Psychoanalytic method: free association technique

The free association method has been widely used in psychology for quite some time. Its author is one of the most famous and scandalous psychoanalysts in history, Sigmund Freud. It was he who proposed this method and used it throughout his career, passed it on to his students and included it in the so-called psychoanalysis, thanks to which he gained his fame. If you want to learn more about the free association method, what it is and what it is used for, then this article is for you.

Sigmund Freud

If we talk about the method of free association, then it is necessary to mention the one who introduced this method, namely Sigmund Freud. He lived and worked in the second half of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century. He was born in the Austrian Empire in the city of Freiberg, which currently belongs to the Czech Republic. He made enormous contributions to psychology, and his works are still used and appreciated, studied in universities and put into practice, although not as actively as before. He founded a three-component structure of the psyche, introducing the concepts of “I”, “it” and “super-ego”. It was Freud who told the world about the psychosexual phases of human development, he described the protective mechanisms of the human psyche and much more, which as a result developed into a full-fledged psychological and psychiatric direction, which was called “Freudianism.” And it is within the framework of Freudianism that there is so-called psychoanalysis, which shook the world of psychology and psychiatry in its time. Its key component is the method of free association, so we cannot talk about it without talking directly about psychoanalysis as a whole.

Exercise-test “16 associations” (Jung's associative test). Universal for working with problems

Table of contents

• Jung's 16 Associations Test
• Analyzing the first column
• Let's move on to analyzing the second column
• Let's look at the third column: What is the reason?
• Analysis of the fourth and fifth columns is the key to yourself

16 Associations exercise-test helps to identify the deep roots of any problem, get to the bottom, the real cause of your problem, as well as other people’s life programs that prevent you from achieving success in a certain area of ​​life.
The prototype of the test is the method of free association, which was used by Carl Jung . He used it to establish a person’s motivations, and this method is described very well and artistically in Karel Capek’s story “Professor Rouss’s Experiment . Over time, the method was transformed into a method for working with problems, but the author’s name remained in the title (“ Jung’s Association Test ” or “ Jung’s 16 Association Test” ). Thanks to this technique, a person can come to the realization of what is gnawing at him and begin to eliminate his psychological problems. First of all, this test does not serve to solve any difficulties according to the principle: “Solve the problem!”, but is aimed at identifying intrapsychic conflicts, unconscious fears, feelings of guilt, denial and everything that is not visible on the surface.

The test is quite simple and takes 10–15 minutes to complete. For the initial formulation, you need a set of words that are associated with the problematic situation that has developed today. As a result of analysis, by pulling the selected keywords like a string and bringing to light the main associations associated with it, you can clearly identify the influence of the subconscious, since the activation of many associations occurs simultaneously and in a fraction of a second. What is needed to take the test? You need a piece of paper and a pen. On a piece of paper you need to draw the following sign: Study word

Now comes the fun part. You need to take any area where you think you have a problem: family, health, happiness, love, man, woman, children, sex, work, leisure, vocation, money...

That is, it can be anything. The test is universal and allows you to identify the source of imbalance in any area that you decide to explore.

MONEY as an example . And if you haven’t chosen any area for research, then also stop at money. I am sure that the results of the study will surprise you and allow you to look at the area of ​​your personal finances from a completely different perspective.

So, we have chosen money, what next? Taste this word. What associations does it evoke for you?

Now quickly, without much thinking, write in the first (left) column of the table 16 associations associated with the word “ MONEY ” (your word under study).

I hope it’s clear what an association is. This can be any word, phrase, catchphrase, interjection... And it is not necessarily related in meaning to the main word “ MONEY ”.

Did you manage? Great!

Don’t read further until you do this, otherwise I know you, the main thing is to run through the text diagonally and run further. Don’t do this, otherwise you will get everything again as always - zilch on vegetable oil. Thought must end in action. Once in her book “Where they distribute unconditional faith in themselves,” Tatyana Morozova wrote about what real understanding of something is.

“Understanding leads to the fact that a person PHYSICALLY cannot remain who he was before. Otherwise understanding is just an illusion. I understood - that means I did it. Anyone who has once experienced what it means to do what is yours will never agree to a surrogate. For example, when a person understands that the cause of his illness is hyper-touchiness, then he physically cannot continue to be offended by anyone. Understanding is necessarily supported by actions. No action - no understanding.

Understanding comes to the head through the heart, i.e. through feelings, which give a person the necessary energy to translate understanding into action. It’s as if a person has an internal source of energy and finds ways to bring his plans to life.”

This quote makes you look at some things differently. Why do you seem to understand everything, but don’t do anything? This means that this is really an illusion of understanding, and you yourself are still far from it. Now you have a valuable criterion of understanding; if it is not met, then it is an illusion.

After we got rid of illusions and still completed this simple task - we wrote 16 associations that first came to mind for the word under study, we go further and fill out the second column.

It is also easy to fill out - now connect the first word with the second, the third with the fourth, the fifth with the sixth, etc. and write in the second column from the left the key association derived from the pair of words .

Example:

By the way, an association is not a conclusion. That is, the association can be anything, not necessarily logically connected with the previous words. The words “rest” and “health” may cause someone to associate “resort”, while others may associate it with “sanatorium” (I remember my first package holiday, where I improved my health). The most important thing here is to feel that it is this word, and no other, that jumps out from the subconscious as uniting this pair of words.

So, in the second column you have 8 words.

The next stage (have you guessed it yet?) is to again connect the first word with the second, the third with the fourth, and so on, and write key associations in the third column in the same way. Now there will be 4 of them.

And then, as you might guess, combine the words again, derive associations again (2 in total). And finally, by combining the last two words you get the final association. What you associate the word “ MONEY ” with (your word being studied).

The last word is the key!

How do you like this word? Are you surprised or is this the expected result? How did you feel while doing this task? And were you interested? Have you discovered something new about yourself?

Quite often it turns out to be a complete surprise what kind of associations can jump out of the subconscious. What can you say about the last word? What does it mean to you?

To decipher the results, let’s take the interpretation outlined by Elena Shubina in her book “How to Attract Money.”

The general decryption looks like this:

Analyzing the first column

The first column of words reflects several points at once:

1. Our “level of reality”. This is what fills our daily lives. At the level of reality, our “stamps” “live”, beliefs that have no serious basis, but nevertheless influence our lives.

For example, a good half of city residents claim that they are afraid of mice, rats, snakes, and enter the entrance almost with their eyes closed, but rarely have any of them ever seen a live mouse in their entrance! Why are they afraid of them? This is a cliche - “women are afraid of mice,” and since I’m a woman, I should be afraid.

The same thing happens with money (any other word being studied). We think in cliches and these cliches are clearly visible in the first column.

Money is dirt, money is a lie, money is a test, money is pity, money is charity, big money is obtained dishonestly, etc.

It's interesting that money is such a topic that everyone has something to say about. But few of those who talk about money actually have money. Therefore, discussions about money are, by definition, the most stupid. Few of the debaters understand what they are talking about, but nevertheless, everyone has cliches in their heads.

2. At the first level of our test, the strategy for obtaining what we are studying is also very visible. In our example, the strategy for getting money.

• Someone is an honest hard worker and his words: “Work, plow, hard, tired, don’t give it, boss, salary...”
• And someone thinks that money should fall from the sky: “I want it, give it to me, a bank, a yacht, a plane, a cruise, an inheritance...”

Analyze how you are doing with the way you receive money.

The first person from my example will most likely work hard and conscientiously all his life, but if easy money comes into his life (let’s say he receives an inheritance), he will not know what to do with it, and “out of grief” he will get sick or will drink.

The second one will continue to wait for the weather by the sea, be angry that the yachts still don’t arrive, and be offended by the world. But it is unlikely that it would occur to him that money can simply be earned.

It happens that a person has already outgrown the previous strategy, like short pants, but still does not understand that it is time to abandon it. So the Ugly Duckling, who had long ago become a Swan, out of habit hid from the swan flock in the bushes.

3. Also, the first column of words allows you to assess the level of pessimism - optimism in relation to your money situation.

To determine it, read 16 words and try to evaluate - as you get closer to the end, do the words become more optimistic or less optimistic?

Example:

If the level of optimism goes up, good. This means that no matter what financial situation you are in now, you will overcome everything. You are on the right path and everything will be fine for you.

If the level of optimism goes down, it’s bad. But I hope that thanks to the test results, you will reconsider some of your beliefs and achieve success in a timely manner.

4. The next thing we analyze in the first column is the fears and beliefs induced (transposed, imposed) on us. Sometimes they are also called “mind viruses.” This is something that for some reason you took into account, although if you think about it, it has nothing to do with you.

Thus, parents very often transfer their fears onto their children. “A lot of money is a shame.” But my parents picked up this belief at a time when it was completely impossible to earn a lot by honest work, unless you belonged to a very narrow bohemian or scientific stratum. Therefore, they sincerely believed in it. But for what reason do you still carry this belief with you?

There is simply a darkness in our consciousness of false and alien attitudes. We are saturated through and through with other people's ideas, plans, motives and fears. Now we have a difficult task ahead of us - to catch these other people's troubles in our test.

I asked you to write this test by hand on a piece of paper. And this is very important precisely in order to detect “strangers”.

Interesting: people often identify handwritten “virus words” using hidden signs (mistakes, blots, a word is written with a capital letter, and all the rest are written with a small letter, or, conversely, the word is written smaller or larger).

When I performed this test myself, it turned out that I wrote all the words carefully and completely, and only one word was not completely written - responsibility. When I began to think about him, my mother immediately appeared before my eyes, telling me that big money is always a responsibility.

But analyzing what is written by hand is not the only way to detect “strangers.” Do the following - read the first column out loud, quickly, in one breath, trying to pronounce the words clearly and tracking your emotions and bodily sensations.

Most likely, a wave of disagreement will rise in you at some word, as if it was not you who wrote it. You may even feel a drop in energy, instant fatigue and apathy.

For me, out of the 16 words I wrote down, the word “labor” became the word. And then again the picture of my mother surfaced, as she said that you need to work hard so that everything in your life is good.

Elena Shubina gives the following example in her book:

Even if you are not an expert in psychology, you can feel that the person who wrote this set of associations is a hard worker, standing firmly on his feet, understanding earthly pleasures and oriented towards the future.

But where did this terrible word “begging” come from? It rudely breaks into the list of associations linguistically (if this word belonged to the person himself, he would have written - poverty). And it breaks the connection between the logical block, where the main motives and strategy of this person are clearly visible (work well - have a good rest, and don’t forget about the children). It becomes clear what this person spends his energy on. To avoid this very “begging” at any cost.

When I asked the person who wrote this column about the origin of the word “begging,” he remembered that as a child his mother often yelled at him: “Study, stupid, if you don’t learn, they won’t hire you, you’ll be begging!” He studied, graduated from two universities, works hard in a management position at a state enterprise, because he is sure that it is more stable. Many times I received invitations to go into private business, both on a salary and as a partner, but I always refused. Why? He says that he doesn’t like to take risks, but at the same time he drives a car at great speed, he goes alone into the taiga to hunt a bear, that is, you can’t call him not a risk-taker. He says he's slowed down. He promises himself to change something, but does not find the strength. Is he afraid of poverty? Yes, but he tries not to think about it; if such a thought comes, he drowns it out with a shot of good vodka. This is a typical case. After working with the test and removing maternal programming, I tried to combine my main job with management in a private business. Now he runs a large timber processing plant in Siberia. Other people's fears and beliefs take away much more strength and energy from us than our own, and force us to do completely unthinkable things. It has been noticed that the most common way to drown out the “voice” of someone else’s beliefs is alcohol. Is this why in our country, where everyone lived only according to orders, there are so many people who drink heavily? But let's get back to the test.

When you find thought-form viruses on your list, think about their origin. Perhaps you will remember the edifying look of the old teacher, the instructions of the father and the admonitions of the grandparents. But, oddly enough, most often we all remember our mother. That's who basically puts everything in our heads.

Now that you understand where you got it from and, perhaps, even remember how much you had to lose or not do because of it, give up this word - belief.

How? Just cross it out and write a new one in its place. Any word, not necessarily close in meaning, but chosen by you personally.

Let's move on to analyzing the second column

The second column is the level of intelligence. This is what I think about it. Let me explain... The fact is that most people do not think about their problems at all. They bathe in them, live in them, worry about them, talk a lot, but think very little. But in vain... Sometimes a good, strong, unemotional analysis would give much more than hours of exciting conversations.

At this level, your personally limiting beliefs come out.

Example:

• Not sure
• Equality
• Age
• Asking is bad

In decoding it would sound like this:

• This won't work for me.
• I don’t have enough education, start-up capital, or experience.
• Wrong age, it’s too late... Etc.

Analyze the second column of your test and find limiting beliefs and obstacles in it. If they are, think about them by asking the question: “Why do I think this is so?”

Each time, ask yourself a clarifying question until you are convinced that you have arrived at the absurd. Having caught yourself on the absurdity of the arguments, laugh at them and part with your conviction, like shoes that have gone out of fashion.

Here is an example of a typical dialogue between a psychologist and a person stuck on his belief: - Conviction: “I’m not the same age anymore.” - What is “that” age? - Well, 20 years. — When you were 20 years old, what could you do? - Nothing. - And now? - Now I can, I have education and experience. - So why do you think that the age is wrong? - Health is not the same. - What does “that” health mean? - Young. - There were rich people in your family - Yes, your great-grandfather was very rich, he returned from the mines at the age of 40, opened a shop, became a merchant... - How old was your grandfather when he started, and was he in good health? - Yes, no, I returned from the mines, completely ill. - So it’s not a matter of health or age? - It turns out that yes...

This is the kind of dialogue you need to have with yourself for every limiting belief. It is better if the dialogue is conducted in writing.

Let's look at the third column: What is the reason?

The third column is the level of feelings. It shows our “emotional hooks”. “Tails” of the past, fears, causes of emotional conflicts.

Example:

• Want
• Afraid
• Lie
• Mother

These are the words from a young woman's test. At the time of testing, she was planning to marry a rich man and move abroad. Her parents categorically did not approve of her choice. This was already the third candidate for husband, the previous two were rejected thanks to their parents. The woman was afraid of her parents, afraid of men, their money, possible changes in life, everything... But the reason lay precisely in the fear of her mother’s condemnation.

Take a careful look at this column of just four words, and perhaps you will understand the true reasons for not only financial, but also general trouble.

Interesting : From the words of the third column, you can usually create an expression that can be used as a kind of “slogan” or motto.

Play with words and make up a phrase. Sometimes it’s just a call to action, even if it’s written in capital letters and hung on the wall. And sometimes, as in the case of our heroine, the quintessence of internal experiences.

I had 4 words in the third column:

• Target
• Confidence
• Job
• Luck

The slogan turned out to be as follows: My goal gives confidence that work will bring good luck

Analysis of the fourth and fifth columns is the key to yourself

What are these last key words for you? Think about it.

There is no standard transcript for the last three words. Usually this is a tool for analysis or a hint for further psychological work. There, a person’s key fears, true and not far-fetched causes of problems, as well as genuine motives can “pop out”. One thing is clear, if the meaning of the words - the keys - is far from the associated concept (in our case, this is money), the root of the problem lies in spheres and planes that are far from the sphere of money as such.

This means that the financial situation will not improve until the real problem is worked out and solved. As a rule, it is organically tied to one of three:

1. problem of parent-child relationships;
2. self-esteem;
3. system of values

Now take a piece of paper and draw the last word.

• If it is good, save the drawing. This is your energy resource.
• If it’s bad, look at it for a while, say goodbye and solemnly burn it.

The work with the test is now complete. I hope it led you to some useful discoveries.

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What is psychoanalysis?

So, what place does the method of free association have in psychoanalysis? Freud based his work precisely on this method. Therefore, we can safely say that it is fundamental to psychoanalysis.

Psychoanalysis is a branch of psychology founded by Sigmund Freud. He believed that every person’s psyche is divided into conscious and unconscious. And psychoanalysis, unlike all other directions, was focused on working with the unconscious. This meant that studying the patient’s situation, helping him, and treating him were carried out using not the most traditional methods, which even included the interpretation of dreams. Over time, naturally, these methods became generally accepted, and the method of free association, examples of which will be discussed below, generally became one of the leading ones in psychology and psychiatry.

What is this method?

The method of free association in psychoanalysis, as you already understand, occupies a leading place and plays a vital role. But what is he? As mentioned earlier, Freud's psychoanalysis is aimed at the unconscious in the human psyche, and it is on the basis of this that this method works. Its essence lies in the fact that the psychoanalyst does not try to work with the patient’s rational thoughts and ideas, he tries to get to the very depths, to what the person’s consciousness is trying to hide from everyone around him and even from himself. But how exactly does it work? How to get to that hidden place in the human psyche? The free word association method is an ideal tool for getting exactly what the psychoanalyst needs.

Associations in psychology

Definition 1
The method of free association is a psychoanalytic procedure for studying the unconscious, when an individual says everything that comes to his mind, regardless of even the absurdity or obscenity of the statements.

The term was introduced in the 17th century by the English philosopher J. Locke, although the phenomenon itself was known back in the time of Aristotle.

Association is Latin for connection and has many meanings. In psychology, this term denotes a spontaneous connection between objects, phenomena of reality, and imaginary images that arise in the human brain.

Such connections can be caused by words, smells, sounds, or information stored in memory.

Associations can also arise as a result of internal processes occurring in human organs. One’s own thoughts can provoke a whole fan of associations - one random thought causes a second, seemingly completely unrelated to the first, a third, fourth, etc. cling to it.

The associations are based on a reflex reaction that occurs in the cerebral cortex when exposed to a strong stimulus.

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Excitation spreads through neurons, and its waves capture new areas of the cerebral cortex. As a result, former centers of excitement are activated and evoke feelings, ideas, and images from memory, which are included in the thinking process and actualize new images.

T. Buzan compared associative thinking to fireworks. For consciousness to function normally and thinking to be effective, the process of creating associations is important.

This depends on a number of factors:

• on the speed of nervous processes - the higher it is, the faster and more diverse the associations that arise;
• from connecting to the thinking level of the subconscious, where information unconscious to a person is stored, and associations are a channel of communication with this mysterious level of the psyche.

Emerging associative images undergo processing and transformation, as a result, new images are created, which is the work of the imagination;

Each person has his own experience and information stored in his memory, so associations will have an individual character.

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However, the commonality of some people's experiences, interests and professional activities lead to lasting connections.

Aristotle was already involved in the classification of associations, identifying three types of connections. Aristotle's classification is still used today.

Classification by similarity - in order for a connection to arise in the human brain between two objects or phenomena, they must be similar, for example, in color, emotional impact, appearance - a snowy plain is associated with a white desert, etc.

By contiguity - this type of connection is quite common and occurs when two objects are often perceived simultaneously, for example, the smell of pine needles and tangerines is associated with the New Year.

By contrast, this type of association is one of the most complex and difficult to explain. The evoked associations have opposite meanings, for example, night - day, winter - summer, morning - evening, etc.

Aristotle's classification was later supplemented with another type - associations by meaning. These associations are the result of the analysis of information and the emergence of complex logical and semantic connections in the human cerebral cortex. For example, rain is associated with a runny nose.

How is this method carried out?

So, the essence of the method is that the psychoanalyst allows his patient to say absolutely everything that comes to his mind. He doesn't ask leading questions or try to find out anything specific. He does not ask to restrain any emotions - the patient can and should tell everything that comes to his mind, even the most indecent and vulgar things. The job of a psychoanalyst is to listen to the patient, write down everything that pours out of the patient’s mouth in a stream of consciousness, and then justify the name of his profession, that is, analyze the information received. At first glance, this may seem a little absurd - what can be learned from a stream of words that is not limited by anything? However, in reality, everything is not as simple as it might seem. Freud would not have become so famous if it were just a stream of consciousness and not something more.

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Carl Jung used free association as a lie detector because it helped determine a person's motivation. Thanks to this technique, a person can come to the realization of what is gnawing at him and begin to eliminate his psychological problems.

The “16 Associations” exercise works similar to Jung’s association test, and it will not take more than 15 minutes to complete. If you want to better understand your own feelings and understand what you really need, Jung’s association test is an unsurpassed assistant in this matter.

The human brain is designed in such a way that, if it is necessary to remember something, it is encoded by a set of visual images, information from the senses and associated sensations in the body and emotions.

What will you get from the “16 associations” exercise?

• Awareness of what influences your perception and subconscious attitude towards a situation/phenomenon/fact. Even if you make no attempt to work on the area from which the word was chosen, after 3-6 months you will get a completely different result when you take the test again. This is all the work of the subconscious - when thoughts and associations are put on paper, a person begins to analyze them in any case.
• Transformational effect. Through conscious perception, a change in attitude occurs and there is a reasonable scientific explanation for this. A person remembers not the event itself, but the last memory associated with it. The more new associations we apply to a keyword, the more the circuit that is activated by that word will change. Depending on what emotions arise during associations, the change in the future emotional color of the chain and the feelings that will arise the next time this word is remembered depends. Thus, the brighter the emotion, the stronger the rewriting effect.
• You receive a ready-made map for further work on yourself - it becomes clear what can be used as a resource and what should be changed. The higher the awareness, the more determined a person is to change - this will help achieve maximum results after passing the Jung association test.

Jung's association test: exercise “16 associations” For the exercise to be effective, it should be performed in absolute peace and solitude.

It’s easy to fill out - connect the first word with the second, the third with the fourth, the fifth with the sixth, etc. and write in the second column from the left the Association derived from the pair of words.

Example:

• Think about what word you would like to work with. For example, if you think that you are currently experiencing financial difficulties, let it be the word “money,” and if you think you are lonely, write the word “love.” Draw the following sign on a piece of paper:

Research word

• As quickly as possible, without hesitation, enter in the left column all the associations that you have with this word - any phrases, catchphrases, words.
• Next, fill out the second column - you need to combine the words into pairs - 1 and 2, 3 and 4, 5 and 6, etc. In the second column you need to enter associations that arise when combining words into pairs.
• To fill the third column, you need to do the same thing - combine the 8 words received in pairs and display associations; we do the same with the 4th column.
• As a result, you get a key word - something with which you can unravel the tangle of problems and get rid of negative attitudes.

If over the next few days you do not let the keyword out of your head, trying to apply it to various areas of your life, then many thoughts may appear that will help you better understand yourself and your subconscious.

Analyzing the first column The first column of words reflects several points at once: 1. Our “level of reality”. This is what fills our daily lives. At the level of reality, our “stamps” “live”, beliefs that have no serious basis, but nevertheless influence our lives. For example, a good half of city residents claim that they are afraid of mice, rats, snakes, and enter the entrance almost with their eyes closed, but rarely have any of them ever seen a live mouse in their entrance! Why are they afraid of them? This is a cliche - “women are afraid of mice,” and since I’m a woman, I should be afraid. The same thing happens with money (any other word being studied). We think in cliches and these cliches are clearly visible in the first column. Money is dirt, money is a lie, money is a test, money is pity, money is charity, a lot of money is obtained dishonestly, etc. It is interesting that money is a topic on which everyone has something to say. But few of those who talk about money actually have money. Therefore, discussions about money are, by definition, the most stupid. Few of the debaters understand what they are talking about, but nevertheless, everyone has cliches in their heads. 2. At the first level of our test, the strategy for obtaining what we are studying is also very visible. In our example, the strategy for getting money.

• Someone is an honest hard worker and his words: “Work, plow, it’s hard, tired, they don’t give it, the boss, the salary...”.
• And someone thinks that money should fall from the sky: “I want it, give it to me, a bank, a yacht, a plane, a cruise, an inheritance...”.

Analyze how you are doing with the way you receive money. The first person from my example will most likely work hard and conscientiously all his life, but if easy money comes into his life (let’s say he receives an inheritance), he will not know what to do with it, and “out of grief” he will get sick or will drink. The second one will continue to wait for the weather by the sea, be angry that the yachts still don’t arrive, and be offended by the world. But it is unlikely that it would occur to him that money can simply be earned. It happens that a person has already outgrown the previous strategy, like short pants, but still does not understand that it is time to abandon it. So the Ugly Duckling, who had long ago become a Swan, out of habit hid from the swan flock in the bushes. 3. Also, the first column of words allows you to assess the level of pessimism - optimism in relation to your money situation. To determine it, read 16 words and try to evaluate - as you get closer to the end, do the words become more optimistic or less optimistic?
Example: The level of optimism is going up
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If the level of optimism goes up, good! This means that no matter what financial situation you are in now, you will overcome everything! You are on the right path and everything will be fine for you. If the level of optimism goes down - bad! But I hope that thanks to the test results, you will reconsider some of your beliefs and achieve success in a timely manner! 4. The next thing we analyze in the first column is the fears and beliefs induced (transposed, imposed) on us. Sometimes they are also called “viruses of consciousness . This is something that for some reason you took into account, although if you think about it, it has nothing to do with you. So, parents very often transfer their fears onto their children! A lot of money is a shame. But my parents picked up this belief at a time when it was completely impossible to earn a lot by honest work unless you belonged to a very narrow bohemian or scientific stratum. Therefore, they sincerely believed in it. But for what reason do you still carry this belief with you? There is simply a darkness of false and alien attitudes floating in our consciousness! We are saturated through and through with other people's ideas, plans, motives and fears. Now we have a difficult task ahead of us - to catch these ALIEN'S problems in our test! Write this test by hand on a piece of paper! And this is very important precisely in order to detect “strangers”! Interesting! People often identify handwritten “virus words” using hidden signs (mistakes, blots, a word is written with a capital letter, and all the rest are written with a small letter, or, conversely, the word is written smaller or larger). When I performed this test myself, it turned out that I wrote all the words accurately and completely, and only one word was not completely written - responsibility. When I began to think about him, my mother immediately appeared before my eyes, telling me that big money is always a responsibility. But analyzing what is written by hand is not the only way to detect “strangers.” Do the following - read the first column out loud, quickly, in one breath, trying to pronounce the words clearly and tracking your emotions and bodily sensations. Most likely, at some word, a wave of disagreement will rise in you, as if it was not you who wrote it. You may even feel a drop in energy, instant fatigue and apathy. For me, out of the 16 words I wrote down, the word “labor” became the word. And then again the picture of my mother surfaced, as she said that you need to work hard so that everything in your life is good.

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Even without being an expert in psychology, you can feel that the person who wrote this set of associations is a hard worker, standing firmly on his feet, understanding a lot about earthly pleasures, and oriented towards the future. But where did this terrible word “begging” come from? It rudely breaks into the list of associations linguistically (if this word belonged to the person himself, he would have written - poverty). And it breaks the connection between the logical block, where the main motives and strategy of this person are clearly visible (work well, rest well, and don’t forget about the children). It becomes clear what this person spends his energy on. To avoid this very “begging” at any cost. When I asked the person who wrote this column about the origin of the word “begging,” he remembered that as a child his mother often yelled at him: “Study, you idiot, if you don’t learn, they won’t hire you, you’ll be begging!” He studied, graduated from two universities, works hard in a management position at a state enterprise, because he is sure that it is more stable. Many times I received invitations to go into private business, both on a salary and as a partner, but I always refused. Why? He says that he doesn’t like to take risks, but at the same time he drives a car at great speed, he goes alone into the taiga to hunt a bear, that is, you can’t call him not a risk-taker. He says he slowed down. He promises himself to change something, but does not find the strength. Is he afraid of poverty? Yes, but he tries not to think about it; if such a thought comes, he drowns it out with a shot of good vodka. This is a typical case. After working with the test and removing maternal programming, I tried to combine my main job with management in a private business. Now he runs a large timber processing plant. Other people's fears and beliefs take away much more strength and energy from us than our own, and force us to do completely unthinkable things! It has been noticed that the most common way to drown out the “voice” of someone else’s beliefs is alcohol. Is this why in our country, where everyone lived only according to orders, there are so many people who drink heavily? But let's get back to the test. When you find thought-form viruses on your list, think about their origin . Perhaps you will remember the edifying look of the old teacher, the instructions of the father and the admonitions of the grandparents. But oddly enough, most often we all remember our mother. That's who basically puts everything in our heads. Now that you understand where you got it from and, perhaps, even remember how much you had to lose or not do because of it, give up this word - belief! How? Just cross it out and write a new one in its place! Any word, not necessarily close in meaning, but chosen by you personally. Let's move on to the analysis of the second column . The second column is the level of the mind! That's what I think about it! Let me explain... The fact is that most people do not think about their problems at all. They bathe in them, live in them, worry about them, talk a lot, but think very little! But in vain... Sometimes a good, strong, unemotional analysis would give much more than hours of exciting conversations. At this level, your own limiting beliefs come out! Example:

• Not sure
• Equality
• Age
• Asking is bad

In decoding it would sound like this:

• This won't work for me.
• I don’t have enough education... start-up capital... experience...
• Wrong age... It's too late... Etc.

Analyze the second column of your test and find limiting beliefs and obstacles in it. If they are, think about them by asking the question: “Why do I think this is so?” Each time, ask yourself a clarifying question until you are convinced that you have arrived at the absurd. Having caught yourself on the absurdity of the arguments, laugh at them and part with your conviction, like shoes that have gone out of fashion. Here is an example of a typical dialogue between a psychologist and a person stuck on his conviction: - Conviction: I am no longer the same age. - What is “that” age? - Well, 20 years. — When you were 20 years old, what could you do? - Nothing. - And now? - Now I can, I have education and experience. - So why do you think that the age is wrong? - Health is not the same. - What does “that” health mean? - Young. - There were rich people in your family - Yes, your great-grandfather was very rich, he returned from the mines at the age of 40, opened a shop, became a merchant... - How old was your grandfather when he started, and was he in good health? Yes, no, he returned from the mines, completely ill. So it's not a matter of health or age? - It turns out that yes... This is the kind of dialogue you need to have with yourself for every limiting belief. It is better if the dialogue is conducted in writing. Let's look at the third column - What is the reason? The third column is the level of feelings! It shows our “emotional hooks”! “Tails” of the past, fears, causes of emotional conflicts. Example:

• Want
• Afraid
• Lie
• Mother

These are the words from a young woman's test. At the time of testing, she was planning to marry a rich man and move abroad. Her parents categorically did not approve of her choice. This was already the third candidate for husband, the previous two were rejected thanks to their parents. The woman was afraid of her parents, afraid of men, their money, possible changes in life, everything... But the reason lay precisely in the fear of her mother’s condemnation. Take a careful look at this column of just four words, and perhaps you will understand the true reasons for not only financial, but also general trouble. Interesting! From the words in the third column you can usually create an expression that can be used as a kind of “slogan” or motto! Play with words and make up a phrase. Sometimes it’s just a call to action, even if it’s written in capital letters and hung on the wall. And sometimes, as in the case of our heroine, the quintessence of internal experiences. I had 4 words in the third column:

• Target
• Confidence
• Job
• Luck

The slogan turned out to be as follows: My goal gives me confidence that work will bring good luck Analysis of the fourth and fifth columns is the key to yourself What are these last keywords for you? Think about it! There is no standard transcript for the last three words. Usually this is a tool for analysis or a hint for further psychological work. There, a person’s key fears, true and not far-fetched causes of problems, as well as genuine motives can “pop out”. One thing is clear, if the meaning of the words - the keys - is far from the associated concept (in our case, this is money), the root of the problem lies in spheres and planes that are far from the sphere of money as such. This means that the financial situation will not improve until the real problem is worked out and solved. As a rule, it is organically tied to one of three:

• problem of parent-child relationships;
• self-esteem;
• system of values

Now take a piece of paper and draw the last word!

• If it's good, save the drawing! This is your energy resource!
• If it’s bad, look at it for a while, say goodbye and solemnly burn it!

The work with the test is now complete. I hope it led you to some useful discoveries!

Working with the unconscious

So what is the secret that makes the free association method so popular and effective? Interpreting information received from a patient is not a search for a grain of common sense in a stream of nonsense, as many seem to think. In fact, Sigmund Freud believed that every person has a division of the psyche into conscious and unconscious, and psychoanalysts until that time addressed only the conscious. This means that they asked their patients logical questions, to which they consciously gave logical answers. However, at the same time, consciousness did not allow the deepest problems to come out - no one consciously wanted to admit to them, and often could not even, because they did not suspect their existence, since consciousness reliably protected them. What is different about the free association method? The thing is that this method removed all restrictions of consciousness - the patient was forbidden to think about what he was saying, try to weigh words, filter ideas. He had to say absolutely everything that came into his head. It was due to this that the path was made to the most hidden problems in the depths of the subconscious, which the patient did not want or even could not tell his psychoanalyst when he was asked directly or indirectly, that is, turning to his conscious, and not the unconscious.

Psychological Test “Association”

The method of free association is actively used in psychoanalysis. The essence of the method is that a person unconsciously makes an associative connection to a stimulus word with words that describe his problem.

This test, like all association tests, is used to identify a person’s personality traits. Your answers to the test questions determine your values ​​and ideals, your attitude towards yourself, towards others and towards life in general.

The psychological test “Association” is a determinant of your attitude towards family, money, loved ones and life in general. It can be called humorous, but it is still largely true, especially if you answer the questions honestly and do not overthink it.

To take the test you will need a pen, pencil and a piece of paper. Your task is to answer the questions without looking at the lines below, otherwise you will not get the desired result. Answer the questions in detail, express your thoughts in as much detail as possible. You can supplement your answers with a drawing.

You should not give yourself much time to think: the first association is the most correct. Write down the very first thing that comes to mind, and then decipher the meaning of what you wrote down and find out what is hidden in your subconscious.

Exercise 1.

Describe (in a few sentences possible) what associations you have:

• Coffee.
• Dog.
• Cat.
• Sea.
• Rat.

Task 2.

Arrange the animals according to your attitude towards them (starting with the ones you like best):

• Pig.
• Cow.
• Horse.
• Tiger.
• Sheep.

Task 3.

Think of 5 people you often think about and choose a color for each of them:

• Red.
• Yellow.
• Green.
• White.
• Orange.

Key to the test

Exercise 1.

Associations with coffee reflect your interest in sex.
You think you're writing about a dog , but you're really thinking about yourself.

The description of the cat matches the idea of ​​your partner.

The sea reflects your ideas about others.

The rat is your enemy.

Task 2.

You have set your life priorities, since each animal in the subconscious is associated with a specific subject or concept. A sheep means love, a pig means money, a cow means a career, a tiger means dignity and honor, a horse means family.

Task 3.

The person to whom you assigned the color red is the one you truly love.

Yellow refers to someone you will not forget throughout your life, even if you really want to.

The person to whom the color green is assigned is your true friend.

Orange characterizes the one whom you consider to be your best friend.

White is the color of a person close to you in spirit.

Think about the test results. Are you satisfied with everything? Maybe something should be changed? Let your subconscious mind itself offer solutions, do not interfere with this process with your mental reflections.

Consider the test results only as food for thought, as starting points that you should pay attention to when choosing a further strategy. An Online Psychologist will help you use test results correctly, help you navigate the structure of accents and correct your psychological state.

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Unfree Associations

Despite the fact that this method is called that way, Freud himself did not consider associations specifically “free”. He was of the opinion that they are all controlled by a subconscious process. And thanks to this method, the patient's consciousness can no longer contain everything that was hidden in its depths. It misses this information, since it often comes not in direct, but in symbolic form - this is where an experienced psychoanalyst comes in, who must decipher the received symbols.

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When we work with a client’s request using the QHS technique, we observe an amazing picture: If we manage to find and work out deep associations on the topic of the request at the very beginning, then often the topic itself is either nullified or becomes very insignificant, which the client can easily cope with. This effect depends to the greatest extent on the therapist’s ability to reach the deep associative connections of the request with the client. The “16 Associations” technique will help you break through to this deep level, bypassing the client’s mental traps and resistance.

“16 Associations” is an exercise from the field of psycholinguistics aimed at finding your deepest association to one word or concept that is important to you.
Our brain is designed in such a way that when we need to remember something, it is encoded by a set of visual images, information from the senses and associated emotions and sensations in the body - that is, what is already in our long-term memory. Moreover, all these “pieces of memory” are also, in turn, encoded by a similar set, which is why the activation of one of the memories activates entire circuits. These are associations and chains of associations.

Using the “16 Associations” exercise, you can pull on a chosen keyword, like a string, and pull out the main associations associated with it - to find the one that has the greatest influence on our perception of the keyword. This influence is almost always subconscious - after all, the activation of many associations occurs simultaneously and in a split second.

The result of the “16 associations” technique 1. Awareness of what influences our perception and subconscious attitude towards the situation/phenomenon/fact. Even if you complete “16 associations” and do nothing else to work on the area from which you chose the word, and repeat the exercise three to six months later, you will get a different result and see that your attitude towards the keyword has changed . This is how awareness works: having unloaded our thoughts and associations onto a white sheet, we humans simply cannot help but begin to analyze them. Firstly, by transferring words from our heads to paper, we have freed up some of our brain resources, secondly, we see graphically expressed relationships, and thirdly, we are curious. Why is this so? Where did this and that come from? We reflect, remember, analyze, draw conclusions - and get a second benefit.

2. Transformational effect. Conscious perception changes the attitude, and this also has an explanation in the mechanisms of memory: scientists have found that we do not remember the event itself, but the last memory of it. The more new associations we attach to a keyword, the more the circuit activated by that word will change. The emotions that color these associations will determine how much the overall emotional coloring of the chain will change - and what feelings we will have the next time we remember this word. And we know that the brighter the emotion, the stronger (and faster) the rewriting effect will be.

3. We receive a ready-made map for further work and clarification of the request. It becomes clear what can be used as a resource, and what and why needs to be changed.

So, awareness, transformational effect and the question “So what now, when...”. The higher the awareness, the more honest a person is with himself and the more sincerely he is determined to work on himself, the stronger the changes will be as a result of performing the technique.

TECHNIQUE.

We choose the word we will work with. When asking for pregnancy in case of infertility, this is the word Child or Pregnancy Think about Pregnancy... Pregnancy in general in general... Pregnancy as a concept... your personal Pregnancy... Now write in a column 16 of your associations to the word Pregnancy. These can be nouns, adverbs, verbs, pronouns... The main rule is that not a single word should be repeated throughout the entire exercise.

Combine the resulting words in brackets of two - the first with the second, the third with the fourth, and so on. For each pair, find the word that combines these concepts for you. Be as honest as possible, listen to yourself - this should be yours, your personal association with these two words. When you have 8 words, we again combine them into pairs in order.

And again find your association for each pair of words. Be careful, listen to yourself. Does this word resonate with you?.. The more honest, the more sincere you are with yourself, the stronger the result will be. We continue until there is only one word left.

Please note that when finding the last word - a deep association - there is always a reaction in the body.

Pay attention to positive and negative words - which ones are more? In which column? Deep association is not a concept itself, it is an anchor that pulls the associative chain. And only you can decide whether to use it to enhance your potential or rewrite it. “Keys” to the “16 associations” technique - what is hidden in each column: The first column of words shows the writer’s stereotypes, superficial and completely conscious associations. What was put into our heads as children, and what we ourselves absorbed from the environment, TV/Internet and society...

The second column is the level of thoughts, what we think about in connection with the keyword.

The third is images of our emotions in relation to the keyword. Last - the last two words before the key word help to identify the root of the problem, the most significant issues and internal choice strategies. During the exercise, it is important to focus not on generally accepted associations, but on your own personal ones that resonate within you. If stupor occurs, say a few words within yourself again and again and listen to what unites them or what they are not both for you. Correctly found association gives a clear bodily reaction, especially the last, deep one.

The second tip is to pay attention to the sensations in your body. If the association you find is yours, you will feel it literally, with your body. The bodily reaction will be especially strong when finding the last word, that very deep association. The reaction is quite strong, and the one who performed the exercise will never be able to hide from himself whether he is comfortable with such a deep association or not, whether it is negative or positive. If the same word comes to you at different levels over and over again (and you cannot repeat already used words in the exercise), then this is a hint from your subconscious. Most likely, the chain triggered by this particular word influences your perception of the first one. It is very useful to invite the client to do the same exercise, leading him into the state of the Inner Child. Compare the results. A deep internal conflict may surface and there will be an active request for a therapy session.

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Interpretation

Interpretation is no less important a tool in psychoanalysis than free association. Without it, this method will not work, since the psychoanalyst will simply be left with a stream of consciousness written down on paper. Interpretation is the process of psychoanalysis by which verbal associations are deciphered and take the form of the essence of the problem that the patient was unconsciously trying to convey. And it is then that you can work on solving it. As you can see, Freud's psychoanalysis turned out to be a real breakthrough in psychology and psychiatry, allowing people to get to the most intimate problems that they could not express consciously. Only with the help of the unconscious was it possible to get to the essence, and that is why Freud's psychoanalysis became so popular and was included in all textbooks on psychology, psychoanalysis and even psycholinguistics.

Translation of creativity

We offer you a translation of the word creativity into English, German and French. Implemented using the Yandex.Dictionary service

• To English
• To German
• To French

• creativity
  - creative, creative work, creativity social creativity - social creativity

• Werk
  - work
• Werke
• Schaffen
  - work
• Schöpfertum
• Kunstschaffen
  - artistic creativity
• Oeuvre
  - creative heritage

• creation
  - work, creation, contemporary creativity - creation contemporaine

Hypo-hyperonymic relationships

change process activity creativity essay article

What is creativity (adjectives)?

Selection of adjectives for words based on the Russian language.

folk literary artistic oral poetic own early free collective scientific children's every pure present musical any late historical technical authentic true living religious further criminal original verbal individual personal inspired song human spiritual composer oral similar subsequent visual mature independent spontaneous writer alien culinary original independent impossible exceptional social related fantastic other rich written genius no executive state Russian amateur unique national multifaceted

What can creativity do? What can you do with creativity (verbs)?

Selection of verbs for words based on the Russian language.

render get have cause like seem bring out perceived flow contribute to be exposed to remain shift bring let develop wear conclude remain flourish have to form differ help serve continue to become help mingle lose capture study create accommodate go determine build pour out act dry up precede attract nickname put appear blossom express consist come down to commemorate arise reflect abound make up absorb considered come count come leave leave offend occupy

Associations to the word creativity

coeloma region curse particular failure year knowledge basis extension point search degree comparison life craft side style law tradition plagiarism help football end west peredelkino setting ocean invention sphere art genre emigration bypass feature science view world condition involvement theater school beach crisis description mass Russia criterion Moldova Republic process work Yalta ardor measure moment servant given era name level college house quality

Hypernyms for creativity

1. activity generation

Hyponyms for creativity

1. essay poetry plot

Scope of use of the word creativity

General vocabulary Legal term Art Advertising Patents

Example of using the method

So, a psychoanalysis session using the method of free association occurs as follows: the patient lies down on the couch, and the psychoanalyst sits on a chair near his head. In most cases, the patient cannot see the psychoanalyst or sees only a small part of him. This is done so that nothing distracts him from a kind of rendezvous with the unconscious. The psychoanalyst does not ask direct questions, as in a standard session - he only helps the patient to plunge into the stream of the unconscious in order to get to the core of the problem, which is hidden due to the defense mechanism of consciousness. As a result, the psychoanalyst receives information, which most often comes not in the form of direct text, but symbolically. Then he, as a professional psychoanalyst, uses his skills to read the essence of the problem in the received images and help the patient solve it.

Other types of free association method

However, not only Freud used this method, other scientists also used it in their practice. One of the most famous among them was Carl Gustav Jung. He also had his own psychoanalysis - now it is even customary to divide psychoanalysis into Freudian and Jungian. However, Jung used the method of free associations a little differently - he placed more emphasis on the fact that associations are free, while Freud himself recognized their lack of freedom, their subordination to the general process, and he himself concentrated directly on associations. But both of these approaches were incredibly successful and eventually became world famous.