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Philippa Thomas uses OH Cards in an inpatient hospitalization setting to help suicidal adolescents recognize their emotions, and the images bring life and visability to feelings that they have trouble verbalizing.

An abstract (in English and Romanian) of a thesis proposal by Mădălina Voicu that includes the study of OH Cards used for therapeutic purposes.

Eric Brunet, a psychotherapist in France, uses OH Cards to help a client with problems in the workplace gain a new perspective.

Bodhi Simpson uses OH Cards in conjunction with art in her art therapy practice to help her clients heal and express themselves in creative ways.

Sharla Erbe’s thoughts on using OH with non-verbal children and adults who can’t access language to process their traumatic experiences.

A translation of a Russian article about the application of associative cards in counseling and psychotherapy for patients with psychosomatic disorders, by a practicing psychoanalytic therapist.

Diane Kukulis used OH Cards in clinical therapy help to further processes in families that might stall just short of getting at core feelings.

In Christine Gatineau’s article, she introduced associative OH Cards and their process of bypassing the mind to allow advancement into the depths of the psyche.

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Survivors of disasters can fall into a vortex of helpless despair – or climb a healing spiral using a variety of resources. One effective tool to aid recovery is the deck of COPE cards.