THE SZONDI TEACHINGS.

[ Szondi Teachings] THE SZONDI IMPULSES VIEWED AS NEEDS/STRIVINGS. EACH IMPULSE IS DEFINED AS EXISTING WITHIN THE EIGHT FOUNDATION PSYCHIATRIC CONDITIONS, WHICH SERVE AS THE "BASIS" TERM AND MEASURING DEVICE FOR BOTH THE SZONDI TEST AND FATEANALYTIC PSYCHOLOGY. In Szondi's view each Factor, is modeled after a psychiatric condition, that has in its nature an inherent drive that seeks satisfaction. Each may be viewed as also being a basic (every human has) needs and strivings. These needsl/strivings belonging to the nature of specific Szondi defined psychiatric types. The function of the Szondi Test is to filter out the type and their relative strienghts, by the like and dislike of the test material which consists of reagent quality facial photos. The (gene/ancestor set) reagent quality of these photos, acts to cause a subject to like or dislike them depending on some unconscious setting of his drives at the time the test was made. The results representing a mirror of the relative power or attraction of such drives and needs for the tested person. This is somewhat different than what happens in other projective tests commonly used in psychological testing, as they are based on other processes, for example the Rorschach Ink Blot Test, uses an entirely different probing method, and as reesult filters out somewhat different aspects of the tested subject's personality/ The amorphous blot forms images with certain qualities rather than the selected relative affinities across the eitht of psychiatric types. Keep in mind that non-clinical cases have only general type relation to the clinical examples, Nevertheless the Szondi named psychiatric conditions become our measuring stick and our navagation tool for our personality studies. This structured schema also sets it outside of most of today's accepted psychological systems. THIS IS IS AS CONTRUCTED BY YOUR EDITOR, WHO IS TO BLAME FOR ANY ERRORS And things Szond'i never would have said this way #

#1

[[h]	Reagent Photo: [h] Male homosexual. strongly overloaded with feminine characteristics.
1. Need for personal affection, (varies from simple friendly impulses to the Eroto-manias and cravings of love. Associates generally with tenderness and feminine modes of thinking.

#2

[[s]	Reagent Photo: [s] Sadistic perpetrator.
2. Need for activity, assertion, (varies from enjoyment of starting the day to mental and physical activities to hardness and actual events tinged with sadism. Associates with hardness and masculine modes of thinking.

#3

[e]	Reagent Photo:[e] Epileptics in inter-paroxsmal over-controlled phase.
Need for Control of Emotions. (Varies in amounts of control and related ethical restrains, from reasonable practical to moments over enrolled to that under-controlled and good thinking/behaving nature shutting off. Here tendencies to being 'Good Abel' or polar to the envious hateful 'Cain' may assert, depending on the compromises available to be used.

#4

[[hy]	Reagent photo :[hy] Need to show emotional and self displaying aspects of self.
Need to show on self, to be admired and to express ( varies from shyness, tactful showing of desire for attention to strong exhibitionistic acts or desires.

#5

[[k]	Reagent Photo:: [k] Narcissistic self-contained Catatonics..
Need to include in the mind-image index certain signifiers of 'what and who I believe I am'. This varies from a usable and adaptive self-space to Narcissistic isolations where the self is far more important than others.)

#7

[[p]	Reagent Photo: [p] Paranoids in the clinical state of over projection out shifting of repressed desires,
Need to participate, to find mental and emotional satisfying ways of unfolding ones needs, strivings, and inclinations. (varies from satisfactory balanced rational and effective modes of adjustment that can in some become over rationalistic or turn to projected forms of blaming of others or even as to move one to the borders of paranoia.)

#7

[[d]	Reagent Photo: [d] depressives,
Need for 'Objects' with bonding Power (Here objects means those persons or things that when the are lost to you it is painful, and literally depressing. These can be small things, big things, money things or minor or major loved persons. Mood depressive when any such specially-keyed type bond is threatened with ending dependency connections and aspects similar to those found in the 'anal phase, as described by K. Abraham.

#8

[m]	Reagent Photo: [m] Manics,
Need for object dependency as and enjoyment seeking manic phase cases. problematics resembling the problematic of the oral phase; ( Psychoanalyst, Karl Abraham.)