These unusual decks of cards depicting landscapes, faces or objects are increasingly being used by psychologists in their work. How to use them and what can they tell us?
Metaphorical cards are a professional psychological tool based on working with visual metaphor. There are many visual images within us, many of which are stored in our memory throughout our lives, like museum pieces. We refer to some of them often, we forget about the existence of some. But when they meet with similar external images, they suddenly come to life, giving rise to a variety of feelings – from surprise and delight to sadness and sadness.
The meeting with these images is a meeting with oneself, not always easy and pleasant, but always exciting. When a person peers at a card that a psychologist offers him, he, in fact, travels through his inner museum along many doors behind which events, impressions, human history live …
Metaphorical cards are the keys to these doors. The contents of closed rooms, pulled out into the light, take on meaning and are filled with relevant content. Choosing this or that card and examining it, a person actually talks about himself, and from this story it becomes clearer to both the psychologist and himself where he draws strength from, what his value system is, what he fears and what he believes in.
Experience exchange
Metaphorical cards were created back in the 80s of the last century, but in our country, psychologists began to use them widely only in the last few years. The popularity of cards among psychologists is growing rapidly, and, being a universal tool, they are used in a wide variety of areas of psychology: with difficulties in the relationship between children and parents, in working with the experience of loss and psychological trauma, with problems with adolescents and in partnerships. There are also special psychological games using metaphorical cards.
Our new Metaphoric Card of the Day service will help you to test the power of metaphorical cards, work with them on your own and find answers to pressing questions. We wish you wonderful discoveries!