Margaret Smith is a retired psychodynamic psychotherapist and group analyst working in private practice with a special interest in group supervision. She was an independent member of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP), a Member of the Institute of Group Analysis (IGA) and British Association for Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Supervision (BAPPS) until 2023.

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About the Authors

Introduction

Part 1. Unconscious Processes in Group Supervision

Chapter 1. Perturbations, Glitches and Glimpses in Group Supervision

Howard Edmunds

Chapter 2. Towards a Group Analytic Model of Supervision: The Matrix and Reverie in Group Supervision

Patrick Gannon

Chapter 3. Narcissistic Investment as an Anti-Group Phenomenon

Fiona Pope

Chapter 4. Dreams and Supervision

Amelie Noack

Part 2. Working with Difference in Group Supervision

Chapter 5. Cross-Cultural Issues in Supervision

Elisabeth Rohr

Chapter 6. Working with Differences in Mind: An Experience of Group Supervision Training

Marina Gaspodini

Chapter 7. EMDR and Art Psychotherapy Group Supervision

Lee Anna Simmons

Part 3. Training and Group Supervision

Chapter 8. Warp and Weft: A Free-Flowing Discussion-Based Model of Group-Analytic Supervision for Psychotherapy Trainees

Joanna Skowronska

Chapter 9. Cultural Sensitivity and Training for Supervisors of Groups

Margaret Smith

Chapter 10. The Supervision Group as a Liminal Space: Navigating Rites of Passage using the Clinical Hexagon

Maddy Loat

Part 4. Professional Issues in Group Supervision

Chapter 11. Some Thoughts on Planned and Unplanned Endings

Margaret Gallop

Chapter 12. Informing and Vitalising Group Supervision Practice: A Review of Research Evidence

Aisling McMahon

Chapter 13. Using the Group as the Medium of Supervision

Amelie Noack

Part 5. Ethics and Group Supervision

Chapter 14. Is Group Supervision Ethical?

Frances Griffiths

Chapter 15. Group Supervision, Ethics and the Influence of Culture

Margaret Smith