Photo sharing with postcards

One of my favorite art group materials is postcards to express my feelings or show sympathy for a certain person. To date, there is a huge number of various postcards for any occasion, and using them in the work of an art psychologist is completely natural and logical.
A postcard is a phenomenon of artistic culture, often a translator of relevant and important processes in the socio-cultural space of a society, which is especially important for understanding collective unconscious tendencies in a certain period of social development. It is the cards that complement the main gift, which helps to show respect for a person, express various wishes, programs for the future, psychological messages to a particular person. A bright, beautiful picture directed at a person can both surprise and please the one to whom it was presented, but the main function of a postcard is the transfer of information, an objective form of communication between people. One of the most significant functions of an artistic postcard is hedonistic or recreational. First of all, a postcard gives pleasure, entertains, makes you enjoy the image on the front side, decorates, contributes to immersion in the informational message, and launches the mechanisms of analysis. Considering the diversity and multifunctionality of such a cultural phenomenon as a postcard, one can single out the qualities inherent in it, regardless of the functions it performs: the postcard has always been associated with the real facts of human life, the mirror of which was in the general context of history.
In trainings, making postcards or creating wishes helps to actualize important group processes: more friendly relations with the group, to become a symbol of courtesy and sincerity of group processes, promotes communication and communication between group members, showing sympathy, relieves tension and discomfort. An important psychological mechanism for the use of postcards in art groups is the ability to accept, look for a personalized meaning in it, finds a hidden informational message for the “I”.
Intuitive, purely emotional reading, the pronounced symbolic nature of the postcard form in the aggregate a kind of “psychological text”, a certain combination and interaction of signs, subject to a multi-valued, sometimes quite subjective personal interpretation, the legitimacy of which is due to the well-known interpretation of the symbols used in the process of analyzing the system of interactions in the group.
A postcard is an excellent method of using the synthesis of conical, linguistic signs of symbols of an unconscious person and society; it is especially interesting to use this form in art work with such phenomena of the “I” as anima and animus.

© Victoria Nazarevich

New program 2015
Psychology of female vitality or where to find the strength to be a woman
(a series of educational and therapeutic seminars)

At the heart of the cycle of seminars, it treats the development of the necessary skills and methods of psychological assistance for women in different life situations, associated with both internal experiences and external influences. The system of work at seminars involves psychoanalytic understanding and the search for methods for understanding and structuring concepts such as feminine qualities, family conflicts and crises, partnerships, etc. In the process of implementing art therapy techniques, women are accompanied in various existential situations and crisis states. Seminars will be useful in the practice of practical psychologists, consultants, psychotherapists, people interested in the topic of family psychology.
Basic forms of work at seminars: mini-lectures, methods of psychoanalysis, forms of art therapy practice (projective drawing, analysis of archetypal dispositions using metaphorical and projective cards, art modeling with OH-cards, creation of therapeutic myths), methods of body-oriented psychotherapy, meditation and relaxation techniques.
1 Emotional well-being of a woman: theories and practices, methods of stabilization and regulation of destructive states.
2 Psychological conditions for balance and effectiveness of partnerships in the family system.
3 The system of psychological assistance in family conflicts.
4 Resource state of a woman: psychological methods of activation and mobilization.
5 Methods of harmonious balancing in the system: me, family, robot, world.
6 Healing women’s wounds when experiencing emotional pain: anti-crisis support for women.
Seminars are certified by: Western Ukrainian Association of Art Psychologists and Art Therapists.