Group Supervision and the Influence of Culture

Editor : Margaret Smith

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Publisher : Routledge
Published : December 2025
Cover : Paperback
Pages : 216
Category :
Forthcoming
Category 2 :
Group Psychotherapy
Catalogue No : 98326
ISBN 13 : 9781032719054
ISBN 10 : 1032719052

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Group Supervision and the Influence of Culture explores key themes in group analytic supervision, highlighting the value of thinking that encompasses different perspectives.

In this book experienced group supervisors draw on their professional experiences from working with trauma, cross-cultural supervision, racism and shame. Part one explores unconscious processes: part two, working with difference; and the training of supervisors of groups is covered in part three. Part four focuses on managing endings and learning from research about how to maximise the benefits of group supervision. Part five explores ethics from a relational perspective, recognising that supervisory ethical practice is influenced by the culture of the day.

Group Supervision and the Influence of Culture will be essential reading for anyone providing group supervision, particularly therapists, counsellors, therapists, social workers, probation officers and healthcare staff who provide or receive group supervision. It will be an essential reference for trainees in group analytic supervision.

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An understanding of the complexity and of the creative and destructive power of the group lies at the heart of group analytic therapy and supervision. Whilst the setting and the boundaries of groupwork tend to remain relatively unchanged, the content and the outcome of practice is often surprising, often unexpected and arguably always new and different, emerging as it does from each new group. This book, the second in a series of three, brings that newness into clear focus. Fifteen writers provide a wealth of experience, knowledge and expertise. The reader is offered a kaleidoscopic view of current thinking and practice which is up to date, of the moment. The fifteen chapters are usefully grouped into four sections: Unconscious Processes, Working with Difference, Training Issues and Professional Issues. The lens through which the work of group supervision is viewed is specific to particular settings or areas of interest; the focus of the writing ranges from vivid vignettes of clinical practice to sophisticated and clearly argued theoretical positions. The multiple perspectives offered provide the reader with a wide-ranging view of analytic group supervision which will surely aid anyone involved in or thinking about being involved the demanding and ultimately highly rewarding task of working as a supervisor of a group.
Leonie Hilliard, Group Analyst, Training Group Analyst and Director of the Group Analytic Supervision Training at the Institute of Group Analysis, London

When I read this book, it seemed to me that built in to it’s culture, indeed in its very warp, is the sense of curiosity, mutuality, and reciprocity; for this to be the aim for the supervisor, for those seeking supervision, and for the “group as a whole”. The chapters here, each has their own unique culture, and together they chart ways to openness. They make it safe to say the shameful. The supervision group takes place in the liminal space; where members can stay with moments of not knowing; analysing and accepting negative transference, ruptures and stuck-ness; and addressing the “anti-group”. The book offered me space to think about and perhaps, help solve long held riddles from my own early groups, family, training and own therapy. After reading this book, I believe I’m more confident, and competent, to help create a culture, in my present groups, that embraces other members own unique and diverse cultures; colonialism and ethnicity, holding in mind psychotherapy’s western heritage. Reading this book also encourages me to rise to the challenge, post Covid, of working both in person and online.
Roger Lloyd, Chair of British Association of Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Supervision (BAPPS)

Acknowledgements
List of contributors
Introduction

Part I - Unconscious Processes in Group Supervision
1. Perturbations & Parallel Process in Group Supervision
Howard Edmonds

2. Towards A Group Analytic Model of Supervision: The Matrix and Reverie in Group Supervision
Patrick Gannon

3. Narcissistic Investment as an Anti - group Phenomenon
Fiona Pope

4. Dreams and Supervision
Amelie Noack

Part II - Working with Difference in Group Supervision
5. Cross-Cultural Supervision
Elisabeth Rohr

6. Working with Differences in Mind
Marina Gaspodini

7. EMDR and Art Psychotherapy Group Supervision
Lee Anna Simmons

Part III - Training and Group Supervision
8. Warp and weft: a free-flowing discussion-based model of group-analytic supervision for psychotherapy trainees
Joanna Skowronska

9. Cultural sensitivity and training for supervisors of groups
Margaret Smith

10. The supervision group as a liminal space
Maddy Loat

Part IV - Professional Issues in Group Supervision
11. Some thoughts on Planned and Unplanned Endings
Margaret Gallop

12. How can Research Inform Group Supervision Practice?
Aisling McMahon

13. Using the Group as the Medium of Supervision
Amelie Noack

Part V - Ethics and Supervision
14. Is group supervision ethical?
Frances Griffiths

15. Group supervision, ethics and the influence of culture
Margaret Smith

About the Editor(s)

Margaret Smith is a psychodynamic psychotherapist and group analyst working in private practice with a special interest in group supervision. She is 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).

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