A wonderfully informed, immensely informative, robustly innovative, grandly generative, and exquisitely elaborated vision of psychodynamic/psychoanalytic self-supervision. An absolute must-read for reflective practitioners, trainers, and supervisors alike!

C. Edward Watkins, Jr., University of North Texas

Effective psychotherapy rests upon competent self-supervision. In Self-Supervision: Psychodynamic Strategies, Lubin and Yalof train therapists from the novice to the advanced to rigorously examine themselves and their own work to realize the full potential of psychodynamic treatment. Rich in clinical examples, this text is the most authoritative and comprehensive book on this topic to date.

Virginia M. Brabender, Institute for Graduate Clinical Psychology, Widener University

Self-supervision is the most common form of therapy supervision and the authors underscore its importance. The authors review and discuss every aspect of this process with a focus on helping clinicians who have little to no access to quality external supervision, but also show how self-supervision is a central aspect of continued growth as a therapist regardless of the circumstances. This is an original work and will make a significant contribution to the psychotherapy literature in general and to the psychodynamic literature specifically. It is relevant to practicing therapists and teachers and students of psychotherapy.

William H. Gottdiener, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York

Self-Supervision: Psychodynamic Strategies is a unique book that addresses something we rarely focus on in our field, and that is our reliance on ourselves when doing clinical work. Therapists are always carrying different internal representations of prior therapists, supervisors, professors, and/or attachment figures in our minds when we are interacting with patients. This book provides guidance on how to harness those internal voices by addressing post-session reflection, the use of mindfulness, exploring resistance, and identifying defenses as we explore clinical work independently. The authors do a wonderful job providing clinical examples, integrating diversity into their work, and even demonstrating how to assess self-supervision outcomes. This book is a great resource for clinicians practicing on their own as well as graduate trainees who are learning therapy for the first time.

Cheri Marmarosh, PhD, CGT, ABPP, George Washington University; licensed psychologist, Divine Mercy University; fellow of AGPA, Division 29 (Psychotherapy), and Division 49 (Group), APA; and editor, International Journal of Group Psychotherapy

With decades of experience as teachers, supervisors, and clinicians, Drs. Yalof and Lubin have written a superb book that turbo-charges the literature on self-supervision. Students, seasoned supervisors, and therapists alike will treasure this highly accessible and exceedingly practical guide to developing, nurturing, and listening to our internal self-supervisor. The writing style and format are clear and concise; the authors make complex concepts lucid, with a minimum of jargon; and most importantly, Yalof and Lubin offer readers a compact instructional handbook on how to teach and develop self-reflective and self-monitoring skills applicable in a broad range of settings and practices. A rare gem!

James Kleiger, PsyD, ABPP, ABAP, independent practice, Bethesda, MD