Draft translation. This text was translated automatically and has not been proofread yet — if something reads oddly, it does.
This page is for anyone who wants to know what actually happens once you have bought access. Note that this is not a set of pictures with fixed meanings, but a structured order of work with an image in which every step is prepared by the one before it.
What it is built on
At the root are Anna Shyman’s many years of hands-on experience and four professional pillars: the emotional-image method (EOT: working with a state through an image and its echo in the body), psychosynthesis (the idea of subpersonalities — parts that live by their own logic), fairy-tale work (living the ending through symbol) and symbol drama (movement inside an imagined space).
None of them is used in this MAC system as a separate school. One device is taken from each method, and the devices are put in sequence: image → echo in the body → defence mechanism → ending. The sequence is what makes working on your own possible: in a live session a specialist holds that order; here the structure holds it.
Twenty-one cards, three logical blocks
The visual base is 21 realistic portraits (projective stimuli) made to Anna Shyman’s concept. Each card is one state, emotion or inner role, given shape in a picture and in words. The cards are divided into three blocks, and that is already half of the diagnosis: a person is usually inside one of them.
- Cards 1–5. Core wounds and masks (after Lise Bourbeau): rejection (the Runaway), abandonment (the Dependent), humiliation (the Masochist), betrayal (the Controller), injustice (the Rigid one).
- Cards 6–15. Shadow feelings — what gets suppressed: suppressed rage (the Rebel), envy (the Comparer), arrogance (the Snow Queen), chronic anxiety (the Panicker), guilt (the Eternal Sinner), toxic shame (the Invisible one), powerlessness (the Little Girl), self-sacrifice (the Pleaser), greed (the Black Funnel), apathy (the Dead Princess).
- Cards 16–21. Deficit and taboo states and roles: impostor feelings (the Deceiver), infantility (Puer), sinfulness (the Harlot/the Nun), loneliness (the Hermit), competition (the Huntress), loss of identity (the Chameleon).
Five steps with a card
The order of work is the same for every card — only the state word around which the questions are built changes.
- The image.
- The echo in the body.
- The defence mechanism.
- Finding blocks and resources.
- The ending — transformation.
Two more steps frame these: opening and closing the space. They are not optional — the preparation practices are described separately, and that is where to start.
Three levels of immersion
- Level 1 — ₴770. 21 portraits, the gallery of subpersonalities, a card drawn at random or chosen by hand, and four universal questions to the image.
- Level 2 — ₴2100 from scratch, or ₴1300 on top of level 1. Adds the full immersion story for the chosen subpersonality and the written questions of the Shadow Journal: symptom, mask, defence, bodily echo.
- Level 3 — ₴3100 for full access, for good. Adds the constructor of 21 original fairy tales: living the ending through symbol, finding the hidden talent of the subpersonality and bringing its strength back.
Why people come back to the method for years
21 cards × 21 stories × 21 tales — 9,261 combinations. The point is not arithmetic: in six months the same card opens differently because you answer differently. The tool is never “finished”; there is no last page to reach.
If you work with people
A practitioner gets a ready frame for a session: the stimulus material, the order of questions, the search for the bodily echo, the ending. Your own techniques stay yours — the frame does not argue with your method, it saves preparation time. A printed deck on the desk beats a phone in the room: the print run and pre-order have their own page.
Before your first solo practice, read the safety rules: the system has clear contraindications.