When I have more time I will publish two pages with the Index of Borg's book: "Szondi's personality Theory in the year 2000", an interesting Course book to start to study Szondi for beginners!.

I finish this Newsletter with my best Szondi wishes to you all!
Certified psychologist, certified psychotherapist and Psychodrama director. Leo Berlips, editor www.szondiforum.org

Newsletter
17 04 07 LUND, Sweden.

Dear Szondi Friends,

This short Newsletter is to inform you that we, after more than 4 weeks retardment , have at last got our email connexion fixed and my computer repaired.

During this time I had no possibility to reply to your emails and Eastern wishes, something that felt very frustrating and I hope you will excuse this silence from my side.

The only advantage for me was that during this time I could study Prof. Borgs interesting book "Drive emotions and Colour Preferences", Szondi's personality theory in the year 2004.
The focus of this book is the correspondence between the 8 Szondi factors and the 8 colours used by Luscher for diagnostics in his L?scher test. As I, about fifty years ago, already introduced the L?scher test in Sweden I was of course much interested to study Borgs book.
Although I soon discovered that it would have been much easier to read and understand Prof. Borgs conclusions if I before could have read his first book: "Szondi's personality theory in the year 2000".
So I ordered even this book and found it an excellent and clear introduction to Szondi's original Fateanalysis theory. It also made Borgs 2004 book much easier to read.

I can really recommend you to order these books. Soon I would like to write soon a more explicit recension but at first have to reply a lot of correspondence and work out some coloour tests.

In the mean time I send you all my very best Szondi greetings and I hope you excuse the many weeks of silence from my side.
Leo Berlips, editor www.szondiforum.org

P.S:
You can order these books by contacting Mrs. Tuomi Borg Jaakko.borg@pp.inet.fr and transferring for each book 40 Euros to: IBAN: FI3211633500038844 SWIFT: NDEAFIHH

Newsletter 15 12 06 

Appel Specific. Spezieller Aufruf. Special Call for:

           KARL LOUVET.

Beaucoup de nous Szondiens manquent tes articles interessants et originaux..  C'est la raison pourquoi le Szondiforum sera toujours ouvert pour les publier  ou encore mieux, que tu toi meme monte un autre fois ton  propre website.! Leo Berlips, editor.

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NEWSLETTER 15 12 06

Dear Szondi Friends,

Falkenberg, Sweden. 

The first information I send you herewith concerns the death of Prof J. Borg, a prominent Szondi researcher in Finland who left us the 11^th of November. Condolences can be sent to his family: Tuomi Borg > jaakko.borg@pp.inet.fi<

He will be especially remembered by the two books he wrote in which he proved the validity and reliability of the Szondi test, more details about these you will find at the end of this newsletter. 

However Fate somehow compensated the Szondi movement because we got a month ago contact with an important Russian Szondi group, located in Yekaterinburg.

Their web site address is::::::..

They were enthusiastic to read the Szondiforum and were interested to get acquainted with the new developments of Szondi's ideas, especially those made by Louvain group of Prof. Schotte. (Pathoanalyse).

The names of the staff members of this group are: Andrey V. Tikhomirov, Alexander V. Smirnov, Alexander I. Lozhkin, Olga Z. Dyachenko and some others. Olga, who has a degree in philology and translates their correspondence and articles, informed me that Andrey V. Tikhomirov translated F. Juttner's book "Schicksalsanalyse im Zusammenfassungen" from German into Russian, Olga is the editor. This book was published in Yekaterinburg (thanks to the aid of the Szondi-Institute, Zurich) and is very useful to fate-analysts in Russia. Andrey also just finished the translation of Martin Achtnich's book "Berufs Bilder Test" into Russian, but it is not published yet. So I am sure I may wish them, in the name of all the readers of the Szondiforum "Good luck" in spreading those new ideas in Russia. 

This information reminded me suddenly that already in 97 I got contact with  the Ukrainian "Medicine of  Transport" Research Institute. Unfortunately I lost this contact after their translator Natasha Dobrova left to England and my former knowledge of Russian, after more than fifty years, had disappeared. However I will try again to get in contact with these programmers and research assistants and their leader Dr. Michail Vigdorchik .

Anyhow to give you an impression about this group I include herewith a copy of the first contact letter which I received. However some of the references I know are not correct anymore.

Slavick and Oksana Shibayev have started their own business and had the generosity to take gratis care for the Szondiforum. Slavick belongs also to one of the first programmers who developed a Szondi computer program in Russian, which gradually improved and at present also can be ordered in English.  (He used the original orthodox interpretation of Fate analysis in this program). More information you get writing to: slashi@gmail.com

As for Natasha Dobrova, who I met once in Bruxelles together with DR. Maebe, even with her I lost contact, If she reads this I hope she will take up contact with me again.

Herewith follows the 1997 first contact letter;

Dear Leo, 970827

We were very glad to hear from you. It is highly important to us to be in touch with you and other specialists in this field.

 A little bit about our team. Our group of research assistants and programmers work at the laboratory of psychophysiology and professional selection of the Ukrainian "Medicine of  Transport" Research Institute.

 My name is Michail Vigdorchick, I am 33. I have graduated from Odessa Medical University , specialized in therapy. Further on I specialized in advanced cardiac life support. Upon my graduation from medical school I entered the Eastern European Institute of Psychoanalysis, department of psycho diagnostics, where I studied for 2 years, at the same time I studied at the department of psychoanalysis for 4 years.

 Because of many reasons I have to work as a research assistant at the laboratory and teach psycho diagnostics at Siberian universities. I have got acquainted with Szondi theory while studying at the Institute of  Psychoanalysis. This psychoanalytic technique really attracted me.

One of the members of our team is my spouse - Marina Vigdorchick, she has graduated from the same Institute of Psychoanalysis in St. Petersburg. Her area of interests relates to the application of Szondi test in working with children. This way it is possible to determine fixations on different stages of psychosexual development, special characteristics of Oedipus complex period, object relations.       

Eduard Psyadlo, Ph.D., the head of the laboratory helps a lot in evaluation of reliability and approbation of the computer versions of the program.    

Natasha Dobrova helps us with English sources of information and  translation work.                 

The team of programmers is represented by Slavick and Oksana Shibayev. The interface of our programs was developed by these programmers.

Dealing with transportation workers provides us with rich and interesting materials. Besides we tested the stuff of internal affairs bodies and have received interesting results as well. Since we deal with a normal population we are particularly interested in their personality traits and prognosis of their further activities. Thus we managed to develop valid diagnostic criteria which were practically proved. The main problems we encountered were the absence of the interpretation circuit of  a profile,  formula and  drive class. Because of the lack of information we have developed the circuit of interpretation, which is described in my article. 

It would be very interesting to get acquainted with your circuit of interpretation as well.

We appreciate the interest you have expressed in our team and hope to collaborate with you. To some extend the new articles reveal to us the new world of the analysis of Fate. As to us, we will do our best to send the demo version of the program we developed as soon as possible. 

 Sincerely,  
Michail Vigdorchick.

PS 
Please send your correspondence to our team to >met_ukr@paco.net>   and for me to

labor@labor.tm.odessa.ua <.

• Finish copy  97.

As for my American contacts:

During the last months I regularly corresponded with Dr. Arthur Johnston. He still is "going strong" and works through great quantities of translations of important articles. It is very impressive to see what he has already done. Thanks to his excellent command of French and German he has succeeded in translating important parts of Szondi's original works, as well as of Schotte's Pathoanalysis. In contrast, due to my increasing age, I have not anymore the energy to concentrate on long translations and was thus very happy that he could take over so much of my former tasks. Dr. Johnston has just finished with an important translation into English of Jean Melon's (388 pages!) text book "COURSE OF SZONDI". This will be published on the Forum at the same time as this Newsletter.   (SEE ATTACHED FILE) 

However I have to remind you that due to the fact that Dr. Johnston originally was a literature professor and not a psychiatrist he may sometimes have had difficulty to find the exact correct translation of the specific new Pathoanalytical concepts into English. After consulting with Dr. Johnston and the secretary of the Pathoanalytical Group Dr. Robert Maebe, we decided anyhow to publish this book in its present form. It will be published in such a way form that you easily can copy the contents. We look forward to receive your corrections, viewpoints and suggestions for improvement of the English text. They will be published in the next newsletter.  

You may however already want to express your gratitude for the work and generosity of Dr. Jean Melon, >melonjan@skynet.be< , who allowed free of charge publication on the Forum and to Dr. Arthur Johnston, >acjohns2@verizon.net< , who gratuitous spent  much time in translating Melon's book and send them an email or Xmas greetings.

As some of you were interested to hear more about Dr. Johnston's contribution to Graphology using Szondi's ideas, I include in this Newsletter also a short article with his comments on Chess players and Handwriting. Obs. This article can easily be read also by non-graphologists and gives an interesting view on how Dr. Johnston applies Szondi concepts in Graphology.

 In this connection it might be also interesting to know that Mrs Ines Gramiger, lic.phil, Rebergerstr. 53, CH-8094,  one of the most prominent representatives of  Szondi's original theory Fateanalysis also is a well-known Graphologist. Ines Gramiger was the author of most of the articles of Szondiana (2006, 26 Jahrgang, Heft 1), the Index of this issue is attached herewith. I had the pleasure of meeting her personally in Zurich some years ago and was already then impressed by the originality of her ideas. I got the impression that she is an excellent organizer and a first class Szondi teacher. I expect - and hope -- that she in the future will play an important role in the Szondi movement.  

Well to finish I wish you all in the name of Slavick and Okana Sjibajev and myself a very 

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR.

Leo Berlips, editor  >leo@berlips.com 

Attached files:

1. Information about J. Borg's book (text in English, German and French),

2. Article about Chess players, by Dr. Arthur Johnston,

3. Index Szondiana. 

4. Ego picture (k-!! p +) by Karl Louvet.

5. Laudation of your editor by Szondi institute. Dr. Friedjung Juettner.  
  
 

1) Drive emotion and color preferences.

(Former title: Szondi's Personality Theory into the Year 2004: Validity/ and Reliability of the Szonditest 

New Edition/ Neuauflagen/ Nouvelles Editions 

J.B o rg s second book, Szondi's Personality Theory into the Year 2004: Validity and Reliability of the Szonditest, appears as a new edition with a change of name. The book is called now: Drive Emotion and Color Preferences. Standard price _ 40.00 with the publisher MC-pilot: 

Together with the BEL Color Test  is the Standard price _ 50 + postage available with the same publisher.

This test is available only together with the text edition (see above), since it contains the manual and the result from the BEL test.  

All books are to refer with the publisher MC-PILOT Oy Kustannus, Vainamoisenkatu 11-13, 33540 Tampere, Finland or can by E-Mail: mcpilot.kustannus (A) vip.fi to be ordered. 

We remind you that the former book from 2004 (also in Szondiana 2003) finally after 50 years showed the sufficient validity and Reliability of the Szondi test. 

This brings advantages for the Szondi movement.

a) Owing to these new results the user of the Szondi test has a still

greater security for the fact that its test procedures are reliable.

b) All earlier tests were rehabilitated.

c) This re-evaluation of the Szondi test contributes to the reputation of the Szondi movement.  
 

Deutsch

J . B o rg s zweites Buch, Szondi's Personality Theory in the Year 2004: I/alidity and reliability fot the Szonditest, Text volume- als neue Auflage mit einer Namensanderung erschienen 

Das Buch heisst nun: Drive emotions and Colour Preferences (die Namensanderung wegen Verwechslungen, die auf die zu grosse Aehnlichkeit mit dem Buch 2000 zuruckzufuhren sind). Richtpreis _ 40,00 beim Verleger MC-Pilot... 

Ferner ist Test volume (BEL colour test). Richtpreis _ 50 + Postgebuhr erhaltlich beim selben Verleger.

Die Testausgabe ist nur zusammen mit der Textausgabe (s. oben) erhaltlich, da sie das Manual und den Ergebnisbogen fur den BEL-Test beinhaltet.  

Alle Bucher sind zu beziehen beim Verleger MC-PILOT Oy Kustannus, Vainamoisenkatu 11-13 , 33540 Tampere, Finnland oder konnen per e-mail: mcpilot.kustannus(a)vip.fi bestellt werden. 

Hier muss man hinzufugen, dass in dem Buch von 2004 (auch in Szondiana 2003) endlich nach 50 Jahren die hinreichende Validitat und Reliabilitat des Szondi-Tests gezeigt werden konnte. 

Dies bringt Vorteile fur die Szondi-Schule.

a) dank dieser neuen Ergebnisse hat der Benutzer des Szondi-Tests eine noch

grossere Sicherheit dafur, dass seine Testvorgange zuverlassig sind.

b) Alle fruheren Tests werden rehabilitiert, ob sie recht gemacht sind, da sie

   nachtraglich mit einer ordentlichen Methode durchgefuhrt worden sind.

c) durch die Bewertung des Tests hat man auch Voraussetzungen fur

sein Ansehen ausserhalb der Schule geschaffen.

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FRENCH TEXT

Le livre de J.G. Borg : Szondi's Persona/ity Theory in the Year 2004: Validity and reliability for the Szondi fest, Text volume a ete re-edite sous le titre Drive Emotions and Colour Preferences. Changement du titre afin d'eviter des confusions avec le livre 2000. Prix _ 40.00 + port 

Le volume du test : BEL Colour Test au prix de _ 50.00 + port. Ce volume se vend seulement avec le volume du text ( voir ci-dessus) mais il est possible de se procurer le text sans test pour _ 40.00. 

Le livre de 2004 (ainsi que SZONDIANA 2003) a permis de demontrer, apres 50 ans, la validite et reliabilite du Szondi-test. 

1. Les aventages pour I'ecole Szondi sont les suivants les nouveaux resultats permettent plus de certitude concernant les procedes du test.
2. touts les tests anterieurs peuvent etre verifier par une methode sure.
3. la validite eprouvee du test est aventageux pour I'autorite de I'ecole Szondi partout.

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2) Some Comments on Chess players and Handwriting

by

Arthur C. Johnston

Spring, 2004 

     Lots of these comments will be based on Szondi's work.  Refer to my booklet on Szondi and handwriting, particularly the second on epilepsy [e+ especially] and hy- under hysteria. 

     The most outstanding characteristic of the chess players' writings is the small middle zone with long extensions in the upper and lower zones.  This signifies a strong superego. [See Ulrich Sonnermann's remarks in his book Handwriting Analysis as a Psychodiagnostic Tool: A Study in General and Clinical Graphology on the vertical dimension of handwriting pp. 56-63.]    

     In handwriting, the middle zone is the ego, which is pressed down by the values of the extensions in the upper zone, which represents the father, reason, abstract thinking, and the lower zone, which represents the mother and materiality.  The long extensions represent pressure from both realms on a small middle zone. 

     I jump on this characteristic of a small middle zone with long extensions because Freud has discussed epilepsy, particularly concerning Dostoevsky, and the superego.  For the male, the father is the model for the superego.  The epileptic circle is concerned with the law that forbids the killing of the father.  And the superego is the bearer of the law.   

     Szondi points out that Cain, who loved his Father God, expected praise from God for his good works as a farmer.  But God instead praised Abel, Cain's brother, a sheep herder.  In a rage-which is characteristic of e- -Cain, feeling the injustice of God's actions and his own impotence, killed Abel for revenge, envy, and murderous rage.  In Szondi, this is e- hy+.  hy+ is the hysteric who wants to exhibit his or her feelings-in this case rage.  The law for the hysteric is the interdiction against incest. 

     What does this have to do with chess players?  The first stage of an epileptic cycle is the accumulation of rage, anger, revenge, feelings of impotence and of injustice (e-).  Then, the act of murder is committed in an emotional outburst that surprises everyone (e0). In Dostoevsky's case, an epileptic attack occurs: the hatred and rage against the father is turned inward and directed toward one's self and the image of the father within.  Dostoevsky has murders in his family and many priests and religious figures.  After the surprising outbreak of rage, the rage is depleted.  Then, the epileptic wants to repair the damage done by his rage.  He becomes a helper, a social worker, a religious figure, a person doing good. This is the e+ stage.   

     Moses was a murderer and always recognized his murderous and evil nature (e- hy+).  But he became a follower of God, received the ten commandments-one of which is that one should not kill-and became a religious figure leading his people and following the laws of God (e+ hy-).  hy- is to feel shame and to wish to hide one's emotions while following the laws of society.    Moses obviously has a strong superego-the strongest of all-God.  And the superego is like a God and a father figure. 

     Now, the chess players have a strong ego.  And Freud pointed out that chess players' goal in the game is to kill the father: the king.  Cain, the killer, and Abel, the good man with a strong superego, are both bound to each other.  Moses is a Cain, but he suppresses the Cain in him and acts as an Abel.   

     In chess, the chess player does not literally kill the father.  Playing chess is a socially acceptable activity.  Thus, playing chess lets the killing drive of the epileptic have an outlet. 

     Another dominant characteristic of the chess players' handwriting is the orderly margins, line spaces, and word spacing.  Control is shown throughout.  Control is a sign of a strong superego. 

     Slant is to the right.  What does this mean?  One who slants the writing is driving toward the future, a goal, reality, the external world, all represented by the right side of the paper.  The power for the epileptic is in the Sadism circle of s+, which represents masculinity, the desire to dominate, to lead, to achieve goals, to express power over the world and the feminine.    

     Interestingly, the occupations of the chess players are in science: physics, chemistry, structural engineer, safety engineer, for example.  These are the realms of the physical.  The lower region of handwriting: the earth, the mother, materiality. 

     The epileptic is concerned with the basic elements of earth, fire, air, and water, all physical realms. 

     We have seen that the epileptic wants to break the law "Thou shall not kill."  And wants to kill the father.  This is the first and second stages: e- hy+ and e0, the Cain.   But even Cain wanted to please his Father God at first, but rebelled against the injustice of God rejecting his gifts and talents.   

     But those who have a strong superego repress their murderous impulses and obey the law.  The Abels [e+ hy-] obey both their inner law given by the superego [e+] and the outer laws of society [hy-]. They love and follow God and his laws.  The chess players are followers of the law. 

     For example, the physicist is a follower of the laws of physics.  He is not following some fantasy about the makeup of the universe.   He knows the given laws that rule physics. 

     The chemist is following the laws of chemistry.  These are part of reality and are the basic nature of the world. 

     The structural engineer has to follow the laws of materials and so does the safety engineer. 

     Thus, the chess players obey the Father God and his universal laws.    

     It would be interesting to find out how strong the chess players' relation to their fathers is. 

     Handwriting analysts have always equated a small middle zone with concentration and the possibility for scientific work.  And a moderate to large middle zone is equated with one's ability to work with people.  Chess is not a people-oriented activity.  The right slant does give the chess players a push toward people and the world that counters their strong introverted inclinations and wanting to work with physical objects. 

     If I remember correctly, there were some negative signs in the handwriting of the chess players.  For example, was there not resentment in some?  Resentment belongs to the Cain, who feels resentment at any kind of injustice.  And resentment has its origins early in life in relation to family members. 

     The Cain/Able opposites can lead one to conclude that Cain is evil and Abel is good.  This is true to some extent.  But as a follower of the law, an Abel-and a chess player-could do some horrible deeds.  Stalin was a theology student, and following his laws and principles, he slew millions.  Think of the horrendous deeds by the religious zealots all in the name of some law or principle.   The radical Islamics are terrorists all in the name of Allah and his laws.    

There was one printer, but he has upper and lower case extensions and a small middle zone.  He would not be too far from the script writers. 

From this one excursion into the world of chess players, one can easily see the great value of Szondi's insights into human nature.

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3) INDEX SZONDIANA

2006.  26. Jahrgang Heft 1

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Ines Gramiger, 2004

Das szondianische m und die Bindungstheorie von John Bowlby,

seine Wirkung auf das Hirn und den Ich-Aufbau 5 

Ines Gramiger, 2004

STALKING als Terror des / der  17 

Ines Gramiger

Leopold Szondi - Die Personlichkeit in Bild und Handschrift 25 

Ines Gramiger, September 2005

Diffenrentialdiagnostik: Genese der verschiedenen

Depressionsformen und ihre Heilwege 53 

Leon Wurmser

Zur Technik der Traumdeutung 60

Rezensionen

Alan M. Dershowitz: Die Entstehung von Recht und Gesetz

aus Mord und Totschlag

Originaltitel:The Genesis of )ustice. 76 

Information 80

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4.) The Profile k-!! p+

According to the Mathieu 22, 21 Method

By

Karl Louvet

May 28, 2005

      You will find in this forum a text where I describe an interpretive approach for factor k-; it suffices to follow that text in order to agree with Jesus: there is no p plus without k-.  Once this text is assimilated, you are confronted with the hypothesis of three faces for k-; which one to choose for interpreting this profile?

      The accentuation of k- and its constancy (since it is a matter of envisioning the profile as most stable) favors the most stable version of k-, the dogmatic version, that which poses k- as the guardian of the common traditions.  Nevertheless, even if p+ does not appear in an evident manner in the notation "p+/-", it is not necessary to believe that it is secondary.  The p+ exists; it exists, otherwise the subject would not have made a p+ choice.  Therefore, what is the force of k-; even accentuated, this factor is inscribed in the p+ field that gives it all its meaning.  "Lowered" to an object status just like p- ; k- does not have here the value of a dogmatic subject who imposes on the p+ project those values of society.  No, it is p+ that leads the dance and the factors k- and p- are its objects, its particular "coloration" so to speak.  In all cases, this is the point of view adopted by the Mathieu 22, 21 method or the method of ranking [imbrications] (factors k- and p- are outranked and overlapped by the p+ field).

      You will recall a reference for this profile that speaks of alienation, depersonalization and derealization (underlined in the text): < On voit ce qui manque ici : la faculte de dire oui, d'accepter, d'affirmer (k+) son destin. Refusant sa place dans le monde, le moi devient etranger au monde. Il fuit le desir et ses objets, il se retire dans sa tour d'ivoire, se calfeutre, s'isole. Mais comme on ne peut fuir le monde exterieur sans se detacher aussi de ses objets internes, la depersonnalisation menace >. ["One sees that which is lacking here: the faculty to say yes, to accept, to affirm (k+) one's destiny.  Refusing its place in the world, the ego becomes estranged from the world.  It flees desire and its objects; it retreats into its ivory tower; blocks itself up; and isolates itself.  But as one cannot flee from the exterior world without detaching oneself also from its internal objects, depersonalization threatens."]  You recognize this text from Theorie et pratique du Szondi, dating from 1975; we are all indebted to it for the interpretation of the test.

      Even now I am astonished to read a description of the autistic type that one habitually attributes to the k+ register.  With a k-!!  p+/-, clinically, one would say that this subject must be in a very bad psychological state, especially if this profile is stable in one.  However, there resides a kind of surprise, reversing even what I have said.  Before going much further, it requires a bit of convincing by me about a subject who regularly presents a k-! p+/- to see from k-!! p+/-that you would yourselves regard clinically.  I know a person of excellent quality with k-!! p+/-, a Szondian of the first rank: that is Leo Berlips.  He has given me authorization to divulge the fact that he is regularly k-!! p+/-: "Assuredly you have my permission and can use my profile in order to illustrate your theories."  In order to complete our clinical interpretation, he has also made available his autobiography in English. This is truly worthy of being read, excellent friend Leo!

      On the Szondi Forum you will find the autobiography of Leo Berlips (15 pages written in a grand style): Sailing against the winds.

      Therefore I invite you to be a companion of the adventures of Leo in order to continue the description of this profile.

      " Furthermore it is easy to understand that this combination of 1) an attractive seducing mother, who more or less has fallen in love with her gentle, understanding little son and 2) a terrible frightening father figure coupled to 3) the extremely narrow protestant anti-sex morals created a first class and full blown Oedipus complex. The consequences were that this produced a young boy with a typical (hy-) type in Szondi terms: Chameleon qualities, overloaded fantasy life, very empathic, being able to play many roles, voyeuristic etc. etc.  
  
However in my early adolescence the (p-) factor, that stands for expansion, more and more showed its presence! I wanted to become a detective! (p-). Together with some other boys we organised a secret society and did exercises in stalking and tracking, a kind of man chases. In this period I got into trouble in school, as I often brought weapons, hunting knives, box-irons, beating sticks, etc. (e-). This rather paranoid pleasure in the "discovery" of subtle traces became a great asset later in my life. During the war it helped me to survive during the Nazi period and much later on a higher level when I worked with psychodiagnostics.   
  
I must also refer to the very strong influence of the introjection factor (k+!!) and its shadow (k-!!) factor which in my Szondi registrations later always showed up as the most loaded factor. My Egoprofile was continuously (k-!! p+). For how can one understand otherwise the continuous drive and thirst for knowledge and the forever-repeated question I put forward: "Why do we behave as we do? What makes Sammy tick?"  
  
At the age of 14, 15, I tried to find answers to this question by reading cheap booklets about psychology. Other answers I got listening to the radio doctor, a psychiatrist who solved human problems. He was the ideal of all the working class women, living with husbands who did not understand them often in sordid poor conditions. This doctor became somewhat of an ideal identification object for me. I wanted to become a psychologist and be admired by women.   
  
My intellectual horizon started at last to lighten up by the discovery of Freud's "Introduction to Psychoanalysis", when I was about 15 or 16. There I found solid answers on how to understand human problems. Somewhat later I started ploughing through the 700 pages of Jung's "Psychologische Typen", written in German."

      That which is transparent in this text is that Leo had at once became a "giver of responses," a p+.  I remember three dissertations regrouped around a single subject at the end of studies that consisted in comparing two student candidates with the Szondi test; one for becoming an assistant in psychology, the other for becoming a translator; the Szondi profiles showed a tendency much greater for p+ on the side of psychology and a tendency p- on the side of the translator aspirant.  In translating a language, one makes reference above all to the vocabulary of the foreign language to be studied, the vocabulary being in total a collection of common representations of the p- type.  For psychology, reference is more related to existence and the interiorized because it rests on particular representations with a systematized value of the p+ type.  It is understood that the paranoiac is renowned for his "psychological expertise" faculties accompanied by his powerful need for interpreting everything in the paranoiac necessity for being competent about the question of meaning given to situations.

      What is astonishing with Leo Berlips is that we have the two aspects of p- and p+.  He is a confirmed polyglot who speaks several languages, travels a lot, translates texts (notably French into English), and knows Spanish and obviously his mother tongue, Dutch.  As an adolescent, he read Jung's book Psychological Types in German at 15 and 16 years of age, and as he said himself in his biography he then continued with the book of Rorschach the same year.  Consequently, he went on to become a professional psychologist who continues today, at 86, to support the Szondian cause while playing a primary role, notably with his international website where his gift for languages is confirmed: "Dutch, German, English, French and Spanish and could understand some basic Russian."

      His p+ did not delay long; in his adolescence, he created his own method of hypnosis and from there went to find the author of the book on hypnosis, which had awakened him to this method, in order to reveal his own experience:

      "However, I created my own technique (!), also based on a normal sensory reaction, by putting a hidden electrical stove behind the subjects of my experiment which I gradually could turn on. By suggesting to the subject that he would feel more and more warm I got the same results! I wrote to Stokvis about my 'discovery'. He worked at a psychiatric hospital and I was invited to explain my method to him. He received me together with his staff. They were probably very curious to see what an uneducated teenager had to tell them. My main memory of this meeting is that I asked them for advice on how I could realise my dream to become a psychologist. As I had not even finished the most elementary secondary school (!) they could not tell me much more than to go to a gymnasium or to try to become a psychiatric nurse instead. I never got their psychiatric diagnosis of me (sic)."

      If you have had any doubts concerning the faculty of Leo to transcend the social norms, the following ought to convince you of his p+: 

      "When the war started in 1939 between Germany and England I tried to smuggle out a German anarchist to the West Indies. At the last moment he did not dare to take the risk, so I had to go without him and work some months on a tanker. I deserted on one of the West Indiana islands but was caught and sent back to Holland in 1940 just before the war started. The war meant no more time for studies and neither for the luxury of having a personal neurosis. Instead I lived a very dangerous life, with many adventures, illegally crossing frontiers, I was sometime in the Gestapo "Untersuchungshaft" (prison) in Potsdam Germany etc. etc. All these adventures would take days to describe. (...) Anyhow, when at last peace came, I suppose my Szondi Sch vector would have shown a very inflated Ego (k+! and p+!). During the war I had successfully come out of so many sensational adventures that I felt I could do anything."

      In his life Leo Berlips organized and structured numerous psychological practices which made him an expert in "intensive" group therapies such as psychodrama, primal therapy of Janov, the approach of Stanilas Groff, etc., on the whole experiences that demanded a powerful personality to suit the emotional outpourings stirred up by these approaches.  In a word, he had to be strong!  It is Szondi's ideas that permit many things without losing oneself, "Szondi's drive schema has always been my main theoretical reference."

      Came the time to take his retirement, Leo Berlips envisioned creating a website, the Leopold Szondi Forum, in order to publish a personal document of 200 pages that has him explaining Fate Analysis.  No publishing firm was interested in this publication; consequently, he had recourse to the site on the Internet.  This decision is interesting for it reveals as much p+ as k- according to the Matthew 22, 21 method:

      "The reason why I started the Leopold Szondi Forum on the Internet was that I had written, in the beginning of the sixties, a summary about Szondi's "Fate Analysis" in Swedish with nearly 200 pages. As no publishing firm ever was willing to publish this introduction I decided therefore in the autumn 1996, to use the Internet to publish my manuscript in Swedish. This was the start of the Szondi Forum on the Internet in 1996."

      Much later, he will be confirmed in his roles in an official fashion by the Szondian community:

      "Since then I have continued to extend this Forum and to promote Szondi's and Prof. Schotte's ideas in many languages. In July 2002 in Zurich at a reception I officially received a Tribute (Laudatio, speech) and a distinction, for my work with the Forum. (At the end of this you can in telegraphic style read the content of this Tribute)."

      It is this last passage that opens my personal comprehension of k-!! p+/- in him: in one way or another, by means of the activity of his site, of his visits among Szondian groups around the world, with his participation at congresses, his numerous regular correspondences, etc., Leo Berlips has become the official guardian of the Szondian patrimony.  The conclusion of his succinct autobiography does not leave any doubt about his ambition to be a relay from which activity (or non-activity) transmits or not the message:

      "Between the alternative to start studying in detail the development of Szondi's ideas or building up the Szondi Forum, I decided that the Forum was more important. This put me somewhat in the position of a Morse-telegrapher who facilitates the communication of important messages but has not enough time to digest all the interesting information going through his hands."

      With his k-!! p+/-, Leo Berlips is revealed to be a guardian.  He did not have a formal degree and doubted the respect of the professionals about his professional competencies in psychology; he worried about his legitimacy. It very much requires me to say that with time his destiny has made him a worthy professional very quickly in the eyes of the Szonidian community to warrant him to be the official guardian of Szondi concepts in the eyes of the public.

      Thus revealed is that we are in the presence of a k-!! p+/- "strong personality," a very enterprising man, a public man, endowed with a rich personality and who has confidence in domains where it is not truly evident for him to assume so.  For me, this is a p+, without any doubt, and this p+ holds the reins of the ego, and is served by an accented k- that makes him the guardian of the laws, the one who occupies this legitimate position in the eyes of others.  It is his website, his child, that speaks for him. 

      As to p- of p+/-, these are the common representations under object statutes; for example, these are the texts and articles over which he keeps watch in order to assume his role of guardian.  His translations give him the possibility with p+ of walking over his domains that he surmounts from his dominant international position.  His site gives him moreover access to this privileged position from a p+ discourse that radiates into all the community. 

      Another example, more comical, is the fact that he translated the version USL of the Szondi software into English, and afterwards, he proposed that access to this international version--if and only if-one had a degree.  One finds again, it seems to me, an old reflex in order to assure a p+ position regarding p- objects who are to him invited guests.  I who refused to close access to the software by a password was taken aback to see with what swiftness he had put a grappling hook over the software in order to bolt it tight.  Already in 1997, at the debut of the software, he had surprised me in proposing to me a deal since regarding the distribution of the software the Swiss had already given him a dominant position.  This was completely unheard of; I had felt that he wanted to take over my work; I said yes, but I have drawn back over the years in order to "see from afar" all that was still possible at this stage, and since at the time the Szondi cause advanced, that was all to the good.  It was then that I had proven that "the guardian" had enclosed the software in the ivory tower. ...  There was no mention regarding this software on the Internet during these years. ...  And just like him, I said to myself that I ought to create my own site in order that the software would not fall into oblivion.  As shown by all this, the guardian has two sides: lightness and darkness. 

      Evidently, my destiny is not k-!! p+/-.  But I admit all the same that Leo's attitude is revealing of his propensity to play the role of guardian.  It is moreover this episode of mine from the past that gave me the key for the interpretation of k-!! p+/-.  One can even imagine that his choice for the version USL rather than for the version CEP gave him more margin for manoeuvring faced with me than faced with Bob Maebe, another polyglot who is also occupied by a website and who put passwords in his software. ... Perhaps the pseudo "Roma" designates the composition of the personality of Bob who is of the k-! p+/- type (When will there be an autobiography of Bob?). 

      Therefore, p- and k- (even accentuated) work in subordination to p+.  This confirms again with this subject the fact that all translations (p-) created by Leo have only the meaning of sustaining his p+ project. 

      A guardian is the one who evaluates others in order to authorize or not their passage, as Leo Berlips has evaluated others with the image of his professional activity as the headhunter during the years, and today, there is still this drive destination that places him as the essential relay on the path that leads to the diffusion of important messages as he himself has said with the metaphor of telegrapher.

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5) LAUDATIO         

Ehrung von Leo Berlips am 3. Juli 2002 im Szondi-Institut Zurich

  Wer ist Leo Berlips und warum soll er  die Ehrennadel erhalten?

• Die fur die Schicksalsanalyse (Scha) so wichtigen Begriffe von Freiheit und Zwang spielen auch in seinem Leben eine bedeutende Rolle. Man konnte sagen, sein Leben ist gezeichnet vom standigen Versuch den Zwangen zu entgehen und dem Bemuhen, Freiheit zu gewinnen.
• 1919. in Amsterdam geboren, wuchs er in einer protestantisch-calvinistischen Familie auf, in der alles, was Freude machte  Sunde war. Seiner Mutter, einer  depressiven Frau,  war er ein verstandnisvoller und aufmerksamer Zuhorer, wenn sie ihre Kindheit beklagte. So begann schon mit 5 Jahren seine Karriere als Psychotherapeut.

• Mit 14/15 Jahren begann er viel zu lesen. Seine grosse Frage war: Was sind die Motive unseres Verhaltens?

• Der Wunsch Psychologe zu werden tauchte bereits damals auf. Motiviert durch einen Psychiater, der mit Radiovortragen die Frauenwelt begeisterte. Ein schones Gefuhl: Von Frauen bewundert werden.

• Mit 15/16 Jahren begann er  Freud und Jung auf Deutsch  zu lesen. Er kaufte sich einen Rorschachtest (das 3. Exemplar, das in Holland verkauft wurde) und beschaftigte sich mit Parapsychologie und Hypnose.

• Als er aus der Schule kam, hatte er keine Arbeit.

• Ab 1939 fuhrte er ein teilweise gefahrliches, auf jeden Fall aber abenteuerliches Leben - Zwange wurden fast gewaltsam durchbrochen: illegale Grenzubergange, Dersertion, Menschenschmuggel.. Aber die Zwange holten ihn wieder ein: er kam in Deutschland ins Gefangnis. Ich glaube, der Abenteurer ist sein familiares Zwangsschicksal, mit dem er sich - bis heute- immer wieder ein Stuck Freiheit zu erobern versucht.

• 1944 gegen  Ende des Krieges war er zunachst voller Selbstvertrauen, weil er ja vielen Gefahren entronnen war. Doch es kam die Enttauschung, weil er keinen Beruf gelernt hatte. er wendete das ins Positive und wurde gewissermassen zum  berufsmassigen Autodidakten. Getrieben von seinem Ausreisser-Ich (wie er selbst schrieb), ging er auf Reisen. Er verdiente seinen Lebensunterhalt u.a. als Pressefotograf und Reisefuhrer.

• 1956, mit 37 Jahren ging er nach Schweden seiner neuen Wahlheimat. Sein Motiv: er ist einer Schwedin nachgereist.

• In Goteborg hatte er Gelegenheit  als Horer an der Universitat Psychologievorlesungen zu besuchen. Der Tiefenpsychologie und den projektiven Tests galt sein Hauptinteresse. Beides lernte er gut miteinander zu verbinden. Er machte hier auch Bekanntschaft mit dem Szondi-Test.

• Ein Universitatsdozent vermittelte ihm eine Stelle in einer Firma fur "angewandt Psychologie". In diesem Betrieb arbeiteten 60 Psychologen, denen er bald verdienstmassig gleichgestellt wurde, obwohl er keinen offiziellen Abschluss als Psychologe hatte. Innerhalb der Firma war er bald der Experte fur die schwierigen Falle, dank seiner guten tiefenpsychologischen Kenntnisse und dank seiner grossen Intuition.

• Uber die Zeitschrift Szondiana wurde er mit Dr. Martin Achtnich bekannt, mit dem er sich dann auch in Zurich, anlassliche eines Kongresses der Internationalen Szondi-Gesellschaft, traf. Bei dieser Gelegenheit lernte er auch Szondi personlich kennen. Es war das Jahr 1962.

• Es entwickelte sich eine enge Zusammenarbeit mit Martin Achtnich. Herr Berlips besuchte ausserdem Kurse und Workshops in ganz Europa und bildete sich aus oder weiter in Gruppentherapie, vor allem mit humanistischer Ausrichtung und mit Schwerpunkt in Psychodrama.

• 1976 heiratete er seine heutige Frau Gunnel, eine klinische Psycholgogin, mit der er zusammen ein Psychotherapie-Zentrum betrieb. Die beiden haben zwei Sohne, die im Gegensatz zum Vater, jetzt das Gluck haben, sich an der Uni ihre Ausbildung als Arzt und Mathematiker zu holen.

• Anfang 1990 grundete Frau Berlips eine Institution fur problematische Madchen im Teenageralter. In Anlehnung an  M. Achtnich nannte sie die Einrichtung auch Phonix-Haus.

• 1995 mit 76 Jahren hat Herr Berlips beschlossen , nicht mehr zu arbeiten. So hatte er mehr Zeit zum Reisen. Das war dann auch das Jahr, wo wir uns zum ersten Mal begegnet sind. Wir sassen im Institut bei einem Cafe und ich frug Herrn Berlips, was er in Schweden fur die Schicksalsanalyse tun konne. Seine prompte Antwort war: Nichts.

• Das war aber ein Irrtum. Er hat namlich seither viel fur die Schicksalsanalyse getan - und nicht nur in Schweden, sondern weltweit - indem er 1996 das Szondi-Forum einrichtete. Das ist eine Homepage, auf der er zuerst seine eigene Zusammenfassung der Schicksalsanalyse veroffentlichte. Mit der Zeit holte er sich auch andere Artikel zur Schicksalsanalyse und machte sie in verschiedenen Sprachen aller Welt zuganglich.

• Lange bevor wir hier am Institut Internet oder eine Hompage hatten, fullte L. Berlips sein Szondi-Forum mit Artikeln und Nachrichten rund um die Schicksalsanalyse. Er hatte dabei Hilfe von seinen Sohnen, die ihn technisch auf dem Laufenden hielten. Finanziell wurde das alles von seiner Frau Gunnel gesponsert.

• Die Zeit und das Geld, das er fur die Sache der Schicksalsanalyse investierte kann ich nicht in Zahlen ausdrucken. Wohl aber den Umfang des Forums: es sind uber 490 Megabites. (einige tausend Buchseiten). Und um die Wirkung dieser Einrichtung zu zeigen: Inzwischen haben uber 50'000 Personen  sein Forum besucht und damit in irgendeiner Form mit der Schicksalsanalyse Kontakt aufgenommen.

• Neben der Tatigkeit mit dem Forum entwickelte L. Berlips auch eine grosse Reiseaktivitat. Er knupfte Beziehungen zu Schicksalsanalytikern von Europa nach Sudamerika bis Asien.
• Kurz: in den letzen 7 Jahren war er soetwas wie ein Missionar der Schicksalsanalyse. Was der Heilige Paulus fur die fruhe Chistenheit war, ist er fur uns Schicksalsanalytiker.

• Wir konnen hier niemanden  in den Stand der Heiligkeit versetzen, aber wir wollen ihm fur all das, was er fur die Schicksalsanalyse und ihre Anhanger getan hat danken, indem wir ihm die Ehrennadel uberreichen.

• Diese Nadel ist aus Silber und zeigt eine Brucke. Leo Berlips war wirklich ein Pontifex, ein Bruckenbauer unter uns Schicksalsanalytikern.

Dr. phil. Friedjung Juttner

Szondi-Institut Zurich

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Last update: 6 Oct 10:00pm GMT

The House of Life
Szondi Test: Its Interpretation and Graphological Indicators. By Arthur C. Johnston, PhD

Newsletter October 2006

Dear Friends,

In connection with some publicity in "Psycholog Nytt", the Swedish Journal for Psychologists: at the end of this Newsletter a special addition with the title:

"Welcome Swedish visitors".

News:

The University of Chicago will publish a paper, entitled "Schicksalsanalyse and Religion studies" by Prof. Richard Hughes in January, 2007. We have published several books and articles by this author. >hughes@lycoming.edu<

If you want to read the biography of Leopold Szondi, the originator of the Fate Analysis and the Drive Diagram press his picture at the first page. The same applies for the picture of Prof. Jacques Schotte, who developed Szondi's original theory and gave it the title "Pathoanalyse". For those of you who are interested in this theory  Dr. Robert Maebe >roma@yucom.be<,  has created a French Site which just has got a new address: <http://home.scarlet.be/cep/> At this address you will see that the CEP (Centre d'Etudes Pathoanalytiques) will organise a seminar  the 21 oktober in Louvain-la-Neuve about  "Crisis.

Do you know that your Szondi registrations can be worked out and interpreted by way of a  data program. One such program is based on classical Szondi interpretation and has been developed by Michael Vigdorchick and Slavick Shibayev. Originally it was in Russian but there exist an English and French text version. We are very glad to get the technical assistance of Slavick and his wife Oksana for the technical part of this website. In case you want to set up a webbsite you can contact him. For information: >slashi@gmail.com<

Attention: The following links can only be used WITHIN the framework of the Szondi forum:

The Romanian Szondi association

The Romanian Szondi association has changed its address. The new one is: www.leopoldszondi.ro

Karl Louvets Szondi Computer program

Karl Louvets Szondi Computer program (in French) has been updated with a second version name: Szondi97.zip, capacity 3454K, received 11 05 05. For Karl Louvet's interesting introduction to the "Circuit interpretation" (Micro Analys av Szondi protocols) based on Pathoanalytic interpretation, press:
SZONDI CIRCUIT INTERPRETATION (1-st part) - updated design
SZONDI CIRCUIT INTERPRETATION (2-nd part)
SZONDI CIRCUIT INTERPRETATION (3-rd part)  Word-Document(2.8Mb)  Zip-Archive(330K)

SZONDI CIRCUIT INTERPRETATION (4-th part). Drive Positions.
Comment to Karl Louvets contributions: 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 at least 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 also his  Computer Calculation program and save a lot of time. Of this Calculation program there are two versions (in  French).. Those are downloadable in the section "Liens" (heading "Matériel") from Karl Louvet´s site: >http://szondi.apinc.org/links.php?lng=fr< 

Article about Circuit theory by Melon  

Article about Circuit theory by Melon  Word-Document(167K)  Zip-Archive(23K)

At present psychiatrist Jean Mélon is regarded as the greatest Szondi specialist and has contributed with many important articles about Pathoanalyse.

SZONDI'S PERSONALITY THEORY IN THE YEAR 2004.

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

Two coloured visual presentations

Dr. Angel S. Gugliotti in Buenos Aires made two coloured visual presentations, which he uses when he teaches in " CIRCULO DE ESTUDIOS SZONDIANOS DE BUENOS AIRES.          " Part 1 and Part 2.

AFFECT VECTOR

Information about the "AFFECT VECTOR". Also called the "Paroxysmal drive"

Age norms

Age norms by Dr. H.J Ringger.  (In German)
Adult Norms 21 - 90 Year.

Miscellanous

Evaluacion psicodiagnostica de pacientes dependientes a substancias toxicas a traves de la prueba de szondi (in Spanish)

Profilul pulsional al criminalului (in Romanian)

Szondi's Personality Theory in The Year 2000 (in English) 

Reference to the article  "Who was Szondi - What is Fate analysis" (7 pages) in Section articles. We changed the name of this article into: "Szondi Biography" and made a link to Szondi's picture on the Front page.

Your "Editor's Professional Autobiography

FINISH INSIDE LINKS

Welcome Swedish visitors!

Falkenberg (soon Lund), October 2006

(OBS! There is documentation in Swedish on the website - look below in this introduction)

My name is Leo Berlips and I am the founder of Szondi Forum on the Internet. I set it up 1996, so this year it is 10 years anniversary! I arrived in Sweden as a Dutchmen 1956 and here I discovered the work of the Hungarian psychiatrist Leopold Szondi. It was at the university in Gothenburg. Since then I have been greatly motivated to help other people to discover Szondi's very useful personality theory and his work. I hoped 1996 that there should be some Swedish visitors to the new website Szondi Forum, but instead the first visitor was a Japanese Professor of  the Tokio University: "Takahisa Yamashita" >y.takahisa@gmail.com<