Three Associating: Adventures in Relational Psychoanalytic Supervision

Episode 2: Us Vs Them Thinking - A Silent Threat To Your Mental Health


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In this episode, Andrew struggles with the power of splitting and projection as they close down thought, generate anger, and diminish compassion.


He gets caught in these dynamics and struggles with his own reactivity as anger and defensive intellectualisation  masquerading as thinking emerge in the therapy space.


Through supervision, Andrew realises the fear and existential threat that underpins these dynamics. He moves from a wish to confront binaries and from an appeal to both/and thinking to understanding the feelings underpinning either/or thinking, projection, and othering.


Andrew comes to see how his own responses have been subverted by this extremely pressuring dynamic and returns to the capacity to go meta to himself and to the transference/counter-transference matrix

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Three Associating: Adventures in Relational Psychoanalytic SupervisionBy Gill Straker, Rachael Burton, Andrew Geeves

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