Title: Supervision in Action: A Relational Approach to Coaching and Consulting Supervision Author; Erik de Haan Publisher: Open University Press ISBN 978 03352 4577 2 Usefulness **** In this welcome addition to the literature on coaching supervision, de Haan applies the perspective he took in his earlier Relational Coaching. While other authors focus on the functions of supervision, the attention here is on the importance of transference and parallel processes in the supervision relationship. He uses seven playful metaphors to draw this out. Some may balk at supervision being described...