Apple and worm

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A set of pictures “Apple and worm” is a projective tool for a psychologist to quickly reach the client’s psychological problem with the help of metaphorical images of an apple and a worm. The image of the “I” of the client can be presented in different images convenient for him: I am like an apple or I am like a worm. The pictures are made using two main psychoanalytic symbols – an apple and a worm, and depict different forms of interaction between these two elements. As part of the activities of psychologists, educators and social educators, pictures can be used to diagnose the mental state of the client and to analyze the impact of stress factors on the integrity of the individual. The apple symbolizes the image – I, the worm, the negative influences that a person experiences under the influence of various environmental factors. Also, pictures can be used for such forms of psychological work:
– self-diagnosis of mental state;
– in order to create psychotherapeutic fairy tales;
– for corrective work in overcoming stress;
– in order to develop the child’s speech;
– in order to develop the child’s thinking and the formation of imagination;
– as part of the psychological support of the family
-for robots with family relationships in marriage (Who is an apple, who is a worm, the level of their interactions);
– in order to obtain psychological information about the emotional state of the client (on which of the cards is the worm joyful and happy and why?);
The cards are accompanied by a complete methodological guide with explanations of the symbols of the cards and the methods of the psychologist’s work with pictures, fairy tales for psychological support when using pictures in art therapy, interview protocols.

Diagnostic and correctional psychological pictures “Apple and worm” are recommended to be used for work:
– parents as a developing method and technique of fairy tale therapy;
– psychologists for the diagnosis and correction of personality;
– teachers in the development of the child’s speech