A potential source of friction in the supervision of psychotherapy arises when the supervisor and supervisee are from different countries and hold different culturally instilled values and attitudes. As participants in such a supervisory situation, the authors sought to explore systematically the effect of culture on abstract thinking and problem conceptualization by use of a proverb-interpretation task. The results are suggestive of the need for further, more rigorous laboratory study of the problem of how culture influences higher thought processes.
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