Szyndi Liptot

* Nyitra, March 11, 1893 – † Küsnacht/Switzerland, January 24/27, 1986. / neurologist, ; psychiatrist ; ; Born as the twelfth child from his father’s second marriage – a poor shoemaker. At the age of five, he moved to Budapest with his family, where he completed his secondary school studies. Influenced by his brother, a doctor, he chose the medical profession. In World War I, he was a paramedic and team doctor. After graduating, he worked in the psychological laboratory led by Pál Ranschburg at the Apponyi Polyclinic. From 1919, he ran a private psychological and endocrinological practice. During his scientific research, he dealt with questions of constitution, heredity and hormonal issues. From 1927, he taught psychopathology at the Special Education Teachers’ College and headed the college’s pathology and therapeutic laboratory. His extensive family tree research in the laboratory formed the basis for his investigations into fate analysis. The first era of fate analysis lasted from 1936 to 1944. His first publication on fate psychology (Analysis of Marriages) was published in Acta Psychologica in 1937. In 1941, he lost his job as a result of the Jewish law. ; On July 30, 1944, he left Hungary with an organized group as part of a Zionist rescue operation, and then on December 7, 1944, he was transferred from the Bergen Belsen camp to Switzerland. He settled permanently in Zurich, where he built up the Szondi circle around himself. He practiced psychiatry and psychology, and further developed the scientific theoretical and practical research he had begun in Hungary. In 1947, he founded the Experimental Instinct Diagnostic and Fate-Analytic Working Group, in 1958 the International Research Center for Fate Psychology was established, and in 1961 the Swiss Fate-Analytic Medical Society. In 1969, after a successful fate-analytic therapy, the Szondi Institute (Stiftung-Szondi-Institut) was established from a donation by the family of the cured patient. In 1981, the Sorbonne awarded him an honorary doctorate. The Szondi Institute Foundation in Zurich remembered him at a ceremonial meeting on January 17, 1987. Today, he is best known for the psychological testing instrument he created and that bears his name, the Szondi test (originally called experimental instinct diagnostics), although in the 20th century In the mid-19th century, he gained relative fame in Europe as a scholar of depth psychology, primarily as the developer of the theory called the fate-analytic instinct system. His son, Péter Szondi (1929–1971), was a literary scholar and committed suicide. ; ; His main works: ; The Defective Mind, 1925, ; Methodological Elements of Family Research and Twin Research, 1935, ; The Definition of Man in the Experience System of Instincts, 1942, ; The Experimental Analysis of the Self, 1943, ; Schicksalsanalyse, 1948, ; Lehrbuch der experimentellen Triebdiagnostik I-III., 1948, ; Triebpathologie, 1952, ; „Ich-Analyse”. Die Grundlage zur Vereinigung der Tiefenpsychologie, 1956, ; Achicksalsanbalytische Therapie (Ein Lehrbuch der passiven und aktiven analytischen Psychotherapie), 1963, ; Kain Gestalten des Bösen, 1969, ; Moses Antwort auf Kain, 1973, ; Die Triebentwischten, 1980, ; Die Triebvermischten, 1984, ; Cain the transgressor, Moses the lawmaker (translated by Vera Mérei), 1987.