This one-day supervision course is the second of a series of online supervision courses, organised by the Danish Society for Analytical Psychology in cooperation with the Jung Institute, Copenhagen. Each time, we will invite a well-known international Jungian supervisor who will give a lecture and lead a master-class. I n addition to this, there will twice during the day be breakout groups with supervision of supervision, led by experienced Jungian supervisors, and with 5 – 7 participants in each group. Participants are asked to bring cases for the breakout groups and the master-class. The supervision can be from both individual and group supervisory work. We welcome participants from Denmark, from the other Nordic countries, from Eastern and Central Europe and from other countries abroad who are trained as psychotherapists and/or Jungian psychoanalysts and have worked in clinical practice for at least three years. We welcome also those therapists and analysts who have begun to supervise and would like to learn more.
This paper looks at the inevitable, as well as the avoidable, mistakes and enactments we find ourselves experiencing during the course of supervision as both supervisor and supervisee. Work at depth often involves allowing ourselves to be drawn into the patient’s psychodrama by re-constellating the relational dynamics in the clinical encounter which the patient needs to re-live and re-dress. Winnicott (1974) warns, the analyst must unconsciously fail the patient and unwittingly contribute to the production of an actual micro-trauma in the here-and-now so that an earlier trauma can be experienced in the transference where the suffering is shared, mourned and worked through. Using clinical examples, this paper looks at how mishaps and misdemeanours occur, considers which can be prevented, which are inevitable and how to survive them. Participants are encouraged to think of examples of mishaps and misdemeanours that have surfaced in their clinical practice to bring to supervision later in the day.