Should We Rethink Supervision?

Abstract

Supervision as such has been the subject of great interest, and there were many arguments to support it; most of that talk being conducted in the strict frames of psychology and psychotherapy. Considering this and the fact that, as other fields of science, psychology has its own limitations (due to some self-imposed boundaries), we believe that a brief discursive exploration must be undertaken, at least from an anthropological perspective. It is also to envisage that the problem of supervising psychology or psychotherapy should also be considered from an ethical point of view to enhance a general epistemological perspective. Additionally, one cannot forget that the psychologist, the psychotherapist, and the supervisor are and live, as well as other people, in that mainstream of humanity that encompasses all of us. Such a living and existence certainly occurs with some indelible idiosyncrasies that we will attempt to unravel these in our article. Moreover, we could have – even at the level of psychologists or psychotherapists – some unresolved psychological issues, most of them due to the closed academic environment they live and work in.