A picture shows me at a glance what it takes dozens of pages of a book to expound.

(Ivan Turgenev, author, 1818-83)

This chapter covers the empirical work undertaken on three techniques based on the construction of semantic networks. The chapter is divided into three sections. The first section covers the use of an event diagram technique to explore a person's life history. The second section covers the use of a state diagram technique to explore the states that a person can be in (e.g. their moods and feelings) and what events or actions move them from state to state. The third section covers the use of a decision ladder and an aspirations diagram to explore the issues surrounding a decision and how these represent the wider picture of a person’s aspirations. Each of these sections includes the method used to administer the techniques, the results obtained and a discussion.