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<

He became one of my best friends and visited me two times in Sweden en two times at my anniversary in Thailand( By the way next December I will become  87 years but I am still -more or less going strong. My age reminds me often that I have to stop working too much as I have not the same capacity as before. You can know more of my history via the following link Editor's Professional Autobiography

As for the amount of visitors we got, after we started the original visitor, the original  counter indicated  on 2006-10-01: One hundred fifty three thousand eight hundred ninety three visitors. (153.893!) since we started the Szondi Forum in November 1996. So it shows that the forum has indeed realised my goal to mediate Szondi theory all over the World.

(The front page counter refers to my technical assistant Slavick Sjibajesv's counter.

Obs: To see the original counter take: Szondi groups: Swedish group/ The history of the Swedish group, see left side.)

When you like to read articles translated into Swedish you can click on Articles in the navigation menu to the left. Articles in Swedish are marked with the Swedish flag.

If you want to read the biography of Leopold Szondi, the originator of the Fate Analysis and the Drive Diagram press on 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 his contributions, Dr. Robert Maebe >roma@yucom.be<,  has created a special French Site:        CEP (Centre d'Etudes Pathoanalytiques). http://home.tiscali.be/yuc-roma/

Note also that there is since 2000-10-05 there has been a website for a Swedish Szondi group called Szondi Association Sweden - look at Szondi Association Sweden. Below you find a n offer to join from Rolf Kenmo, who is one of the founders of the group.

I hope that you have a good visit on the Szondi Forum today and often in the future.

Leo Berlips, editor.

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Information in Swedish about Rolf Kenmo:

Välkommen att ansluta dig till Szondi Association Sweden. Jag lärde mig Szondis personlighetsteori 1975 av psykologerna Lars-Erik Liljeqvist och Bo Haglund, som då verkade i GPI, Göteborgs Psykotekniska Institut. Jag har haft en ovärderlig nytta av teorin i mitt liv. Både för att förstå mig själv och andra. Det har t o m inneburit att jag har ändrat inriktningen för mitt arbetsliv - från IT till att bli humankonsult;-) För 20 år sedan inledde jag utvecklingen av ett personlighetsformulär, som baseras på en förenklad version av Szondis teori, eftersom det inte fanns något personlighetsformulär (enligt vad vi vet) i hela världen, som utgick från Szondis teori. Personlighetsformuläret visade sig mycket användbart och är nu kärnan i HumanGuide^R-koncepten, som kan användas för utveckling av individer och team samt i samband med rekrytering/omplacering. Användningen av koncepten är nu spridd till Brasilien och Schweiz. Du kan finna mera information om koncepten via webb-platsen

HumanGuideR.

För närvarande är det inga periodiska möten o dyl inom SAS utan kontakter sker inom nätverket efter vars och ens behov. Vi hoppas att en dag, så ska vi genomföra en global Szondi-konferens i Sverige. Sådana hålls vart tredje år och oftast vid ett universitet. 2008 genomförs den globala konferensen i Lissabon.

Att Sträva efter fria val i livet är en Szondi-inspirerad hälsning;-) från

Rolf Kenmo.

Dear Szondi Friends,

As you have seen we have updated the Forum with an article with the title: "Drive positions!" This is a corrected translation of an article that has been published already in our Newsletter of April 2005, as part Part 4 of the Szondi Circuit Interpretations by Karl Louvet. For you who wants to read the three first parts it is easy to go to this News section April 2005 and Download the contents of the other parts.
Moreover we have the pleasure to update the Forum with the whole SZONDI COURSE by Jean Mélon in ENGLISH, (359 pages!) translated by Arthur C. Johnston, PhD, 2005.
Due to the importance this Course has for learning the basic facts about the Szondi test and its interpretation I did not wait to adapt the content to the publication on the Forum. I am aware that this gives some inconvenience to the Forum readers. Unfortunately due to health reasons I have not yet the time to adapt the lay out of its presentation as I would like to do.
A few moments ago I spoke on Skype with my best friend Tkahisa Yamashita in Japan and he told me that at last Spring had come to Japan and how beautiful nature was there.
Here in Sweden Old man Winter tries to keep his cold hands still over the country but we know that beautiful Princess Spring is standing just around the corner and long very much to see her coming. We wish you herewith already some nice Easteern hoilidays and Slavick Sjibajev, my technical assistant and I send you our best regards,
Leo Berlips, editor www.szondiforum.org

Dear Szondi Friends,

21 02 06 Falkenberg, Sweden
Herewith follow s with great delay the Newsletter I wrote in January. The delay has the advantage that we could correct and take away all the links that were not working any more. (In case you see that your link is not yet included let me know and next time we put it on the Forum). We (Slavick Shibayev, my technical assistant and me) will moreover again publish the whole of Hughes Book about Death on the Forum. When this book got out of print I published it on the Szondiforum in September 2003. Unfortunately due to some technical fault the content disappeared. For more details see Newsletter.

Let us hope that hope that soon spring will be back and "Que tout renait a l'Espérance et que l'Hiver fuit loin de nous"" (part of a beautiful French song which means let us hope: "That all will be Newborn and the Winter leaves us).
Good luck to you all!
Leo Berlips, editor and Slavick Shibayev , Technical staff

Newsletter January 2006

Let me remind you that after some technical setbacks during last summer the Szondiforum resurrected as www.szondiforum.org. (Observe not: .com but ORG at the end). Please put a link to this new internet address from your own site. Thank you in advance. Ed.
The Roumanian Szondi association has changed its address. The new one is: www.leopoldszondi.ro
For those of you who are interested in Pathoanalyse, Dr. Robert Maebe roma@yucom.be, has created a special Site: CEP (Centre d'Etudes Pathoanalytiques); http://home.tiscali.be/yuc-roma
There he mentions the publication in June 2006 of a new book in French by Prof. Jacques Schotte. Title: "Un Parcours". Renc. Relier, Dialoguer, Partager. EditionL Le Pli, 5 Rue des Ecouffes, 75004 Paris. www.editionslepli.net

January News, 15 01 06

This I write you quite unexpectedly in Falkenberg and not in Pattaya as original was planned. The reason for this was that I quite suddenly decided to be together with my family to celebrate then New Years eve. This decision was made on the same day that my friend Takahisa Yamashita after a 4 days visit in Pattaya left me. We had a very nice time together and we both agreed that Pattaya is a very chaotic town with many associations to some Old Testament towns of well known renomee! Anyhow I was lucky to get the next day already a ticket back to Europe and could thus spent the New Years eve in Sweden, happily with my nearest family. However I had to pay some price for my return to the low temperatures in Sweden in the form of a very unpleasant cold that only slowly is disappearing. However the advantage to be back in Sweden again is the fact that it is much easier for me to use the internet and translate articles, so I am really glad to be back again and to be able to use my dictionaries and reference books.

In the first place I publish herewith the Index of the articles in the latest SZONDIANA, the official publication of the Szondi Institute in Zurich, together with the names and addresses of the authors.

The articles in Szondiana about my late friend Martin Achtnich's BBT test reminded me of the many decennia Martin and I corresponded with each other and awaked many memories of my visits to him. He had a decisive influence on my development as a psychologist and psychotherapist. It is always with feelings of great gratitude that I remember him. I also read in the Szondiana with interest about the progress of Rolf Kenmo's Personality test. In the beginning of his test development I had several times the pleasure to meet him and discuss his plans.

In my last newsletter I promised you that I would another time publish Prof. Richard Hughes (1) book: "The Radiant Shock of Death" (2). In order to give you a short Outline of the content of this book I publish herewith one of the key articles of his book. Moreover I attach some comments how in 2003 I "discovered" Hughes book, in connection with a TV theatre production of Faust on a German Satellite.

Hughes book is divided in three parts: Part 1. concerns the Szondi theory. Part 2. is focused on the philosophical aspects and Part 3. concerns the theological concepts. Hughes wrote already before a book about the traditional classical Szondi theory (what I sometimes call for the "Old Testament") with the original title: "THE RETURN OF THE ANCESTOR". This is one of the few books in English about Szondi.and his work. You will find it on the on the Szondiforum in the section "Articles", with the title "Introduction to Szondi". (If you press the picture of Szondi on the front page you can read the first 10 pages of this book).

This remind me of the fact that originally I was convinced that the main use of the Szondiforum would be to give information about the New Development of Szondi's theory by Prof. Schotte to readers outside of Europe. But at present I am convinced that even many professionals who adhere to Pathoanalyse will find it worthwhile to get a better acquaintance with Szondi's theory about the familiar unconsciousness by reading: "The return of the Ancestor".

In "The Radiant Shock of Death" Hughes points out to the activity of the Szondi need factor (e) together with factor (p) as the origin of many of the phenomena he describes in his book. (He states: "The relationship between epilepsy and paranoia has a fundamental bearing upon this book". p.38).

For you who are less interested to read his philosophical and theological interpretations I publish in this Newsletter only the chapter: "Epilepsy and Paranoia". The whole book will be published on the Szondi Forum. I have only to check another time the digital inscanning of the last pages.

In case any of you have some interesting articles about Szondi let me know and I will try to get them transferred on the Forum. In connection with this I would like to thank my friend Slavick Shibayev in Odessa for his kind assistance with the technical aspects of the Forum. If you want to develop your own site or need the solution of specific internet problems I am sure he can help you to find solutions for your problem

CONTENTS SZONDIANA

Inhalt

Tamas Bereczkei, Petra Gyuris, Glenne E. Weisfeld: Sexual Imprinting in Human Mate Choice

Dietrich Blumer:  The Biologic Basis of Hysteria and its Polarity to Epilepsy

Maria CsillaB; Eine Fallbesprechung  ( A Case history)

Jens De Vleminck: What it is like to be a Philosopher: a Szondian Analysis

Esther Genton-Meier: Eine Paargeschichte aus der Literatur im Lichte der Schicksalspsychologie 
(The history of a matrimony seen in the light of Fateanalysis)

Rita Harbitai: Testological and Narrative Markers of Depressive Dynamics

Rolf Kenmo: Human Guide Improves Work and Life

Enikö Gyönyösine Kiss: Comparing the Factors of Cloninger's Temperament and Character Inventory (TCI) with the Szondi- Test 

 Andrea Köuesdi: Fate Analysis in Cases of BPD

Virbinia Rotarescu: The Self (Ego) Mechanism and Organic Lesions 

Philip R. Seidel: :Die Integration von Pharmakopsychiatrie und klinischer Psychiatrie auf der Basis eines neuen funktion alen somatopsychischen Denkansatzes

Kristzina Toth: Fate Analysis in Allergic Disorders  

Gisella M.R. Welter: The Human Guide in Brazil- Team development in a Medium Size Laundry Company.   A Longitudinal Case Study with the BBT - Berufsbildertest 
GW Vocação e Relações Humanas
>www.gwconsult.com.br < phone/fax 55 11 5687-8826

Impressum 
==========================================Autoren 

Gyuris Petra, University of Pecs, Institute of psychology, Ifusag no. 6, 7624 Pees, Hungary 

Blumer Dietrich, M.D., Professor of psychiatry, University of Tennessee, Memphis 4010 Baldwin Square Memphis TN, 38117, USA 

Csillag Maria, Dr., Rhidey u.S, 1026 Budapest II, Ungarn, uikarius@ztLhu 

De VleminekJens, Hoger Institut voor Wijsbegeerte, Kardinal Mercierplein 2 B-3000 leuven, Belgien 

Genton-Meier Esther, Rue des Terreaux 13, CH-100 3 lausanne 

Hargitai Rita, Uniuersity ofPies, Institute of psychology, Ifjusag no. 6, 7624 Pees, Hungary 

Kenmo Rolf, Human konsult AB, Oenbergsvuaegen 19, S-14640 Tuliinge, Sweden rolf.kenmo@humankonsult.se 

Eenikö Gyöngyösini Kiss, Dr. PhiL, University of Pees, Institute of Psychology ,lfjusag no. 6 7624 Pecs, Hungary, kiss.eni@freemaiLhu 

Köuesdi Andrea, 2330 Dunnaharaszti Szent Istuan u. 11, Hungary, andikouesdi@freemaiLhu 

Rotareseu Virginia, Str. Stolniei nr. 11, BI. 44, se B, et. III, ap. 27, sect.IV, Bucharest, Romania 

Seidel Philip R., Dr. Med., Spezialarzt fur psychiatrie und psychotherapie FM H Hinterbergstrasse 110, CH-8044 Zurich 

Toth Krisztina, Fe/höstrasse 18, 2000 Szentendre, Hungary, tothkriszt@inuitel.hu 

Welter Giselle M., Rua das Barcas 800, 044641 - 070 Sao Paulo, Brasilien. GW Vocação e Relações Humanas
>www.gwconsult.com.br < phone/fax 55 11 5687-8826

The Radiant Shock of Death"

Chapter. IV. EPILEPSY AND PARANOIA

One of Dostoevsky’s original insights dealt with paranoia as a derivative of epilepsy, occurring either after or between seizures. Beginning in 1944, Szondi explored the relationship between epilepsy and paranoia, and he provided detailed documentation of the clinical evidence.

In 1895 A. Bucholtz described chronic paranoia on an epileptic base in his Habilitation thesis. Seven years later, W. Weygand stated that the epileptic could suffer delusional persecutions and hallucinations. When documenting these early sources, Szondi points out that paranoia strikes after epileptic convulsions have been controlled.

Similarly, paranoia obtains in stuttering as well as other combinations. As an example, the following paragraph is my translation of one of Szondi’s cases (198).

For many years (he) treated a 25-year old, unmarried woman, who suffered genuine epilepsy severely. She lived with her mother, who was a charming but pathologically masochistic, hysterical, and occasionally depressed person. Mother and daughter lived in a sadomasochistic bond. The daughter, who played the sadistic role against the hysterical-masochistic mother in this relationship, attempted to poison her with Luminal. She had to be hospitalized from time to time, because of other paranoid, persecution delusions toward the mother.

Szondi approaches this paranoia-epilepsy link in terms of the theory of Ego splitting. For example, inflation might be present in the conscious foreground of the personality, while paroxysmal reactions rumble in the unconscious background. Persons who suffer this kind of splitting display a rapid rotation of these “split-off” phases. So at one time, they become schizoform-inflative, as though possessed, and, at another, they discharge epileptiform seizures in the form of poriomania, which is an aimless, lonely, wandering without any awareness. Dostoevsky portrays this type of splitting in the prodromata and inter- seizure behavior of Prince Myshkin. Szondi contends that rotating ego phases could be exchanged for one another, succeed one another, or work together as opposites (e.g. projective paranoia co-acting with convulsion and violent intent).

The issue discussed by Szondi also raises a historical problem. In 1963 two British psychiatrists presented the same idea, claiming to have achieved a breakthrough. Conceptualized as “the schizophrenic-like psychoses of epilepsy,” the study was based upon 69 epileptics, suffering chronic psychoses with grand mal, petit mal, and focal seizures (Slater and Beard 1963). The patients acquired epilepsy in their late teens or early 20s and exhibited auras, twilight states, warm feelings, irritability, aggressiveness, stubbornness, and periodic depression. Despite delusions and hallucinations, the patients retained clear dream content and religious feelings. One of the crucial contributions of this study was the observation that psychoses of epilepsy are cyclical and without mental deterioration. In contrast, genuine schizophrenia runs a course, leading (39) toward mental deterioration

Otherwise, the study did not achieve a new breakthrough; for the authors neglected the French and German literature of the asylum doctors. The failure to maintain historical scholarship has been one of the consequences of medical specialization in the age of neurology.

The relationship between epilepsy and paranoia has a fundamental bearing upon this book. As explained primarily by Szondi, paranoia is characterized by the expansion of the ego onto a cosmic level. The paranoid has the unique ability to expand ego boundaries by stripping away bodily limitations (Szondi 1987, 290). This capacity for ego expansion can be constructive or destructive. On the one hand, one can be:

a) healthy and of paranoid disposition and achieve metaphysical understanding or paranormal insight. On the other hand,

b) in an unhealthy state the paranoid can acquire schizophrenia and regress to an elementary level of magical-occult thought, suffering delusions and hallucinations, and sometimes epileptiform symptoms like migraines and stuttering. (End Chapter  IVii).

Information about Prof Richard Hughes see: http://srv2.lycoming.edu/~hughes
In connection with the publication on the Forum I wrote the following introduction: "The Primary Clear Light" by Leo Berlips. 

These notes were written October 2003 when during a correspondence about the epileptic personality with Richard Hughes I quite unexpected got a new “insight” in the relation of this kind of personality with other fields and  situations. I remembered that Szondi had written a book about Cain, a prototype of the epileptic personality. Opening my Forum and looking at how Hughes presented his book I quite unexpectedly found a reference to another book that he had written earlier: “The Radiant Shock of Death”. He introduced this book with the following words:

"This book deals with the dreams and visions of death and grief, using Dr.Szondi's ideas, and drawing upon epilepsy as the medical paradigm of the death experience. I posit the idea of the acceleration of death in the face of mortal danger; i.e. facing death or danger the mind speeds up and intensifies, becoming luminous. This parallels the Dostoevsky aura".

Although I never read this book before some of my notes can be used as a strong support for Hughes viewpoint. All these intellectual impressions got suddenly a kind of coherence for me in connection with the presentation by the German Satellite ZDF - Theaterkanal of the complete dramatic set-up of Faust.1 and 2, by director Stein. (I think he made this production for the World fair in Hannover last year).

Both Faust and Joyce “Ulyseus” are my favourite books, which I thoroughly (and with great pleasure) have ploughed through during the eighties. Both I tried to understand better by using many different exegesis books as reference.  I would say that this analytic part of “working through” these books was as interesting for me as enjoying the beauty of the text.

As a psychodrama director I once even tried out some experiments with a group of patients with whom I worked. I started then with a kind of relaxation exercise until the group came in a “dream state”. After this I  “exposed” the group members to a form of “poetry therapy”, by reading softly in Swedish the beautiful text of the first part of Faust  2, the part where the Fairies awake Faust and his monologue. Although the group member were satisfied I found other methods more effective.

When looking at the Fairy introduction in Stein’s Television registration of Part 2, I suddenly understood that there is a  connection between:

1.      Faust reaction to the Intensive Sun. (Goethe, Faust. C.H.Becksche Verlagsbuchhandlung, München 1972). ISBN 3 406 047238

2.      The first experience after death, as described in the Tibetan Book of Death. (Das tibetanische Totenbuch oder Die Nach- Tod- Erfahrung auf der Bardo- Stufe.
 Sonderausgabe.//Paperback//4 Taf., 5 Abb. 335 pages,WALTER VERLAG)
ISBN: F3530880019 , EAN: 9783530880014

3.      The “Primary Clear Light at the moment of Ego-loss”, as Timothy Leary described  in “The psychedelic experience”, a manual based on his experiences with LSD he compared with the Book of Death.

 Timothy Leary: “the Psychedelic experience”. A manual based on the book of the dead. Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing. ISBN 0-8065-1652-6.  

4.      The descriptions of Near Death Experience as described by Richard Hughes in his book ”The Radiant shock of Death”.

Based on this insight I came to the conclusion that the scene of Faust awakening and his comments on the reflection of the Sun might be interpreted as a poetic description by Goethe of Faust “Reincarnation”. According to this interpretation this section refers to the aftermath of an “Ego-Loss experience” as described in the Tibetan book of the Death or in Leary’s manual. In this scene, as many others already have pointed out, Goethe poetically describes a new step in the spiritual development of Faust. This opinion is supported by the way Faust two further develops, i,c. the many episodes where Goethe uses archetypical symbols which point out in this direction.

My next conclusion was that Hughes conclusions again underline Szondi’s theory (conception) that many great founders of religion had a strong epileptic personality. It seems that intensive mental chock experiences contribute to the spiritual development of the human personality.

In order to complete these notes I would also like to refer to  Stanislaw Grof ' s book “Encounter with death”.(1977). There Grof describes how the application of LSD therapy can contribute to alleviating the psychic and physical pains of the cancer patient in the terminal stage. It has always been a riddle for me why professionals are not allowed to use this effective method further investigation in the realms of the  unconsciousness and to assist the patients to reconcile himself with the process of dying.

POSTSCRIPT 15.01.06.

During the correction reading of my digital inscanning I became more and more proud to be able to publish this book again.  The content showed me again the great erudition of Prof Hughes. I was especially impressed by the fact that Prof. Hughes  (in VIII. MIND AS ACT page 155 - 157) sketches a very original theory about:   

“ the NDE with reference to the foregoing clinical and metaphysical issues. This proposed theory also embraces the dreams and visions of death and grief. A general theory of these phenomena should abandon a view of reality as exhaustively physical, objective, sequential, and locomotive. Such a theory should also give up the attempt to locate mind as an entity, capable of separating from the bodily brain. The conception of mind as entity carries on the older notion of soul as entity as well. I propose to conceive of mind as act. The principal reason is to explain the primary datum of shock events, namely, acceleration of thought”. I do hope that this reference contribute that his theory will be known in wider circles”.

Hughes other book "Cain's Lament: A Christian Moral Psychology." is available from Peter Lang AG; Jupiterstrasse 15; CH 3000, Bern 15; Switzerland.

FINISH JANUARY NEWSLETTER.

General News 21 12 05

Dear Friends,

In the first place I hope you receive the this in the best of conditions and that it means the beginning of some nice holidays for you.

At last herewith some news again about my latest adventures. At the end of October I left Sweden and since then I am already more than six weeks in Pattaya in Thailand, located about 3 hours driving distance to the South East of Bangkok. Unfortunately the weather here was not as good as before. It looks like that even Thailand is exposed to the consequences of the global weather change and that the Monsoon period keeps going on longer than the other years. Especially the Southern provinces of Thailand suffer heavy damage by the floods caused by the torrential rains. Moreover the average temperature for this time of the year in Thailand is also much lower than usual. Some nights the temperature in Bangkok was only 20 degrees C. and in the hotel one can hear a lot of people who got a cold coughing and sneezing.

Pattaya, pronuciated with the accent on the last letter (a), is of one of the biggest tourist centers and is sometimes called the Las Vegas of Thailand.  According to the statistics out of the 14 million foreign tourists who visit Thailand two million Americans are expected to stop here each year for a holiday. One of the reasons that Pattaya is so well known in the States is that the Americans under many years had a big navy base located near the town.

 It is also a reason why Pattaya probably has the highest concentration of Bar girls in town. For Westerners and especially Western women the problem with prostitution is hard to understand and they are often extremely hard in their judgments about these girls. I have already before in my news about Thailand taken up this problem and pointed out  some of the cultural reasons for this. For instance the Chinese influence of having concubines and the fact that the average Thai man quite regularly visit prostitutes.

This means that Western men can not only be blamed for these cultural facts. Even when they would not arrive prostitution in Thailand would continue as before.Since I wrote about this before I have become still more aware of other causes of this problem.  For instance when one talks with a, for the most part, very hard working Thai woman (and don’t forget that there are many, many millions of them!!) one often hears the same story again and again.  They marry young, get one or two children and then, after maybe ten years of marriage, the husband finds another young woman and just says goodbye without generally taking any care of his family! 

The other reason for the high amount of prostitution  is the fact that most of the bar girls  come from Isan (about 80 %),  one of the poorest provinces located in the North East.

Without any education they have only one way of taking care of their families by selling their bodies.

By the way the Thai family ties are extremely tight. Europeans who marry a Thai lady often describe this “as if they got married with the whole family”! Anyhow if one knows these background facts one get very probably a much milder view on these girls.

For my part I have a very great admiration for all the Thai women who, in any form it may be and in such hard conditions take care and responsibility for their children and family. They are really survival artists. I wonder sometimes why not some of the strong Western  Women organization  actively tries to assist their suffering Asian sisters.

However let me over to another topic. Although the high season has already started less tourists arrived than expected. I feel sorry for my Thai friends who make a living by tourism; many of them anticipated that despite the Tsunami setback the tourists would start to come again but this has not happened yet although we are on top of the high season.

This fateful dependency on tourism might have been one of the reasons why a few days ago the Thai premier minister introduced a very ambitious Mega- project by inviting the world capitalists to participate in a multi milliard investment in different projects in Thailand. This might give origin to a strong foreign capital injection into the country which all what that means as for “the better” (work, independency of the one sided tourism) or for the worse (corruption, overriding local individual interests etc.)

I think I already mentioned last year that since Takshin the premier minister started,

(he is by the way one of the richest persons in Thailand) the shareholders made more than 80% profit but the State debt rose by not less than  60%! The Rich became 80% richer and the average person became  60% poorer. So much as for the blessings of modern

Capitalism.

As for my stay: As I already informed some of you I rented a cheap room in the Hotel: “Diana Garden Lodge”, in North Pattaya until the beginning of 2007. However I plan to return to Sweden at the end of April.

The hotel is very beautifully located away from the center, near a big golf driving field (range) with beautiful gardens and flowers. Due to the extended field and the large garden the air is very pure compared with the other   located  in the center. I enjoy myself often when taking breakfast on the balcony of the bungalow of my new friend Eugene and see the butterflies dancing between the beautiful flowers of the tropical garden.  

Right in the beginning of my sojourn in the hotel I had the good luck to meet Eugene. He is a retired English constructor, eighty year, still going strong, a tough expatriate.  He just had sold his heavy motor cycle but still continues driving his own car in the difficult and dangerous Thai traffic. He certainly can be called a “self made” man. He started with next to nothing, emigrated and worked in the USA, returned back to England and built up and owned, already when he was only thirty, three construction sites in different places of England. To travel to these places he used his own sport plane. One of his hobbies was taking part in amateur car racing on the big international circuits in Europe. After the death of his wife and his retirement he moved to the Philippines and after that to Thailand.  He lives here already 14 years.  

We get along very well and have of a lot of experiences to share with each other. We meet each morning at ten o’clock for a cup of tea. He gives me often a lift to the shopping centers of town.  

However nevertheless our adventurous backgrounds we live at present a very quiet existence. For instance I stay in my room most of the time in the evening and look at the French TV 5 Asia, enjoying the movies or other interesting programs´(sometimes even a South Korean Soap opera). TV5 is one of the sixty channels I can select on bletelevision. As I like to use the French language more than any other language I speak, I feel quite happy  to refresh my knowledge of French. In this way my evenings pass by in a very quiet way.

That brings me to the question how I spent my days in Pattaya since I came. Due to my knee operation I did not go out or did a lot of sight seeing, although the town has a very long and nice beach boulevard.

I was aware of this already from the beginning and originally planned to use a few hours each day to read and listen to lectures on ebooks. That was indeed how in the beginning I spent my time however gradually I did less and less than I had planned.  

I started anyhow re-reading a very interesting book about the  American  philosopher KEN WILBER and his theories about Transpersonal Psychology and his view on the development of mankind to a higher spiritual level.  It was written by a Dutchman, Frank Visser, and translated in German with the title “Ken Wilbur, Denker aus Passion”.

In addition to this I began to listen to an ebook lecture , about Zen Buddhism by Alan Watt with the title  “Out of your mind”.  Although Alan Watt has often a rather humoristic way of explaining this subject unfortunately the content of his lectures often slipped through my Ears! Not so difficult to understand my problem if you know that the main subject of his  lectures is about >the Void, the Nothing and Space<.

Because I got somewhat tired of my lack of understanding I did not continue listening to “The Tibetan book of Death” which I save for some time later. By checking on some of the Notes I had written about the Tibetan book of Death I was lucky and found again a book that I assumed  to be lost by a technical mistake from the Forum as well as from my computer. This book which was written by theology professor Richard Hughes has the title “The Radiant Chock of Death”. Because this book has got out of print I had promised Prof. Hughes that I would publish it on the Szondiforum in order that his students still could use it as study literature.

So I do hope it will be a nice Christmas surprise for him and his students to know that  this book soon can be used again. (I will attach the Index of this book to this newsletter so that those of you who are interested can read the contents. (Later I will publish also a translation of my notes I wrote about the Tibetan book of Death in connection with  Hughes book).

But beside this sudden rather limited intellectual activity writing this General Newsletter I must acknowledge that since some weeks I often feel more and more like one of Odysseus seaman living in Lotus land, instead of being a Swedish tourist in Pattaya. So therefore I long to start again with a somewhat more disciplined routine. For instance I would like again translating Karl Louvets interesting articles about the application of the pathoanalytical circuit theory. I think Karls contributions to the Szondi movement are worth while and really worthwhile to translate  into English. It is really a loss for the Szondimovement that Karl Louvet became so disappointed with the lack of response to his internet Site that he took it away! I really do hope that someday he will anyhow start publishing his new contributions to the Szonditheory. 

Unfortunately my computer is not quite in order yet so I have anyhow to wait to get it repaired before I can really start again.  But maybe in January I can begin with that project and leave the Lotus land atmosphere behind me.

The 25 th of December my very best Szondifriend Prof. Takahisa Yamashita will visit me in Pattaya and be present at my 86 birthday. I look forward to meet him especially as unfortunately no one of my family has an occasion to be present. Anyhow I hope that my wife Gunnel will soon visit me in January. 

I finish this information by wishing you all a MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR.

My thoughts go especially these days to my Szondifriends: Takahisa Yamashita, Bob Maebe and Friedjung Juetner, who encouraged me more than ten years ago to continue  with the Szondiforum.

To my sons John Patrick and Jens who assisted me technically starting the internet site; and to Slavick and Oksana Shybajev who during many Years took over the responsibility for the technical existence of the Szondiforum on the Internet.

But more than anything else my thoughts go out to my wife Gunnel, who all these years kept up with me and sponsored the Szondiforum.  Without her patience and goodwill the Szondiforum could not have survived.  Therefore

IN THE NAME OF  ALL FORUM READERS  THANK YOU DEAR GUNNEL!

Leo Berlips, editor >www.szondiforum.org<

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Herewith the TABLE OF CONTENTS of The Radiant Chock of Death”, by Richard Hughes.

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION: A PSYCHOLOGY OF DEATH

Last update 18 Oct 2005 20:00GMT

Dear Szondi Friends,
17 10 05
As many of you have noticed it was impossible to use the webbaddress www.szondiforum.com during the last four months. The reason was that during a period of problems with my health the domain registration slipped through our fingers and the original webbaddress got into the hands of a certain Jason Peterson (webadmin@activeideas.com) in the USA.

After many difficulties my assistant Slavick Shibayev succeeded to get us a new address which is http://www.szondiforum.org/ This is the web address that will publish again the total content of the former szondiforum.
I suggest that you and other Szondi students contact this address as soon as possible or put a link on to your own site because I expect then that Google soon will refer again to this new address.
SPREAD THE NEWS!

In a few months I will become 86 years so I hope you will understand that I have not anymore the same energy to continue with my translation work. However I plan anyhow to finish an article by Karl Louvet that I started, about the function of the [k + ] interpreted according to the circuit theory. Please have some patience.
My own plans are to fly again next Saturday the 22/10 to Thailand and to spend the winter there. I wish you all success with your Szondi studies and send you my best Szondi Greetings.
Leo Berlips, editor: www.szondiforum.org
leo@berlips.com

Dear friends,
29 05 05
I am sorry to inform you that although I had looked forward very much to be present at the International Szondi Congress the : in Hungary I can't come. The main reason is that I still have some problems with my health and therefore have to take it easy.
Anyhow to all of you who have the possibility to participate at the Congress I send my best wishes and hope that your presence at the Congres proves to be worth while.
Kind regards from Leo Berlips, ed. >www.szondiforum.com<

17 TH INTERNATIONAL SZONDI CONFERENCE

Fate-analysis: Innovative directions in the theory and practice

Conference schedule

23.06.2005. Thursday

24.06.2005. Friday

01 01 05

Dear Friends,
Herewith we update the Forum with two coloured visual representations made by Dr. Angel S. GUGLIOTTI which he uses when he teaches in his " CIRCULO DE ESTUDIOS SZONDIANOS DE BUENOS AIRES " Part 1 and Part 2.

As most of you already know I live this winter again in Thailand. In connection with the Sumani wave we had a narrow escape. See my (this time gramatically corrected) report. In this report I forgot to thank all of you who gratulated me to my birthday.

So dear Friends, you really made me Happy to receive and read your birtday wishes. Thank you so much!!

I look forward to the year 2005, especially because I got interested in a very original introduction to the Pathoanalogical way of interpreting the Szondi test with the "Circuit analysis method by Karl Louvet, a student of Prof. Jacques Schotte. For you who can read French I suggest you have already a look at his French Site.

29 12 04, Wedness day, Phuket Island

We are very happy to be able to let you know that we are Safe!
Although we had a narrow escape. Because originally we had planned to make a trip to the famous Pipi Island the very day of the castrophy. It was the island where many tourists were drowned on the beaches. However just the day before the Sumaniwave we changed our plan and stayed in Karon. (Phuket)

Still both my son and me had as narrow escape as we only one hour before the Sumani arrived at the Karon Beach we were making a short walk there. Lycky enough for us when the wave stroke the beach we were sitting in the front entrance of our Guesthouse, about one kilometer away from the sea, when the whole picture of street life started to change into a kind of Fellini movie. Suddenly all people were shouting warnings and running or driving into the direction of Inland.

We to had to leave immediately our Guesthouse and forced to get onto a higher level, as soon as possible. The reason for this was that there had been warnings that a new high wave would strike the coast and nobody knew anything about its height. After a long time walking upwards in the hot sun we arrived at last at the top of a small hill, about 50 -60 meters high were we had to wait many hours till the late afternoon before we could go down again. Up till this time the police had stopped the traffic.

Happily enough for the Karon Hotel and shopowners Karon had probably the least damaged beach of the whole aerea, although even here many persons lost their lifes. As I suppose you will have read already read or seen more extended news I keep this report short.

Newsletter 6.12.2004

Dear Szondi Friends,

Herewith we inform you that we plan to update the Szondi Forum with the following articles and information:

1. We will open a new Map with the title  "AFFECT VECTOR" in which we plan to  put:

1. The original German text of Dr. H.J. Ringger's article about the Paroxysmal Vector to which we referred to in our last Newsletter. I hope you will excuse the delay of  this publication, which is due to the different changes of my residence. (Sweden, Spain,  Thailand).
2. In order that English readers can get some impression about the content of this article we will also publish the first 16 pages of Ringger's in English.
3. Suzanne Déri's popular description of this Vector.
4. Extract (in English) about the Pathoanalytical vieuw on the Affect Vector by Lekeuche  with a extended litterature reference, and
5. Jean Mélon view on Affects (in French/English).
6. An article by Philippe Lekeuche (in French) entitled the "Karamazov Brethern and the Paroxysmal Vector".
7. An article by Richard Hughes about " Påroxysmal imagination.
8. Extract of Martin Achtnich's vieuw on the (e) factor.

2. A short notice in French about the Reedition of Prof. Borg's book.

"Szondi´s Personality Theory in the Year 2004:  Validity and reliability for the Szondi test in the year 2004"

3. A link to a Dutch Szondi Web site.
4. A link to Burgi's Swiss Szondi site - www.leopold-szondi.ch
5. The Forum will take away expired links and unnecessary information.
6. Click a picture at the top to read Leopold Szondi's or Jacques Schotte's biography
7. We remind you of wil point out again to Rolf Kenmo's questionnaire.

During the next four months I will be in Thailand where you can contact me by email.

We wish you all a MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Leo Berlips, editor Szondi Forum >leo@berlips.com<

AFFECT VECTOR

The Psychology of the Paroxysmal drive. H.J. RINGGER	Word-Document(76K)	Zip-Archive(16K)
Zur Psychologie des Paroxysmaltriebes	Word-Document(346K)	Zip-Archive(58K)
The PAROXYSMAL VECTOR. Suzanne Deri.	Word-Document(821K)	Zip-Archive(194K)
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