Max Lüscher

Max Lüscher ( born September 9, 1923 in Basel ) is a Swiss psychologist and philosopher. He published in 1947 the Lüscher color test. In addition to research, teaching and therapy in Basel, Lüscher has been working for international companies, among others, in the color consultation. His book The Lüscher Test has been translated into more than 30 languages.

Life

Max Lüscher graduated from the Swiss Matura in 1944 and studied philosophy and psychology and received his doctorate with a thesis on " The color as diagnostic tool in psychology ." Lüscher developed in the course of his work as a psychotherapist in Basel his test to assess (or at least estimate ) of human personality based on specific color cards, the " Lüscher test". From 1961 to 1965 he took teaching positions and professorships in Basel and Berlin. Today Max Lüscher lives in Lucerne, where he runs his " Institute for Medical Psychodiagnostics ". The main area of his research is the effect of color on people in terms of psycho-social aspects as well as the color psychology and counseling for industry and individual companies. Lüscher is known through guest lectures and seminars internationally.

Lüscher was married from 1959 to 1967 with the artist Ingeborg Lüscher.

System of emotions

Continuing his reflections on color and Psyche Max Lüscher in 2008 published a system of logical categories of regulatory psycho logic to determine emotional elements. He has defined for them properties ascribed to these elements, the legality of the categorical psycho logic he called Periodic System of emotions. He proposed a logical system of regulatory psycho logic to define and understand the emotions, as a system for classification of unconscious motivations and behaviors. According to his system, it should be possible to define the entire experience of a man with six categorical mind - terms. This experience can be the experience of a shape, a color, a smell, a facial expression of a counterpart, an architecture, or any other tangible object. The emotional structures are by Lüscher elements which can be joined together logically. After Lüscher differentiated and defined personality structures are therefore not available after 24 aspects, which are well known from daily experience.

Publications

• Max Lüscher: The Lüscher test. Personality assessment by color choice. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1985, ISBN 3-498-03812-5
• Max Lüscher: The Harmony law within us, Ullsteinhaus, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-548-36656-2
• Max Lüscher: The four-color man, Ullsteinhaus, 2005, ISBN 3-548-36797-6