Complex relationships: pedagogical, psychotherapeutic and clinical supervisory relationships

Abstract

This epistemological article will be focused on the analysis of the nature of the pedagogical, psychotherapeutic and clinical supervisory relationships from the perspective of complex thinking. In order to do so, it will explain the nature of complex thinking in opposition to reductionist conceptualization of classical-positivist science. At the same time, it will also define why human beings are complex multidimensional entities that develop complex relationships such as the pedagogical, psychotherapeutic and clinical supervisory relationships. Finally, it will analyse the common multidimensional structure of these relationships such as systemic (comparison between simple and complex systems), political (analysis of power relationships), educative (description of assimilation and accommodation processes), social (examination of the concept of working alliance), transferential (Analysis of concepts of transference and countertransference), moral (reflection of historical and social construction of the concept of morality), and spirituality and/or religious dimensions (Analysis of the conflict between science and spirituality/religion)