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- Dear friends, today we'll talk a bit about other things
We will talk about the new direction in such science as psychology.
We will talk about the thing that I now hold in my hands
Our next guest will tell us what it is literally a second
If you are interested in psychology, be sure to wait
And we begin to get acquainted with our early morning guest
Our guest name is Alexander Pushkov
- Good morning, Alexander - Good morning
He is a practicing psychologist, who will probably put on me some experiments
Or just will tell us about these interesting things that are on the table
Alexander, the first question is - Your secret of good mood in the morning
What are you doing to go to work or to university with a smile?
No matter how corny it sounds, but my morning starts with these cards
They help me to start the morning cheerfully, with resource that would be usefull for me during the whole day.
I think I'll tell you today how they help me and how they can help each of us
Cards will save the world :)
What kind of therapy do you use in your practice?
Why do you give preference to some particular form of therapy?
It is important to explain what will take place now
There are many directions in psychology (psychoanalysis, gestalt, etc.)
I usually present myself as a family psychologist.
Cards are just a tool, an instrument.
Psychologists of different directions can use It.
Today I will talk just about the psychological tool.
And everyone will be able to learn - how can he use it as a psychologist, or simply as a average man to themselves.
So, It is a new instrument.
It was born in 1975 in Canada.
It was recently appeared in the space of the CIS countries.
I'll boast, I have almost the whole collection
New decks are manufactured today
I hope they will appear soon in my collection too.
About 17 packs presented here
Each deck carries a special motives, special pictures, and are used for special tasks.
For example, if my clients have problems in relationships
I use the deck, which shows a lot of pictures with faces.
There is a separate deck in which a lot of portraits painted
I ask the client to choose a portrait that fits him or his partner most of all.
And then we begin to discuss
what feelings does these pictures cause
how do these pictures relate to each other
On the one hand we are talking about the cards
and at the same time we are talking about the situation with which the client has come
The charm of these cards is that they are metaphorical, that creates a special, safe atmosphere
The client disclosed faster, faster comes to the heart of the problem
There is an unspoken statistics
usually it takes 8 - 10 meetings to solve a typical problem without using cards
It is possible to solve the same problem using cards in 4 - 5 meetings
-By the way, they are called OH cardsů
-Yes, there are many names: metaphoric cards, OH cards ...
The world knows them under various names.
This is an independent branch now.
There are a few alternative publishers in the world.
All these decks are published in Germany,
Izril has its own alternative publishing company
- Let's try.
What can we say, for example, if a person chooses this card?
- It's a good question
there are no catalogs "what each card means".
Sometimes people who works with the cards for the first time, say:
"Oh, this is Taro. Is there any meaning?"
There are NO fixed meaning.
We work with the information that is produced by client.
I would start by asking - "What is this card mean to you?"
Maybe for you it's some kind of explosion of emotions and feelings.
But for someone this card will cause fear.
Modern psychology is focused on the client
on his request, his information.
When a lot of decks lies on the table
then the theory and stories about them, without touching
will be very dry and not interesting
So I would really like to show cards to the audience and to interact with you.
I wish that we could feel the charm of the projection
Projection is the basic phenomenon, which lies in this tool.
We see what we want to see
We see what is important for us now
And we will check it.
I will propose you a whole deck
and ask to select one card,
to turn it over
and to say first associations that will arise in your mind
- Will we make some sort of analysis then?
I'll tell my association
and then we will discuss them
Perhaps we will see different things in the same card.
Why is such a large number different cards here?
Is there a certain number, which all decks are have or the number is different?
All these cards were created in the tandem of psychologist and artist.
The first cards were designed as works of art
that could be taken out from the galleries to the people
to provide an opportunity for each person carry in a pocket collection of works of art
And only through time
psychologists have seen in the cards powerful psychotherapeutic tool
And began to use it in there practice
Therefore the volume is different.
But the quantity and quality are not related here.
I could come up with a single deck
I could work with you on matches
and we would come to some kind of effective results
Or I could have 25 decks
but I was not competent, then We would came to nothing
So let's try. ů.
Tell the first thing that comes to mind
Field and the tank comes first
Field and turret of the tank
And now I see the beetle
I also curious.
I like to touch the cards
For me it's a helicopter that flies over the field
I probably grabbed your image.
For me it's a field near the river and in the gray sky helicopter is flying
Actually, what has happened?
There was a card and we gave on it our own associations
We could continue to discuss and work with metaphor
Let us take your idea of the field and the tank.
What is the idea of the field for you?
Do you associate yourself with the field or tank?
If you said that you were a tank in this card
I would start to ask - what does it mean to you?
Where do you feel like tank in your life?
We would come to some hot topics, current living areas in your life
Further, we could formulate a request.
That is the scheme of work.
I wonder why did we resive similar associations about the military technique
What does It depend from?
I guess that common theme just sounded
If we both took out the same card, but did not listen to each other
then maybe I would have grabbed another idea
Maybe we have entered into a common space
On the one hand, we both talked about the field and on the military theme
but under this categories we have different meanings.
Military theme for me will be connected with the idea of passing the exams
that is very important for me
and for you may be related to work or relationships
Cards are just an incentive, which would give us a reason to communicate with you further
- In what cases do you use this tool?
Do you constantly work with the cards or use some other methods too.
Or you use cards to learn something about the person
that you can not learn in the ordinary communication,
when you see that the case is hopeless, is't it?
Actually cards for me like a piano in the bushes
There are a special place for cards in the office.
First of all I am working with a client
When I see that there is necessary to make an exercise I take out my cards
For example, I need to give the idea to the family
that the behavior of one person leads to the corresponding behavior of another
Instead to give this idea directly, from which they'll be able to refuse
I propose to do the exercise with the cards
Thus I'll go their protection and will collide them face to face with idea.
- And what does it mean "'ll go their protection"?
Mental protection is a phenomenon that is given to us during the life
there are different levels, different qualities of psychological defenses.
Some people will be protected by avoidance and by denying the information
and someone by sublimation or rationalization
All of them provide safety for the soul, for the psyche
Sometimes they are used consciously
sometimes a person has no control over them and does not understand what's going on with him
Two tendencies are fighting in a man:
change in or to stay the same
Mental protections play a role of self-preservation
the psychologists are learning to work with these things 5 and 10 years
At first they roughly break through protection
then find some tools that help to bypass them
They help the client faster to come to wholeness, harmony and happiness.
Friends, I always knew that psychology is very interesting science
where you can dig an endless number of hours and days
Unfortunately our time is limited
thank you for the interesting conversation
Can you wish something to our viewers?
It was a good meeting today
I wish each of our audience had cheerful and energetic morning
I like to give gifts at the end.
- What would it be?
Nobody knows.
I took out one card from the deck.
It is a sword.
Maybe this gift symbolizes the fight, the energy.
I wish each viewer this energy, power, desire to fight for their goals, for their desire, for their positions.
I wish you a resource. I wish you the power to overcome, to achieve and develop.
Thank you for the interesting conversation.
Thank you for gift to our viewers.
our guest was a practicing psychologist Alexander Pushkov.
I wish your clients find the correct understanding of life and solve their problems.
Thank you.