Supervision between rituals, creativity and development of the reflective function.

This article describes the supervision experience of a group-analytic therapy for psychotic patients from 2000 to 2003 at the mental health centre of Carpi, Modena, Italy. The experience of supervision is presented here in its main aspects and as a tool to promote a so called reflective function of the couple supervisor- supervisee. The reflective function is described in its meaning of com-prehension from (the Latin word com-prehendere, to acquire knowledge and also to hold into affection), referring to an on going process of mutual exchange and understanding between supervisor and supervisee. According to our hypothesis the reflective function that develops inside the supervision process mirrors the reflective function of the therapeutic work and in this context research can play a stimulating role. In this paper we will make some considerations about the supervision and we will describe an attempt to combine classical supervision to evaluation work. Supervision is considered as a transgenerational transmission, where both supervisor and supervisee participate in an exchange that takes place between transmission of culture and innovation. Supervision reflective function training process transgenerational process and meter of time.