11th July 2026 Lecture

Supervisor as Private Investigator - Christine Driver

Chaired by Roger Fife

To be held online from 10.00am to 12.00noon on Saturday 11th July 2026, by Zoom. Attendance is free of charge for all FPC members and will count as 2 hours CPD. The lecture will not be recorded. To book a place please email admin@thefpc.org.uk 

Being a supervisor requires taking on many roles – investigator, explorer, enabler, teacher, assessor and gate-keeper to name but a few.  But one aspect of being a supervisor entails the capacity and curiosity to investigate what is being presented. A supervisor, in the container of supervision, takes on the role of private investigator to explore, with the supervisee, the hidden, unconscious world and patterns of relating of the patient. In other words a supervisor, with the supervisee, is a private investigator into the inner world of the patient so as to understand the patient more fully and enable the supervisee to develop their work and understanding of the patient.

My talk will explore this aspect of supervision and also link to my recent book, ‘Psychodynamic and Psychoanalytic Supervision. A Contemporary Introduction’ (2026) Routledge.

Christine Driver is a Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and Fellow of the Foundation for Psychotherapy and Counselling and a Jungian Analyst/Analytical Psychologist (SAP) registered with the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC). She works as a psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer and was Director of Training and Clinical Services at WPF Therapy. She has written and co-written a number of books and papers including, Being and Relating in Psychotherapy (Palgrave MacMillan, 2013) and written The Self and the Quintessence: A Jungian Perspective (Routledge, 2020) and Psychodynamic and Psychoanalytic Supervision. A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge 2026).