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Metaphorical associative cards (OH-cards, projective cards)

Metaphorical associative cards (OH-cards, projective cards) have more than 20 years of history. Thanks to Moritz Egetmeyer and his publishing house ON-Verlag, the cards have spread all over the world and are gaining more and more fans.

The range of application of OH-cards in group and individual work with adults and children is enormous. They are convenient to use in family therapy, psychodrama, gestalt, existential and art therapy, transactional analysis and psychosynthesis, just for fun with friends and family. Post-traumatic syndrome, work with psychosomatic diseases and addictions, problems of parent-child and marital relations, relationships in teams, business consulting, clarification and resolution of conflicts, personal growth – this is a far from complete list of areas where the use of cards, appeal through them to imagination, fantasies , the flow of associations can be very efficient.

Cards create an atmosphere of security and trust. Encourage people to self-discovery, discover their own creativity and improve communication with others. They help to understand the psychological causes of events happening to a person and find a solution for difficult situations. The ease of use of the cards allows you to use them without special training for personal growth, interesting family leisure, playing in a friendly company.

OH-cards are a whole family of metaphorical associative cards that form their own genre, unlike any other cards. The use of these cards is not like a normal card game. There is no strategy in this game, there are no losers and no winners. These cards do not have specific meanings assigned to each of them, as in Tarot cards. Each player in the course of the game determines their meaning for himself. While each deck is unique, it can be used in conjunction with all other decks of metaphorical mind cards, opening up new creative possibilities and creating endless space for our imagination to play.

Projective diagnostic methods are well known and popular in psychology.

OH-cards have all the advantages of projective methods, significantly expanding the therapeutic arsenal of a psychologist or psychotherapist. The cards allow access to a holistic picture of the client’s own “I”, his personal myth about the world and about himself in it, as well as the subjective image of the situation from the client’s point of view. Cards very quickly help to clarify and realize the actual experiences and needs of the client, his incomplete internal processes. When working with visual images, the client has no or significantly reduced conscious censorship, which makes it easier to work with his internal subconscious conflicts.

Cards provide us with the opportunity to see a clear picture of any interpersonal relationship, or the relationship of a person with any ideas and images from his external or internal reality. The use of cards to refer to a traumatic situation through a metaphor avoids additional retraumatization and creates a safe context for finding and modeling a solution. The cards start the internal processes of self-healing and the search for your own unique way out of the crisis.

Working with the time line allows you to model and explore any processes in the past and future, using maps to find metaphorical images of solutions that create a special reality for the client, subsequently embodied in his life.