Léopold Szondi
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Léopold Szondi was a Hungarian psychiatrist, born in present day Slovakia and raised in a a German and Slovak speaking family. He is known for the psychological tool that bears his name, the Szondi test
. He developed a form of depth psychology
that had some prominence in Europe in the mid-20th century, but has been ignored for the most part. He escaped the Holocaust on the Kastner train
. From 1944 on, he lived in Switzerland.
Szondi test
The Szondi test is a psychological exam named after its Hungarian creator, Léopold Szondi in the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest Hungary. It is a projective personality test, similar to the well-known Rorschach test. The test consists of a series of 48 different photographs of the faces of...
. He developed a form of depth psychology
Depth psychology
Historically, depth psychology, from a German term , was coined by Eugen Bleuler to refer to psychoanalytic approaches to therapy and research that take the unconscious into account. The term has come to refer to the ongoing development of theories and therapies pioneered by Pierre Janet, William...
that had some prominence in Europe in the mid-20th century, but has been ignored for the most part. He escaped the Holocaust on the Kastner train
Kastner train
The Kastner train was a trainload of almost 1,684 Jews who, on June 30, 1944, escaped from Nazi-controlled Hungary, eventually arrived in Switzerland, while some 450,000 members of the Hungarian Jewish community were deported to the gas chambers at Auschwitz....
. From 1944 on, he lived in Switzerland.
Selected publications
- L. SZONDI: Schiksalanalytische Therapie. HuberHuberHuber is a surname of German origin. It derives from the German word Hube meaning hide, a unit of land a farmer might possess. It is in the top ten most common surnames in the German-speaking world, especially in Austria and Switzerland where it is the surname of approximately 0.3% of the...
, Bern und Stuttgart. 1963. - L. SZONDI: Schiksalanalyse. B. Schwabe Co., Basel. 1944.1., 44.
- L. SZONDI: Schiksalanalytische Therapie. Huber, Bern und Stuttgart. 1963. 63.
- L. SZONDI: Analysis of Marriages. An attempt at a theory of choice in love. Acta Psychologica, 1937.
- L. SZONDI: Das erste Buch: Schiksalanalyse. Wahl in Liebe, Freundschaft, Beruf, Krankheit und Tod. B. Schwabe, Basel, 1944.48.65.
- L. SZONDI: Das zweite Buch: Lehrbuch der Experimentellen Triebdiagnostik. Huber, Bern und Stuttgart, 1947.60.72.
- L. SZONDI: Das dritte Buch: Triebpathologie. Huber, Bern und Stuttgart, 1952.
- L. SZONDI: Das vierte Buch: Ich-Analyse. Huber, Bern und Stuttgart, 1956.
- L. SZONDI: Das fünfte Buch: Schiksalanalytische Therapie. Huber, Bern und Stuttgart, 1963.
- L. SZONDI: Kain. Gestalten des Bösen. Huber, Bern, Stuttgart, Wien, 1969.
- L. SZONDI: Schiksalanalytische Therapie. Huber, Bern und Stuttgart, 1963. 157-170.
- L. SZONDI: Ich-Analyse. Huber, Bern und Stuttgart, 1956.
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See also
- Péter SzondiPéter SzondiPéter Szondi was a celebrated literary scholar and philologist, originally from Hungary. His father was the Hungarian-Jewish psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Léopold Szondi, who settled in Switzerland after his 1944 release from Bergen-Belsen....
, his son - GenotropismGenotropismGenotropism is defined as the reciprocal attraction between carriers of the same or related latent recessive genes. Developed by the Hungarian psychiatrist Léopold Szondi in the 1930s, the theory concludes that instinct is biological and genetic in origin...