Beyond Language in Relational Psychotherapy The Selected Works of Helena Hargaden

This collection of articles by Dr. Helena Hargaden makes the case for the evolution of relational theory from a scientific and poetic knowledge base, expressing the different forms of human suffering. Journal articles, book chapters, and speeches spanning the course of 22 years trace the evolution of the author’s own mind alongside the evolution of relational theory. Drawing on her knowledge of science and poetry, Dr. Hargaden examines case studies tracing the relational process which involves the vulnerability of both therapist and client as change happens in them through complex relatedness. The author makes broad in depth theoretical links with humanistic and psychoanalytic perspectives which reveal the richness inherent in the term ‘Relational’. Themes explored include intersubjectivity, the use of the analyst’s subjectivity, mutuality, therapy as a two-way street, dissociation, enactment, the use of ‘the third’, race, gender and sexuality. Blending approachable language and themes with highly intellectual ideas, this text will be of high value and intrigue to a wide range of readers, particularly transactional analysts and relational psychotherapists.

1. An Analysis of Nonverbal Transactions Drawing on Theories of Intersubjectivity2. The Role of the Imagination in an Analysis of Unconscious Relatedness 3. "Father, Where Art Thou?" The Significance of Transgenerational Trauma in a Psycho-therapy with Luke 4. Deconfusion of the Child Ego State: A Relational Perspective 5. "Come On You Blues! Fathers." 6. The Anniversary of The Wailing Woman 7. Anna Karenina, Lilly, and the Co-created Unconscious Relational Third 8. Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November9. Building Resilience: The Role of Firm Boundaries and the Third in Relational Group Therapy 10. When Parting is Not Such Sweet Sorrow 11. To Be or Not To Be – Is that The Question? The Paradox of Script 12. A Talk on Money, Race, and the links with Karpman’s Triangle 13. The Erotic Relational Matrix Revisited14 Then We’ll Come from the Shadows15. The Irish Uprising of Easter 1916: A Psychopolitical Dialogue

Helena Hargaden, MSc, D.Psych, TSTA, works and lives in Sussex. She is co-editor and author of a variety of papers and books. She has been widely published and translated into a number of languages. She was awarded the Eric Berne Memorial Award in 2007 for her work with Charlotte Sills on the "domains of transference".