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Cultural Reflexivity in Transactional Analysis Supervision

Pages 152-166
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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The author reviews the literature on supervision and the use of autoethnography as a research method. On this basis she then explores her own ideas for improving cultural reflexivity within models of supervision, with a particular focus on transactional analysis. She suggests that supervisory practice could be enhanced by being aware of the elliptical spaces between personal identity and the professional role, between supervisor and supervisee, and between both individuals and their cultural worlds. Transactional analysis, with its focus on cocreated interactions, offers an opportunity for mutual reflexivity and the application of this elliptical approach.

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Salma Siddique

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Salma Siddique, PhD, is the Director for Counselling and Psychotherapy in the School of Education at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. She obtained her doctorate in anthropology from the University of St. Andrews and later qualified as a psychotherapist (currently a Provisional Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst–psychotherapy) and clinical supervisor. Her main research interests are based on the dialogue between psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and anthropology and are influenced by her clinical experience working with people in trauma resulting from torture and fleeing conflict zones. Salma continues to practice as a volunteer psychotherapist. She supervises trainees and qualified psychotherapists and counselors in their practices. This article is based on work submitted for the master’s of science degree in professional supervision awarded by the Berne Institute and Middlesex University. The author wishes to express her thanks and appreciation to the Transactional Analysis Professional Practice (TAPPS) supervision group and to Pietro Cardile, CTA-P; Patricia Lyon, CTA-P; Juanita Husbands; Anne Gaijmans, CTA-C; Janet Mowat; and Margaret McGowan. She also thanks Sarah Ellis, Joyce Michie, and Marion Hurry for their mystical administrative support and TAMAG editor Alison Bird for her encouragement to pick up a pen and write again. She also acknowledges the ongoing support from D. C. and C. S. Degenhardt. Salma Siddique can be reached at School of Education, University of Aberdeen, MacRobert Building, King’s College, Aberdeen AB24 5UA, Scotland; email: .
 

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