The Leopold Szondi Forum

The first of December we will present detailed information on an adapted version of Prof. Jaako Gabriel Borg's BEL test (as described in his book:"The Szondi Test in the Year 2004"). Moreover I will present there some historical information about my experiments, which were concentrated on finding out the shortest test giving an ideal coefficient between "Invested Test time versus Produced Information quantity".

4. The History of a great investigation in psycho diagnostics in 1938. Henry Murray´s "Exploration in personalities".
Henry Murray´s :"Exploration in personalities", which might interest many of you.

Dear Szondi friends,
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Herewith I send you information about two very short personality tests, each one giving you in a few minutes information about some main personality characteristics. Already as a student, before I started to work as a specialist in psychological diagnostics at the end of the fifties, I was interested in this question
The first one is called the Circle test, created by a friend of mine, Dr. Bo Johnson, a psychiatrist. The other one is an adaptation of the Luscher Colour test revised in 2004 by Prof. Borg. Both the Circle and Borg's adaptation, the BBL colour test, give essential information in a few minutes.
Dr. Johnson started already experimenting with his graphic Circle test in the fifties. He succeeded in a few minutes to distinguish indications of psychic disturbances. (See attached files.) For those of you who might be interested in Graphology I attach also Dr. Arthur Johnston's reference to graphological items.
Moreover I learned in the same period (the end of the fifties) aleady about the existence of several other colour tests. Of these I found the Luscher and Friedling test the most promising. Experiments showed me that the Luscher test took the least time to apply. Two registrations could easily be made, in less than 10 minutes. This test was furthermore very easy to interpret. Luscher presented 56 basic standard interpretations which made the interpretation rather mechanical and simple. This was probably one of the reasons why many people underestimated the possibilities of this test.
Two years ago I read Prof. Borgs book "Szondi in the year 2004" in which he showed the correlation between the eight Szondi factors and Luscher's eight colours. This proved to be a very promising method about which I will give you more details in my next transfer. I hope this information proves to be valuable for some of you.
With Szondi greetings to you all.
Your editor: Leo Berlips, www.szondiforum.org.

(Due to the fact that, at the very last moment, some more information was added, this might for some of you be the second text of this Newsletter. If this is the case please excuse me)

Herewith I intend gradually to send you new information referring to different topics. All these will be SEND in BLOCKS as well to the Szondi Forum as to Individual email addresses.

· A study by Dr. phil. Enikő Gyöngyösiné Kiss This was first published in the Szondiana, Zeitschrift für Tiefenpsychologie und Beiträge zur Schicksalsanalyse, Zürich, 2005.

· A similar study of the Brazilian group, presented at the Lisbon Congress in 2008.

ABSTRACT: This study's intention is to prove the validity of the Szondi Drive Test, SDT, comparing the Szondi Test with the Factorial Inventory Personality (IFP) test. The sample was collected from 301 subjects and the index was calculated among data with SSPS 10.0 with the Factorial Matrix Correlation (r of Pearson). The reliability research with itself, in this case, its Brazilian software, whose sample was based on the result of 122 people showed high reliability. The index was calculated with data based on the Factorial Matrix Correlation (r of Pearson), too. The result of this study has shown that there was a Szondi Test high reliability, but its validity with IFP showed that there were some factors that measured the same psychological characteristics in the Szondi Test and in the IFP.

· Jean Mélon's case histories of COUPLES in French, In the future when I have more time I will translate them into English.

· Jean Mélon's INDIVIDUAL case histories in French. Likewise I hope in the future gradually to translate them into English

Unfortunately I have not any copy of Fate Analytic protocols. In case you have such protocol(s) with a case history, please let me know.

Moreover I hope that Mrs Ines Grämiger, when she comes back from her holiday can help me. She is well known to make complete and highly differentiated Test evaluations.

In case you don't want my information let me know and your email address will immediately be eradicated from my list.

To finish this information I wish you all who have a summer holiday on the Northern half of our planet a nice holiday with excellent weather and to those living on the Southern part patience till your holiday period starts again.

4. Translation of the Journaux 1 -10, of the” Centre of Pathoanalytical Studies. (Cahiers du ”Centre d’ Études Pathoanalystiques)

18th Congress of the International Szondi Association Lisbon, Portugal: 10-12 July 2008

18ème Congrès de la Société Internationale SzondiLisbonne, Portugal : 10-12 Juillet 2008

L’'enseigne Szondi de Genève est une adresse de formation au Szondi-test ("diagnostic expérimental des pulsions") et à l'anthropologie philosophique.

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Direction : Maurizio Badanaï
Docteur en philosophie
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Membre de la Société Internationale Szondi

Siège : 34, Rue de Carouge 1205 Genève

Herewith a short message to announce you that on Saturday, October 25 will take place in Geneva one day a general review of the practice of the Szondi-test. For more information, see " http://szondi-geneve.com site

Voici un court message pour vous annoncer que le samedi 25 octobre aura lieu à Genève une journée conviviale d'échange sur la pratique du Szondi-test. Pour plus d'info, voir la rubrique "Rendez-vous" du site http://szondi-geneve.com

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In case you are interested to have one of these of these articles translated into English you may can contact me and I put you on my waiting list. Ed. leo@berlips.com.

Editorial content (Journal 1 April 93) Research done by the Liège group. Dubois Dominique: Suicide as destiny 3./ Siegelbaum Frederic: Failing at the end of higher studies 17/ Goffart Sabine: The uprooted old man 33/ Gregoire Pascal: Personality of the clairvoyants. 47/ Poelmans Christian and Stassart Martine: The adolescent attitude towards more qualified studies. 61 /Colette Claude: From Hemophilia to hypochondria 71- 82. Price: 8 Euros.

Editorial content in Dutch (Journal 2, September, 93). Pathoanalyse, deel van Lot’s analyse. Herziening van de driften leer van L. Szondi 3/ Schotte Jacques: Pathoanalyse in psychopathology 15 / Lekeuche Philippe: Afgrensning van essentieel drug misbruik 51/ Ledoux Marc: Pathoanalyse in de institutionele psychotherapy 71- 82. Price: 8 Euros.

Editorial content (Journal 3. December 93).” Conference In Budapest, 14 April 17th, 1993”. ref. to the Centenary of the birth of Léopold Szondi. Schotte Jacques: About Fateanalysis in Pathoanalyse 3/ Van Meerbeek Jean Pierre: A genetic reading of the instinctual Szondi diagram based on the theory of Jean Piaget 25/ Kinable Jean: Psychopathy and perversion 45/ Lekeuche Philippe: Delimitation of crucial drug abuse 73 /Brackelaire Jean Luc: Forbidden to project yourself ?! The test of Szondi seen by Tarahumaras 89 / De Groef Johan and Pattyn Marc: Mental impairment seen in the perspective of Pathoanalyse 101/ Gonçalvez Bruno: Responses of adolescents and young deaf adults with the test of Szondi 104 / Ledoux Marc: Béla Bartok, only with its music 115.121. Price: 10 Euros.

Editorial content ( Journal 4, November 4th, 94). Paroxysmality. Blumer Dietrich: Epilepsy of Vincent van Gogh 3/ Lekeuche Philippe: Karamazov and the Schotte’s P vector.11/ Maldiney Henri: Paroxysmality in art 39/ Jean Melon: Paroxysm, rebellion and surprise 73/ Nidecka Bator Iwona: The paroxysmal man in Dostoievski’s litterature 79/ Pluygers Claire: Paroxysmal splitting of the personality as seen in the 0separation of the world in “the Idiot” of Dostoievski 83/ Pluygers Claire: The beyond of the ethic in Dostoievski and Nietzsche 89 / Stassart Martine: Essential Epilepsy in Szondi and Rorschach 95/ Vergote Antoine: The paranoid violence of Caïn and its humanization 116.124. Price: 10 Euros.

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Editorial content (Journal 5 September, 95. Transformations of the sexual . Gerard Bonnet: Narcissism and sexuality 1/ Jean Kinable: The szondian partition of the sexual: change and exchange (swap) 14/ Jacques Roisin: Rene Magritte. A specific destiny of the scopic urge 32 /Jacques Schotte: The “Sexual Theory in anthropopsychiatrie 61/ Martine Stassart: Metapsychology of the adolescence 71/ Jean Melon and Henri M.: Intropathies 105/ Jean Kinable: Remarks about transsexualism 143/ Alberto Peralta: Introduction to Perceptanalyse 155/ Jean Paul Abribat: "Psychopathia sexualis" de Krafft Ebing et Moll 164 174. Prix : 13 Euros

(Journal 6 In Dutch. Septembre 95.) Pathoanalyse en Depressie . Bob Maebe: Inleiding 3 / A. Vergote : Psychoanalyse van de depressie 8 / J. Mélon : De weerbarstige depressie 27/ M. Ledoux : Poëtische bezinning rond de musikale taal van Robert Schumann 41 / J. Mélon : De depressive positie bij Szondi 48 / J. Mélon : De depressie in de Szonditest 59 / J. Schotte : From redefining depression to reassessing nosology 63 82 . Prix: 8 Euros.

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Editorial content (Journal 7 April 96. Ethno psychology. Jean Melon: Oedipus and Moïse 1 /Martine Stassart: TheAnthropology of adolescence 13/ Rene Devisch: The “Mbwoolu” cure at Yaka of Zaire 41/Jean Melon: In connection with the European identity 60/ J.Mélon, M.Stassart and B.Herman: Szondi of Tarahumaras 68/ J.Mélon and Mr. Stassart: The contribution of Szondi in Ethnopsychologie 76/ Brigitte Hermann: A Burundian population 87/ Anne Pochet: The Rural and urban population in north Italy.100/ Ilias Kourkoutas: Transitional identifications in adolescence 116.122. /Price: 10 Euros.

Editorial content (Journal 8. Novembre 2001) Constellations 1. Jean Melon. Abus sexuel, sadisme et masochisme/ Caroline De Togni: Female prostitution and traumatic repetition 101/Florence Robin: The anorexia nervosa in the Rorschach and Szondi test 125/ Sandrine Neuville: New research on twins 136/ Mathilde and Alexandre: the meteorites 159/ Jean Melon: Sexual abuse, sadism and masochism 165/ Helene Wolf: Bar Mitsvah, initiatory rite and formation of the judish personality 179/ Stéphanie Haxhe. Impact of the gap of age when becoming an individual members of a phraternity (fratie) 188/ Bruno Gonçalvès: The Szondi registration of the alcoholics: alcoholism and drug abuse 203-212. Price: 15 Euros.

Bob MAEBE. Constellations. Openings speech at the Conference of Vaalbeek 2001.3/ Jean KINABLE. Szondi-Rorschach: Interanalyse. In connection with trauma from the point of view of the affect. 5/ Philippe LEKEUCHE. A szondian enlightment of schizophrenia. 31/ Alain LAROME and Maxime/ LECAMP. The “Ego” with its paroxysm. 51/ Monic HENRY-BIROUSTE. The excluded Tendencies in a protocol. Questions and hypothèses.55/ Françoise DUFAY-VUILLEMIN. The duty of senority. A female patient forwarding an auto-immune disease. 68/ Alexis DIELS. Szondi enlightment of the alcoholic speech. 77/ Tanguy de FOY. Participation, thoughts about meeting the adolescent. 82/ Esther GENTON-MEIER and Barbara TRIPET. The test of Szondi in marriage counseling. 87/ Marc LEDOUX. Instinctual constellations and social constellations. 98/ Virginia DAVIDTS. Exhibitionism in the light of the pathoanalyse. 101/ Veronique BERGMANS and Sophie DARMOISE. The Szondi test: another glance at social defense. 109 / Maurizio BADANAI. To put “values” in the instinctual Szondi system 115/ Luigi SCANDELLA. The destiny of Pasolini. 137/ Helene DRACOULIS. Bankrupty of the imagination? Study of the quality of the fantasies among women waiting dermatite atopique.153 / Clotilde HENRY of FRAHAN. The anorexia nervosa in the light of pathoanalyse. 161-162/ Patrick DERLEYN. Dialectic of the fore- and of the background. 163-175. Price: 15 Euros.

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Contact: Dr. Jean Melon, 20 rue Petit Bioleux, B-4122 Plainevaux. E-mail melonjan@skynet.be

At last I have again the possibility, thanks to my friends IT specialists Slavick and Oksana Sjibajev, to update the Forum with the latest Szondi News.

Especially promising for the Szondi movement is the fact that we, during the last four months, got 10.000 logg in’s on the Forum. It shows that the interest in Szondi is rising. In my opinion we have for a great part to thank Dr. Arthur C. Johnston for this progress. He has in an astonishing short time made large translations of important classical Szondi and Mélon texts. (e.g The Szondi Course de Jean Mélon.and the translation of Szondi’s chapter “Ego Analysis” from German. Moreover he at present corrects all my English texts-. .

As for the general policy of the Forum we have somewhat changed our objectives. Although there exists still many interesting articles to translate from French into English, (e.g. the .articles of the Cahiers) at present we plan to concentrate our contributions mainly on the “Praxis” of the Szondi test interpretation . Luckily enough for us has Dr. Jean Mélon during the last years published many interesting case histories, presented by his students at his seminars. With his usual generosity he permitted me to publish and translate them into English and transfer them to professionals.

The first translations I have already sent, by way of specific email addresses, to well known Szondi specialists.

(By the way if you want your email address taken away let me know and I will radiate it. The same in case when you get the same message twice, let us know please)

However I will try in the future to put these case histories on the Szondi Forum as “closed files” , which only can be opened by professionals who got the specific code keyword to open them. As soon as this is working I send all of you who are in my email register this codeword. In the mean time I continue to send you these in the usual way to your private email addresses.

I will try to present as well classical Fateanalytic- as Pathoanalytical interpretations , more or less following each other.

Enfin j'ai de nouveau la possibilité, grâce à mes amis, les IT spécialistes Slavick et Oksana Sjibajev, pour mettre au jour un nouveau Newsletter avec les derniéres nouvelles du Szondi Forum.

Significative pour la future du mouvement de Szondi est le fait que nous, pendant les quatre derniers mois qui se sont passés, ont eu aux moins 10.000 (! !) logg in’s sur le Forum. Il prouve définitivement que l'intérêt dans le Szondi mouvement monte.

À mon avis pour une partie grande ce sont les contributions du Dr. Arthur C. Johnston qui sont la cause de ce progrès. Il a, dans une très courte durée, effectuée plusieurs grandes traductions des textes classiques importants de Szondi et de Jean Mélon.

Quant à la politique générale du Forum nous avons en quelque sorte changée nos objectifs. Bien que il y a encore beaucoup d'articles intéressants à traduire du Français en Anglais, (.e.g des Cahiers) actuellement nous avons le but de nous concentrer principal

General Newsletter, 07 04 05

Falkenberg, Westcoast of Sweden,

Dear Szondi friends,

In the first place I want to inform you about the 17^th International Szondi Congress

that is held in Pécs,Hungary the 22 – 25 of June 2005. (More info. at the end)

We also remind you again of Jaakko Gabriel Borg’s Book: (jaakko.borg@pp.inet.fi)

SZONDI'S PERSONALITY THEORY IN THE YEAR 2004.

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As you might already have seen we have updated the Szondi Forum with many articles about the CIRCUIT DRIVE THEORY.

This theory has contributed with an extra differential diagnostic step forwards in interpreting the Szondi test. We publish therefore a re-translated extract from Jean MÉLON´s “Szondi Course” that presents his “Pathoanalytical Circuit Theory” in English and in French. Our summary contains the articles:

6.1.3. The ontogenetic point of view and the drive circuit theory.

6.1.4. The interpretation based on the periodical perspective of the drive circuits.

6.1. 5. Positions and the fate of the drive.

We also publish four articles about the same subject by Karl LOUVET (who was a pupil of Jean Mélon and not of Schotte, something I incorrectly mentioned earlier)

Part 1. The first steps to the Circuit.

Part 2. Circuit interpretation.

Part 3. Basic Circuit Calculation.

Part 4. Drive Positions. (Positions pulsionnelles)

Some of you will probably be rather critically when reading Louvet´s outspoken philosophic idealistic approach in his presentation of the Drive Circuits. But even to them I recommend to read Part 3 of his presentation. It is certainly worthwhile because it describes in a very earthy and practical way an easy method how to calculate – by hand - the Circuit level of a Szondi-protocol. However one can use a Computer Calculation program and save a lot of time. There are two versions that are free and downloadable in the section "Liens" (heading "Matériel") from Karl Louvet´s site: >http://szondi.apinc.org/links.php?lng=fr<
or directly from the site of Bob Maebe for the last version of the CEP :
>http://home.tiscali.be/yuc-roma/ROMAE/logiciels/logiciels.htm<

In contrast with the difficulties which some of you might have to accept Karl’s theoretical reasoning he illustrates his conclusions with concrete examples in a very picturesque way. As a former test psychologist, who in the sixties and seventies often had to interpret test results of people living in other parts of Sweden (blind diagnostic), I really enjoyed myself to read Louvet’s subtle interpretations when he applied the Circuit theory to the individual Factor and Vector positions (see article Nr 4). I think that his example of “Obsession” in this article can be used with success in teaching the Szonditest. (As Karl informed me: the method he used to interpret the instinctual positions is a heritage of Jean Mélon and Daniel Vernant).

I made these translations in Karon, Thailand, during the aftermath of the Tsunami.

They helped me to get a kind of mental private space in a world in turbulence. Moreover I can even say that I was saved from a very serious auto accident by keeping to my daily work schedule. One month after the catastrophe I was invited one morning to accompany by car some of my Thailand friends to Phuket town. Fortunately for me I kept to my schedule and did not follow with them. On their way they got a very serious car accident. If I had followed with them I probably would not have survived. Their car was totally destroyed and they narrowly escaped. So one might say that my translation work saved me.

The first months after the catastrophe I participated several times in relief actions together with some European expatriates and their Thai girl friends. Only a few days already after we transported food, water, milk for babies etc. to the victims in the Kao Lac district. Thanks to my daughter, who collected not less than 3400 Euros ! (contributed by German and Swiss Yoga groups) we could even contribute to GeneMc Cains “Education Sponsorship fund”. In case You want to contribute money to the child victims of the Tsunami. Please read: >www.tsunamirelieffundthai.org/<

In this connection I want to express my appreciation and gratitude for the warm interest and kind emails I got in connection with my stay in Thailand and Eastern holidays. Especially some of the messages I got from South America touched my heart. Un Gran Abrazo a todas mis amigas y amigos!

In the midst of March and after a short visit to Hong Kong I returned to Sweden again.

Notwithstanding the cold winter conditions I felt this time really happy to return to Sweden. However at home I had to pass through some difficult weeks due to physical reactions on the stress I went through before. Fortunately I feel gradually better and I hope to be soon in form again.

I send you all my best Szondi wishes and look forward to meet many of my Szondi-friends at the 17^th International Congress in Hungary.

Leo Berlips, ed.>www.szondiforum.com<

Short Foreword to the 3th Article of Karl Louvet

Part 3 of Karl Louvet´s “Basic Circuit Calculation”. It is one of the first concrete examples of how to make a calculation of the Circuit levels. As such it is a very important contribution of Karl, for even when one does not have a computer program one can learn how to calculate the different levels.

Thanks to the fact that this time his text was very concrete I had no great problems with my (liberal) translation.

Leo Berlips, editor >www.szondiforum.com<

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Information about the

Congress of the International Szondi Association, 22-25 June, 2005 in
Pécs, Hungary. (Info: < <)

Registration fee:

Full registration paid after April 01, 2005: ¤100
Full registration via cash on the spot: ¤120

Banquet: ¤20
Cancellation policy:

· submitted before May 20, 2005 - 100% refund

· submitted between May 21, and June 01, 2005 - 50% refund

· no refund on cancellation sent after June 01, 2005.

Methods of payment:

Bank transfer to HU86-10024003-00282716-00000000
Bank name: Magyar Államkincstár

Bank address: 7621 Pécs, Apáca utca 6.
SWIFT: MANEHUHB

Recipient name: Pécsi Tudományegyetem

Comment: 66036-08-25 SZONDI CONFERENCE registration fee - [Your name]-----------------------------------------------------------------

Travel information:

By plane: Arrival to Ferihegy Airport (Budapest). There are two railway stations in Budapest from where InterCity train services are available to Pécs: the first is Déli Railway Station (Southern Railway Station) and the second is Keleti Railway Station (Eastern Railway Station) (see the table of schedule). From Ferihegy Airport to Déli or Keleti Railway Station you can take an Airport Minibus Transfer. See details at http://www.bud.hu/english/services
Tickets can be purchased in the arrival hall. The InterCity trains are the fastest and most comfortable trains services between the cities. Duration of the journey (Budapest-Pécs) is about 2 hours and 40 minutes. For IC schedule please see the next: (http://www.elvira.hu)

if you have any problem or question, do not hesitate to contact us at sis.meeting@freemail.hu.

WELCOME
BIENVENU - WILLKOMMEN - VÄLKOMMNA

LEOPOLD SZONDI FORUM

Editor: Leo Berlips

Part 3. Basic Circuit Calculation.

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LEOPOLD SZONDI FORUM

Editor: Leo Berlips

Part 3. Basic Circuit Calculation.

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WELCOME
BIENVENU - WILLKOMMEN - VÄLKOMMNA