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The Role of the Imagination in an Analysis of Unconscious Relatedness

Pages 311-321
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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The author presents a case study of her work with a female client. She chooses two periods of time in the therapy to explore the unconscious intersubjective nature of the clinical encounter. In part one she describes how an enactment leads to an impasse. Using the theory of the third, she describes how the impasse is resolved, which paves the way for the deeper therapeutic process described in part two. There she shows how previously dissociated traumatic states in both client and therapist are brought into conscious awareness. The theoretical focus is on theories of enactment, thirds, the use of imagination, reverie, and paradigms of the mind.

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Helena Hargaden

Author Biography
Helena Hargaden, MSc, DPsych, Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (psychotherapy), works in Sussex where she has her private practice. Drawing on her experience in Jungian analysis and psychoanalytic supervision, she developed relational perspectives in transactional analysis in collaboration with others. The coeditor and author of a variety of papers, she has been widely published and translated into a number of languages. Helena was awarded the Eric Berne Memorial Award in 2007 for her work with Charlotte Sills on the domains of transference. She is one of the original founders of the International Association of Relational Transactional Analysis and cofounded The Forum for Transgenerational Trauma, the latter of which focuses on an area that has been of interest in her own analysis. She has recently edited a book on The Art of Relational Supervision. Helena can be reached at 29, Heatherstone Road, Worthing, West Sussex, United Kingdom; email: .