Books about this genre
Publications about the OH Cards and other card-decks of the same genre. Here
you can find short articles and abstracts in various languages that have been
published in several countries for a large range of professional uses of our
cards.
That Perception Thing
by Dawn Brown, That Perception Thing, ISBN 0-921165-76-5,
www.perceptionshift.com,
www.creativebound.com
How successful you are at coping with change will determine how fully alive and productive
you are. If you want to thrive in the 21st century, it is essential that you master the ability
to cope with uncertainty. The only thing certain is change. This book offers you the opportunity
to shift your perceptions from the fear of pain to an acceptance of growth. Is life a battleground,
full of conflict and pain, or a classroom where lessons of personal growth are learned?
Stories, metaphors, and OH Cards challenge the reader to discover what is authentic and meaningful in life.
Dawn Brown, M.Ed. (Counselling), brings a unique perspective to her writing, seminars and workshops.
A dynamic and inspiring leader, she has extensive experience as a teacher, psychotherapist,
and trainer specializing in career and life transitions.
Dawn is currently the Director of Student Life Services at Carleton University, Ottawa
The OH Cards: A Technique to Enhance Therapeutic Efficacy ++ Connie L. Simons
A Clinical Research Project submitted to the faculty of the Illinois School of Professional
Psychology/Chicago Northwest Campus in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree
of the Doctor of Psychology in Clinical Psychology.
The use of OH cards in a therapeutic session proposes to open portions of the
unconscious to us and allow us more understanding about our lives. Since essential
therapeutic intervention cannot be achieved unless there is some degree of
self-understanding, this study proposes that the use of OH cards
will help to achieve that purpose.
Using the OH cards can assist a client to reach into the depths of his psyche,
and touch upon those elements of the unconscious that can bring forth some
of the innate wisdom that is stored within. It is inferred that the way to
this process is to merely allow the client to know himself and follow his true
path. The cards will allow the client to reach into his mind and draw upon
that knowledge.
This study introduces the concept of using OH cards in a therapeutic session
in order to increase a patient's insight or understanding of herself. It is
proposed that, with this increased self-understanding, a patient would experience
more effective therapeutic results in a shorter period of time.
GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING
Published by Guidance Centre, The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
Volume 8, Number 4, March, 1993
OH Cards: A Process for Interpersonal Exploration
Honore France and Joan Lawrence
OH cards are a portable art form and a therapeutic process that fuse the spontaneity
of games and the imagination of art into a vehicle for interpersonal and group
exploration. As a therapeutic modality OH is limited by neither a theoretical
approach nor any specific target population. OH can be used in individual therapy,
group counselling, self-therapy, group dynamics, communications training and
situations focusing on personal exploration. OH was created by the Canadian artist
Elohim Raman in 1976 and consists of 176 cards divided into two decks of 88 cards
(i.e., Word and Picture Cards). Each card contains a conceptual signal or a perceptual
stimulus expressed in either a picture or a word. The name OH was given to the
cards after it was noticed that many people responded to the cards as they were
playing for the first time with "OH".
The pictures cover a broad range of images from the explosive to the sublime
(e.g., nightmare, playing child, rope, embrace). The picture cards are paintings
by Raman who chose universal images that he felt would evoke strong personal
feelings and thoughts with "players" of the cards. The words are on larger
cards, with a single word repeated four times around the edges of the card.
The blank space at the centre of the card is where the picture cards are placed during
a "game." The picture and word combination has the potential of producing
an entirely different impression and meaning.
All of the words were carefully chosen by Raman because they possessed the potential
for a variety of interpretations and had a suggestive impact and were intended to be
active rather than passive.
The purpose of this paper is to describes the use of the OH Cards, which use
a "game" format to facilitate interpersonal exploration. The OH cards
blend art (picture cards) and descriptors (word cards) as a backdrop so "players"
can project feelings and meaning onto them. The "game" can be used as a means for
focusing a client and bringing to the foreground unconscious feelings and thoughts
or as a means for interpersonal exploration in groups.
Creative Therapies - A psychodynamic approach within occupational therapy
by Kim Atkinson and Catherine Wells, Stanley Thornes, ISBN0 7487 33108
... All of the above cards are very versatile in their use. They offer another
medium and activity to the repertoire of creative therapies. Most of the descriptions
above suggest using them as a catalyst to verbal expression but they could effectively
be used to spark communication through other creative processes - text and verse,
paper and paint, clay and sculpture, sound and rythm, body and movement. These
cards of interaction and association have a clear potential to facilitate psychodynamic
processes at a numer of levels. Because of this they have a value at all stages
of the process of change. They are, however, powerful, and we urge you to use
them with sensitivity and awareness..... We feel very excited about the potential
of these cards for psychodynamic OT practice.
The Pencil Sharpener
Veronica Grønte, Sweden, 2001, ISBN 91-973227-8-4
This book is a guide to storytelling and creative writing, plus it demonstrates
how the OH, SAGA, HABITAT and PERSONA Cards can be used in the teaching of them.
The exercises explained are intended for all age-groups. They can be used from
kindergarten on up to adult education. One of the most important tasks for our
schools today is to create the necessary conditions for linguistic development.
When we encourage our students in storytelling and creative writing, we draw
on an indwelling capacity that each one of them already possesses. But isn´t
this at times a complicated process! We teachers have all been wondering what
tricks might be used to make writing a pleasure, to inspire even the unmotivated
to take up the pen.
'The Pencil Sharpener' aims to support the role of the pedagogue as an instructor
of creative writing by offering the following:
+ Foundations of retoric and dramaturgy - the grammar of stories
+ Tools adapted to the building of stories both simple and advanced
+ Methods that really work for inciting motivation in students
+ Concepts for understanding various qualities of text
+ Strategies that simplify the exchange of direct and personal responses
+ Ideas that inspire new methods of teaching
'The Pencil Sharpener' links the logic of dramaturgy and the faculty of fantasy
by guiding its readers in the use of OH, SAGA, HABITAT and PERSONA Cards that
invite us to take a step beyond our borders!
Skriva - Dramaturgi som Hjälpmedel när vi Berättar
Fortbildning för Lärare, Pedagoger och Elevassistenter inom Barnoch Ungdomsskolan
Dialog mit Bildern - Von der Faszination der Bilderreisen
von Gisela Trampert, 2001, 336 Seiten, ISBN 3-89846-049-5
ww.gisela-trampert.de
Der "Dialog mit Bildern" zeigt Wege zu den Seelenbildern, wie sie jeder
Mensch in sich traNgt. Ausdrucksstark schildert die Autorin, die als selbstaNtige
Heilpraktikerin und Psychotherapeutin arbeitet, an vielen Beispielen ihr Therapiekonzept,
das immer auf eine ganzheitliche Behandlung zielt.
Neben der Einführung in die Grundvoraussetzung der Psychotherapie, dem seelischen
Dialog mit den Schwierigkeiten des Patienten, mit Partnerproblemen, Ã?gsten,
Verhaltensstörungen, Schuldkomplexen, Psychosen usw., bietet das Buch eine Vielfalt
von imaginativen Methoden bzw. Visualisierungsthechniken an.
Ein Kapitel ist ausschließlich den OH-Karten von Ely Raman gewidmet: Einführung,
praktische Beispiele für die Arbeit mit Einzelpersonen wie Gruppen und Anregungen
für die Arbeit mit Kindern (mit den Saga-Karten).
Im letzten Kapitel wird durchgehend dargestellt, wie Visualisierungsübungen -
auch mit Hilfe der OH-Karten, durch Assoziationen immer wieder zu erstaunlichen
Erkenntnissen führen können. Bemerkenswert ist bei den geschilderten Methoden,
dass niemals am bekannten Problem oder Symptom gearbeitet wird, sondern der Mensch
die Freiheit bekommt, in einem tief entspannten Zustand, bei gleichzeitig geschärftem
Wachbewusstsein, aus dem eigenen Innern weisheitsvolle Bilder und Worte zu finden,
die dem, was wir vordergründig wissen, oder glauben, gelernt zu haben, weit überlegen
sind. Der Mensch hat so die Chance, unabhaNngig vom Konzept seines Therapeuten,
sein eigenes Konzept zu finden, mit dem er jetzt effektiv arbeiten und leben kann.
Die FoNrderung von Phantasie, KreativitaNt und Selbsterkenntnis durch die Arbeit
mit Symbolen in der Psychotherapie C. G. Jungs und Nachfolgern, am Beispiel des
OH-Systems
von Hedda Christine LuNckemeier, 100 Seiten, Abschlussarbeit Uni Bielefeld
www.hedda-lueckemeier.de
Lückemeier beschreibt im ersten Teil Grundbegriffe der Therapie C.G. Jungs, sowie
den therapeutischen Umgang mit Symbolen im Allgemeinen. Im zweiten Teil untersucht
sie theoretisch und anhand von Fallbeispielen, wieweit die Arbeit mit den OH-Karten
geeignet ist Phantasie, KreativitaNt und IntrospektionsfaNhigkeit des Klienten zu fördern
und resümiert, dass die Arbeit mit OH-Karten sich in verschiedene TherapieansaNtze integrieren
laNsst und die zeitliche Effizienz einer Therapie steigern kann.
