{"title":"Meaning and loss of meaning in supervision","authors":"Hanoch Yerushalmi","doi":"10.1111/bjp.12962","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>Analytic and philosophical literature suggests that repetitive failures to make sense of internal and external events can seriously undermine our inner meaning systems, leading to feelings of meaninglessness and despair. Accepting the absurdity of the wish for a completely predictable, understandable and manageable world relieves the despair and liberates us from clinging to generalizations and abstractions. It also encourages us to seek personal meanings of our evolving experiences and embrace the life we come to know. These insights are relevant for the supervisory process that helps the supervisee construct an inner clinical meaning system. Repeated failures to understand clinical situations can undermine the supervisee's clinical meaning system, leading to feelings of meaninglessness and despair in their professional life. Accepting the absurdity of wishing for an entirely predictable and understandable therapeutic world can liberate the supervisee from clinging to clinical generalizations and abstractions. It also encourages the supervisee to search for personal and authentic meanings of therapeutic experiences. The supervisor can promote acceptance of this absurdity by highlighting three components of the supervisory materials: metaphorical language, movement and process and embodied experiences.</p>","PeriodicalId":54130,"journal":{"name":"British Journal of Psychotherapy","volume":"41 3","pages":"416-431"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2025-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjp.12962","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"British Journal of Psychotherapy","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjp.12962","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"PSYCHIATRY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Analytic and philosophical literature suggests that repetitive failures to make sense of internal and external events can seriously undermine our inner meaning systems, leading to feelings of meaninglessness and despair. Accepting the absurdity of the wish for a completely predictable, understandable and manageable world relieves the despair and liberates us from clinging to generalizations and abstractions. It also encourages us to seek personal meanings of our evolving experiences and embrace the life we come to know. These insights are relevant for the supervisory process that helps the supervisee construct an inner clinical meaning system. Repeated failures to understand clinical situations can undermine the supervisee's clinical meaning system, leading to feelings of meaninglessness and despair in their professional life. Accepting the absurdity of wishing for an entirely predictable and understandable therapeutic world can liberate the supervisee from clinging to clinical generalizations and abstractions. It also encourages the supervisee to search for personal and authentic meanings of therapeutic experiences. The supervisor can promote acceptance of this absurdity by highlighting three components of the supervisory materials: metaphorical language, movement and process and embodied experiences.
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The British Journal of Psychotherapy is a journal for psychoanalytic and Jungian-analytic thinkers, with a focus on both innovatory and everyday work on the unconscious in individual, group and institutional practice. As an analytic journal, it has long occupied a unique place in the field of psychotherapy journals with an Editorial Board drawn from a wide range of psychoanalytic, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, psychodynamic, and analytical psychology training organizations. As such, its psychoanalytic frame of reference is wide-ranging and includes all schools of analytic practice. Conscious that many clinicians do not work only in the consulting room, the Journal encourages dialogue between private practice and institutionally based practice. Recognizing that structures and dynamics in each environment differ, the Journal provides a forum for an exploration of their differing potentials and constraints. Mindful of significant change in the wider contemporary context for psychotherapy, and within a changing regulatory framework, the Journal seeks to represent current debate about this context.
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