Three Associating: Adventures in Relational Psychoanalytic Supervision

Episode 3: Erotic Countertransference: The Taboo of Being Turned On


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In this episode, Rachael approaches the taboo of sexual attraction in therapy and its tendency to lead to dysregulation, involuntary self-disclosure, and shame. 


Rachael's feelings unduly amplify her self-consciousness, complicating the ongoing therapeutic task of understanding her and her patient's contribution to the co-construction of their relational field.


After engaging Rachael in a discussion of the reality/fantasy divide and the difference between voluntary and involuntary self disclosure, Gill invites a recourse to theory both as a stabilising force in the choppy waters of the embodied and as a way of retaining the boundaries of supervision versus therapy.

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

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