I recently wrote an article How to make friends between a Persona and a Shadow? Exercise and colleagues in the comments and “in a personal message” asked me to talk about how this exercise can be done using Metaphorical Association Maps. Today I will gladly fulfill this request. I think that there are many ways to make friends between a Person and a Shadow using pictures, but I will tell you only about three. Using portrait drawings or photographs Using plot drawings or photographs Using abstract images Method-1 Take any portrait collection / selection (for those who don’t like the word “deck”) MAC. I am happy to work with Irina Fedorova’s collections “Woman, through the eyes of an artist,” although you can use other decks. Let’s openly choose our Persona and our Shadow. Let’s describe both images with ten adjectives, without assessing ourselves. Let’s see how manifest the qualities you described are in you on a scale from 0 to 10 points. Add up the total points in Persona and Shadow. And see where the amount turned out to be greater. Draw conclusions. Select three cards from any resource deck, face down, as resources that will help you maintain balance or “make friends” of these two parts of yours. Method-2 Everything is the same, only instead of portrait decks we take story decks and openly choose the image of your Shadow and your Persona. Method-3 In this case, the images of the facade and shadow sides of your personality are selected using abstract MAC decks. Moreover, in this case, the choice can be made both openly and closed. This method is the most complex, but also the deepest, because in order to discern something in the abstract, you will have to involuntarily delve into the depths of your Subconscious, and not remove the top layers, as in the first two methods. If you don’t have a MAC, you can easily replace them with pictures from the Internet, which you can select closed by numbers, or open by simply looking at them. In order for the desired pictures to appear, set Google or Yandex queries: Women's portraits Fairy tales Abstract paintings P.S. Screenshots taken from the PsyCards online application, which I use to work on Skype using screen sharing, were used as illustrations. © Family psychologist Natalia Filimonova, 2020. All rights reservedSelection of techniques and exercises:Exercises for all occasionsReal start of psychological practice on website b.17