| Ok I lifted this right out of a psych evaluation manual.. You may have seen something similiar in a job application, if you've tried to take a job where people's lives hang in the balance.
This requires a bit more time and material than the cube, you need a blank piece of paper, preferably full sized, a pencil or pen, and some time.
Draw lines, dividing the paper into six equal sections. In the first section, draw two small circles, close to eachother but not touching. In the next, draw to medium circles, also close but not touching. The third section gets two small triangles, close not touching. The fourth is one large circle.
The fifth is a cross, do it like you drew the outline of a real crucifex, so its kinda thick. The last is simply two plus signs, about the same size and position as the first two small circles.
Hopefully that is understandable enough..
Now have your girl take the pencil, and quickly without too much thought, change each section of figures into a seperate drawing. Its important that she does this without too much thought or concentration, just whatever first comes to mind. Finally, have her label each drawing with an adjective.
The Key is as follows:
1st section - How she views herself
2nd section - How others see her
3rd section - Her childhood
4th section - Her current romantic feelings/situation
5th section - Her future
6th section - Her death
-I ran this one on my roommate, a cute 22 yr old German nurse. She recognized it from her nursing application, but didnt know what it was for.
Funniest thing, while really, really cute, she is a tiny bit on the heavy side since she loves to eat. I "enterpreted" her first section, and then she exclaimed, "Oh no! This means I'm fat?"
I looked at the next section. She had changed the two medium circles into dinner plates, complete with chicken, peas, mashed potatoes, and matching silverware. Underneath, she wrote the word "hungry."
Ok I started laughing and explained it was how others saw her, and she was laughing but she had the saddest look at the same time, so I quickly worked it out to that others saw her as a person who had a lot of energy and sustenance to give in a relationship, but at the same time could feel her need for the same kind of energy back, or perhaps she just needed something more fulfilling in her life. The quick save earned me a kiss. =)
|