Dr. Marc Lubin and Dr. Jed Yalof invite future and current therapists, counselors, and their supervisors to construct ways to achieve a more extensive and effective self-awareness and develop a "self-supervisory self" for a deeper and more informed clinical practice. Grounded in psychoanalytic supervision literature, Self Supervision: Psychodynamic Strategies uses a vignette-based and instructional format to outline a clear theory and framework for teaching, learning, and strengthening one's reflective self-supervision skills. Lubin and Yalof address how to create and sustain settings conducive to self-supervision; multiple approaches to gathering critical data including note-taking, recall, and use of technology; recognizing and addressing resistance to self-supervision; and exemplars, practical tools, processes, and routines for self-reflection and incorporation of what has been learned into future sessions. Through this approach to self-supervision, therapists will unlock and articulate inner observations, gain self-awareness before, during, and after client sessions, and arrive at greater clarity about their patients.
About the Author: Marc Lubin, PhD, is full professor at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Irvine, California, with over fifty years' experience teaching and supervising psychotherapists as well as doctoral students. Previously, Dr. Lubin served as the first faculty chair and campus dean at the Illinois School of Professional Psychology in Chicago, where he taught psychoanalytic psychotherapy to clinical psychology doctoral students while maintaining a private practice in individual psychotherapy and consultation. Throughout his training and practice, Dr. Lubin has benefited from consistent individual and group consultation from an array of respected psychoanalysts, including Howard Bacal, MD, Bruno Bettelheim, PhD, Erik Erikson, Merton Gill, MD, and Robert Langs, MD, and Arnold Goldberg, MD, as well as many senior analytically oriented supervisors at the Austen Riggs Center. Additionally, Dr. Lubin has actively engage in self supervision throughout his clinical career working with a wide range of individual patients. This book captures several decades of Dr. Lubin's own experience of fostering therapists' self awareness in therapeutic work as well as his own processes of self supervision through teaching, practice, training and supervising. Jed Yalof, PsyD, is a training and supervising and training analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, and professor emeritus at Immaculata University, where he served as chair of the Department of Psychology and Counseling and director of the PsyD Program in Clinical Psychology for thirty years. Prior to that, he was the director of college counseling and testing services. He is in private practice in Haverford, Pennsylvania, and specializes in psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, personality testing, educational evaluations, and neuropsychological assessment. Yalof also serves as the staff neuropsychologist at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Yalof authored Training and Teaching the Mental Health Professional; co-authored, with Drs. David Downing and Marc Lubin, Teaching, Training, and Administration in Graduate Psychology Programs: A Psychoanalytic Perspective; and co-edited, with Dr. Anthony and Dr. Bram of Psychoanalytic Assessment, Applications for Different Settings.