ABOUT THE RELATION BETWEEN THE REQUEST FOR SUPERVISION AND THE STRUCTURE AND PROCESS OF SOCIAL-ORGANIZATION - RESULTS OF A SINGLE-CASE STUDY

It is shown in a single case-study that the request for supervision im plicates a double-bind similar to the structure of symptom-formation. It is recommended to conceive the request for supervision as a symptom in which real and serious causes and unsolved latent conflicts in the management of the organization is expressed in a condensed way. If th e supervisor does not analyse the request for supervision he takes unc onsciousely the risk to take over the role of a vicarious management f unction and gets involved in a serious paradoxon: on the one hand he s urpasses the barriers of his professional role, on the other hand he i s subjected to the barriers that are connected with the unsolved confl icts in the leadership of the organization.