Supervision in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Supporting Psychoanalytic Clinical Reasoning with PsyTutor Karl Golling, Ph.D., Prof.

Abstract

Background. Clinical supervision is one of the central processes through which psychotherapists learn to integrate theoretical knowledge with clinical observation and reflective practice. Supervisors frequently encounter a recurring difficulty in training: many students struggle to organize complex clinical material and to connect it coherently with psychoanalytic concepts such as conflict, defense, transference, and internal object relations. At the same time, recent developments in artificial intelligence raise new questions about how digital tools might assist learning processes in psychotherapy education without replacing the essential relational and experiential dimensions of supervision. Objective. This presentation introduces PsyTutor, an experimental educational project designed…