The emotional map of your home:
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We put this page together after the SSCA Method webinar, at the request of the participants. It contains the downloads related to the talk, which may be useful more widely as well.
The webinar dealt with drawing the emotional map of the home, and demonstrated how the method is applied and interpreted, with pictorial examples and video recordings.
- “The home is like another being with whom we are going to live... It has qualities that we cannot change.
- If we force our will upon it, it is as if we were forcing it to play a role.
- Let us choose cooperation instead, and treat our peculiar «flatmate», the home itself, with respect and love!
- Let us sense the soul of the home, its individual nature!
- Let us walk through the space with a sensitive eye, and allow the home to affect us.
- One does a great deal for oneself by discovering, and then remembering, which part of the home affects one in which way..." (continued below)
A few words about the free talk series
The talk is part of the SSCA Method's free science-communication series.
The series is aimed primarily at professionals in the helping and caring fields.
Each time a different topic is covered, and every talk is given only once. Participation is free and open; we warmly look forward to seeing you at the next occasion (scroll down for the registration form)!
Here are the download links for the "emotional map of the home" topic:
- THE SOUL OF THE HOME. An expanding mini-universe, or a space-widening spell. An excerpt for internal use from an interview with Prof. Dr. Zoltán Vass. Click here to download (PDF)
- Read about the related research too, in Viola Sallay's PhD dissertation "Environmental-emotional self-regulation processes in the space of the family home" (2014)
English recording of this webinar is being prepared — this is the public SSCA Method preview.
IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR IN-DEPTH TRAINING...
The SSCA Method's mission is the scientific research of projective drawing interpretation, and the spread of an objective, up-to-date outlook through scientific publications, conferences and training.
The most popular training is the Online Tutorial Program, which teaches 11 modern areas of picture interpretation, primarily for professionals in the helping and caring fields (or those preparing for such a career).
What does the Online Tutorial Program contain?
Chapters that teach the up-to-date body of knowledge of picture interpretation with instructional films, online exercises and online consultation. Their credibility is ensured by the fact that they were produced in a scientific research workshop.
The chapters
- consist of instructional films,
- contain built-in exercises,
- with downloadable supporting material,
- with self-administered knowledge-assessment tests,
- which are complemented by personal, online consultations.
A total of 24 topics
...cover the Seven-Step Configuration Analysis method, as well as the topics of scribbles, tree drawings, family drawings, colours, rapid picture reading, counselling, relationship picture interpretation and art-therapy techniques.
The scenes shown in the films were gathered through 25 years of scientific research work:
...cover the Seven-Step Configuration Analysis method, as well as
- scribbles,
- tree drawings,
- family drawings, school drawings, kindergarten drawings,
- colour psychology,
- rapid picture reading,
- counselling with drawings,
- relationship picture interpretation and
- the topics of art-therapy techniques.
- in genuine assessment situations, close-up filmed scribble tests, tree drawings, human-figure drawings and other subjects, where you can follow the movements, the pauses and the changes of psychomotor tempo from the first to the last second,
- a demonstration of Lundholm's 1921 experiment illustrating the affective meaning of the line,
- colour paintings made in an art-therapy session that depict the healthy and the pathological self,
- the psychological analysis of the colour choices of two Parisian painters, whose paintings made in Montmartre happened by chance to be recorded,
- a family-therapy case study for the colour Stora four-tree test, in which the tree drawings of the child, the mother and the alcoholic father reveal the concealed family pathology,
- a presentation of the "tree in a storm" crisis-diagnostic test based on patients' tree-drawing paintings,
- family drawings, kindergarten and school drawings from healthy and troubled children, filmed while being drawn, supplemented with explanations,
- projective mother-child drawings made by mothers living in a mother-and-baby home,
- the analysis of a police officer's animal-drawing test, which reveals why he is unsuited to that career,
- authentic life-space tests made in a children's home for uncovering attachment problems and separation experiences,
- a series of life-space tests of alcoholics and homeless people, whose maps make it immediately clear what matters most in a person's life, what drove them into their situation and what way out is taking shape,
- the peculiar scribbles and house-tree-person test of a schizophrenic patient, which speak clearly of the patient's experiences,
- the analysis of a complete life history with the internationally acclaimed new method, the Sixty-Second Drawing Test (SSDT),
- relationship diagnostics with the Sixty-Second Drawing Test, analysing real relationships,
- enlarged details of the drawing tests of borderline, manic-depressive, paranoid and other patients, which the professor analyses in detail,
... or those texts, unavailable elsewhere, from the archive of Prof. Dr. Zoltán Vass.
Click on the topic that interests you most:
The anatomy of the scribble and the line
- the original, slowed-down video recording of that 1997 Meurisse scribble test which illustrates the model reactions in the professor's 2006 book,
- adults' spontaneous scribbles made in incidental situations, enlarged and selected from a collection of several thousand,
- scribble-analysis exercises teaching the method of motor empathy (Hárdi, 1983), with enlarged examples, explanations and solutions,
- a collection of geometric and organic spontaneous scribbles, whose tiny yet essential differences the professor analyses, differences that would otherwise be hard to notice,
- film clips and experiments illustrating synaesthesia and intermodal perception,
- the abstract representation of colours with non-figurative scribbles, whose qualities the professor analyses in detail,
- the study of the anatomy of the line through examples (based on orientation, spatial frequency, amplitude and other line qualities),
- the presentation of the sad, the calm, the angry, the agitated line and several other line types with enlarged examples,
- a comparative collection of scribbles demonstrating the assessment of aggression management,
- an exercise for dissecting the anatomy of the line, in which "speaking lines" must be analysed (with a solution and explanation, of course),
- filmed, original Meurisse, Grätz and Kutash-Gehl scribbles with psychological analysis,
- the scribble tests of adult patients with case history and explanations,
- an inventory of the qualities of healthy and neurotic scribbles,
- a list of the conflict indicators of neurotic scribbles,
- a symptom list for the process analysis of pathological scribbles, including verbal and non-verbal behavioural indicators, as well as the diagnostic analysis of the association process
Colour diagnostics
- the making process of colour art-therapy paintings, together with analysis and the participants' first-person accounts,
- built-in exercises for teaching the archetypal symbolism of the most common colours, demonstrations that help clearly distinguish archetypal and cultural colour meanings,
- colour drawings for presenting the method of individual colour keys,
- a concrete colour-key inventory showing the colour keys of real individuals,
- the 18-colour scale which, according to the professor's research, is best suited to the psychological study of colours,
- the evaluation criteria of the colour-key test in such detail that they did not even fit within the time frame of the live courses,
- a previously unpublished inventory of the psychological meanings of the most important colours, based on the literature and the professor's domestic research covering 40,000 people,
- a frequency analysis of associations relating to colours,
- an explanation of the stimulation and achromatic colour syndrome
Traditional and new tree-drawing tests
- you can watch live the whole drawing process of those tree drawings that appear in the book only as static photographs,
- two exercises for the diagnostic analysis of the branch structure of tree drawings,
- a descriptive list and four global analytic dimensions that are especially useful for tree drawings,
- holistic tree-drawing interpretation exercises with solutions and explanations,
- the use of the ARTIES picture-interpretation program for the projective analysis of tree drawings,
- the instructions of the old and the modern tree-drawing tests and their comparison,
Family drawing, kindergarten and school drawing
- original examples from the classic literature on family drawings: Hulse (1951), Corman (1964), Machover (1949)
- the creation process of the family drawings of healthy and troubled children, filmed,
- dynamic, fast exercises in which conflict and normality indicators must be found in successively projected family drawings,
- case histories and perception exercises for the kinetic family drawings of healthy and behaviourally disordered children,
- kinetic kindergarten and school drawings for recognising normality and pathology indicators,
- exercises teaching the distinction between encapsulation and compartmentalisation,
- case analyses for kinetic hospital drawings and projective mother-child drawings,
- the comparison of mother-child drawings made by mothers living in a mother-and-baby home with the drawings of a control group,
- examples for the global analysis of bird's-nest drawings (symbolic family drawings)
Counselling, coaching, therapy
- fast exercises for the rapid picture-reading technique developed by the professor, with precise and detailed solutions,
- an overview map of the rapid picture-reading technique in mind-map format,
- a collection of drawing tests usable in counselling situations, with application suggestions,
- sample drawings that reveal why one cannot simulate or dissimulate in the drawing tests,
- real examples for the new scribble test developed by the professor, in which the drawing process is also visible (of all the scribble tests this one speaks most about the subject, it is the most personal and most tailored)
- colour examples for one of the most successful tests of recent times, the life-path test, which sees into the past and the “future” at a depth that is rare even in art therapy,
- colour drawings by healthy people and patients for every essential feature of the life-path test,
Relationship diagnostics
- the detection and detailed analysis of the core problem of the current relationship with the Sixty-Second Drawing Test in three real relationships,
- a checklist for determining which of Lee's six love styles guides the examined person in their decisions (with detailed explanations and research data),
- an excerpt, in checklist form, of a questionnaire not published elsewhere, which helps determine the type and likely future of the relationship starting from Sternberg's scientific model,
- the presentation and availability of a special mobile app for the objective assessment of the relationship's state,
- workshop secrets for analysing couple drawings, which reveal even the honest, unconscious feelings about the relationship,
- the analysis of the defining qualities of the relationship with colour couple drawings, selected by the professor from a collection of several thousand drawings,
- the exhaustive analysis of four non-existent-animal drawing tests in the case of a broken relationship, as well as at low, medium and high degrees of compatibility,
- a self-assessment checklist for the symptoms Gottman named “the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse”, which must always be monitored in every relationship,
- the classic method of the relationship "love map", illustrated with a concrete example,
- the visual representation types of happiness, through the analysis of happiness paintings,
- the five lessons that people typically recognise only at the very end of their lives: “the five regrets”
Art therapy
- paintings made in an art-therapy session that depict the healthy and the pathological self,
- clay sculptures that depict the organisation of the personality in space (more precisely its subjective representation),
- the colour pastel paintings of the participants of an art-therapy workshop, showing the subjective localisation of the self within the body,
- the accounts and self-interpretations of the workshop participants, while the creation process of the paintings can be followed up close,
- the drawing process of resource paintings with psychological interpretation,
- the soul of the home: individual examples, in pastel paintings, of depicting the positive and negative emotions and moods unconsciously condensed in the space of the home,
- the emotional map of the home with real examples, drawing process and psychological analysis,
- enlarged details of the drawing tests of neurotic and psychotic patients, which the professor analyses in detail
WHY DO WE RUN THIS PROGRAM?
The SSCA Method's mission is the further development of the research field of pictorial expression psychology and credible science communication.
The science of picture interpretation has undergone enormous development in recent decades, as the new scientific paradigm of pictorial expression psychology emerged from the research of Prof. Dr. Zoltán Vass (on which he gave a plenary lecture at the Hungarian Psychological Association).
In more detail:
Vass Zoltán (2016). A képi kifejezéspszichológia új paradigmája – Mérei Ferenc emlékelőadás. Múlt and jelen összeér. Magyar Pszichológiai Társaság XXV., Jubileumi Országos Tudományos Nagygyűlése, Budapest, 2016.06.02-04. (2016.06.02.)
Some recommended reading:
Vass, Z. (2006). A rajzvizsgálat pszichodiagnosztikai alapjai. Budapest: Flaccus. (927 pp.)
Vass, Z. (2012). A psychological interpretation of drawings and paintings. The SSCA method: A systems analysis approach. Budapest: Alexandra. (928 pp.)
Vass, Z. (2011). A képi kifejezéspszichológia alapkérdései - szemlélet and módszer. Budapest: L’Harmattan
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An enormous amount of work to put together a training like this. Thank you.
Surprisingly good, exciting, humorous, to the point, understandable….
Although I have only listened to a few parts so far, it has been very exciting and understandable. I also like the way it was technically implemented.
I have wanted to get into this for a very long time! I am glad to be here, the first part was already very interesting. I look forward to the continuation with curiosity and excitement! Congratulations on the program!
Although I also like attending courses in person, which has a different atmosphere, I now see that a huge advantage of the videos is that I can return to anything if I want to understand or memorise it better. If I am interrupted or get tired, that is no big problem either, I can continue from there and then, whenever I want.
I am very glad that I found the most credible picture-interpretation course!
The amount is a little intimidating for me, but I hope I will manage to cope with it.
The lectures are very well edited.
We are still very much at the beginning (especially me, in working through it), but I would call it flawless.
High-level and comprehensive material, exceptional teachers, quality training, and all of this on my own schedule!
Really great, easy to understand, I love it.
The training is very good. I would listen to the lectures for much longer, because they are very enjoyable and informative.
All the examples the Professor presents are very interesting and useful to me.
Thank you that I can deepen my knowledge of picture interpretation even further and that the material becomes even clearer. It is very interesting and repeatable, which is also a great advantage.
Thank you very much for the opportunity to expand my knowledge further. I really like this kind of training, even though I had reservations at first because of gaps in my computer skills. But the system is very simple, and it really guides you through everything. I am grateful for it. Thank you for all your work. I wish you further success in your future work too.
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