision,
particularly the countertransference model, and the use of audiovisual
devices intrude on the privacy of the therapist and the therapy. Finally,
they consider how the institutional and professional structures within
which supervision takes place deal with the issue of privacy.
