<p>In this episode, <a href="https://rachaelburton.com.au" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Rachael</a> struggles with her own feelings about her therapy being cut across by a psychiatrist who seems to be opposed to long term therapy. </p><p><br></p><p>She feels activated especially as the patient has asked her to intervene and contact the psychiatrist. </p><p>In supervision, she engages with her frustration at the interference in her treatment and her therapeutic relationship and also her anger in relation to the zeitgeist that opposes in-depth therapy. </p><p><a href="https://rachaelburton.com.au">Rachael⁠</a> recognises that in her activation she gets pulled into focusing more on the zeitgeist and less on the patient and is hooked by the emergence of her own sibling rivalry . </p><p><br></p><p>These are not enacted with the patient but they interfere with <a href="https://rachaelburton.com.au">Rachael⁠</a>’s ability to think about the analytic meaning of the patient’s request. Through supervision, she is able to see that she is inadvertently being invited into a split and while activated is loosing the opportunity to explore the psychodynamic meaning of the patient’s request. Through this understanding she returns to her analytic position. </p>