Windows and doors. A metaphor for interactions with the outside world (set of 112 cards)

The set includes:
- 80 cards with images (photos)
- 32 cards with words
- instruction.
The set includes photos with images of windows and windows, doors and wickets - open and closed, well-groomed and abandoned. In addition, it has small cards with words and phrases. All this is a tool for the work of a practical psychologist, called metaphorical cards. Maps can be used in counseling, psychotherapy, coaching, in group and individual work with children and adults.
In detail about the rules, strategies and techniques for using metaphorical cards in the work of a psychologist, written in the book of Katz, E. Mukhamatulina "metaphorical cards. Guide for a psychologist ", here is characterizing the possibilities and basic rules of work briefly.
How do metaphorical cards work? Why do we love them? During the course of life, people accumulate many visual images in memory. Come on, these images generate a variety of feelings, a meeting with them is a meeting with itself in various life planes: temporary (in the past and present, in the imaginary future), emotional (happiness-love-grief), interpersonal. In an implicit form, metaphorical maps contain many messages reflecting the subconscious intentions and values ​​of the person considering their, and the same picture carries different meanings for different people. When a person does not speak directly about himself, but turns to visual images, he is less defended, the cards open to him a nontrivial perspective for analyzing life. "Windows and Doors" - a new original set of cards, it allows you to work with the topics of yourself, openness to the outside world, security, overcoming barriers. The image of the window is associated with most people with the possibility of seeing people to see and show yourself "and causes fan associations associated with self-esteem, with reflection on how they are perceived by others, as it correlates with the desired way. Another wave of associations is associated with the knowledge of the world, interacting with him. The door image is also metaphorical. Notice how often we use the phrase "shut the door in front of him", "all the doors are open in front of him", etc., having in mind the possibilities that life opens in front of us. The proposed set, therefore, can be used in situations where the client stands before the need to solve problems, is looking for exits from the crisis situation, it is acutely experiencing a sense of its freedom-non-free, forms its external image. New acquaintances, first impressions, facades, closed and open entrances and exits, someone else"s life and organization of our own life - these are the images that cause people window-door cards. Despite its wonderful features, metaphorical cards are not a medicine, but research tool and psychotherapy. By themselves, they do not give answers, but help to ask meaningful, current issues. The psychological meaning of working with cards is that a person expresses its attitude towards the image available on the map, analyzes the emerging associations, relates with actualizing experiences, memories. Maps can be chosen both, arbitrarily (having the opportunity to consider the images) and blindly (pulling them at random at random) You can also correlate images with verbal material: give the picture the name arbitrarily or find a suitable card with the word from the set