The Budapest model of supervision has been left out from the renewed discussions and research projects. The author highlights some historical backgrounds in the development of the practice of supervision, which are connected with the organisational development of the international psychoanalytical movement. He explores Vilma Kovacs seminal paper on the Hungarian model of supervision. He points out that the therapeutic moment, due to the psychoanalytic technique, is unavoidable, and the different models offer only practical, but no optimal solutions to this inherent conflict. Changes in psychotherapy knowledge of candidates before entering psychoanalytic training, and other factors allow us to review the different models of supervision from a fresh point of view.