Supervision Practice: this practice is the core content of this experience-focussed programme.
Supervision of Supervision: students undergo regular one-to-one supervision of their supervisory practice with a recognised practitioner whose practice and supervision is based on their own very extensive engagement in their own psychoanalysis. Based on these meetings, the individual supervisor of supervisory practice will be asked to submit a report on the work and indicate if they can say that the supervisee's supervision is psychoanalytic. It may be agreeable to the student's existing supervisor of practice to include the 12 sessions in their arrangement for work. In other words, for at least 12 meetings the supervision would be occupied by the supervisee's supervisory practice. There will also be 6 small group supervision meetings where the students will speak about their supervisory work. A report will also be submitted by the supervisor leading the small group supervision. The small group supervisor will also indicate if they can say that the supervisee's supervision is psychoanalytic.
Supervision and the Freudian Unconscious: a theoretical discussion of the practice of supervision in the Freudian field. The format will be a participative seminar. Use will be made of material from the literature relevant to the discussion of supervisory practice.
Clinical Supervision Paper: students submit a 5,000-word paper in late July. This paper will be read by two readers who are psychoanalytic practitioners and supervisors. They will assess if the paper is written by a practitioner whose supervisory work is psychoanalytic in the sense of being based on the practitioner's own extensive engagement in their own psychoanalysis and on the psychoanalytic discourse as launched by Sigmund Freud and elaborated by Jacques Lacan and those that follow their principles.