Martin Achtnich

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Martin Achtnich (born May 20, 1918 in Winterthur , Switzerland ; † July 3, 1996 there ) was a Swiss psychologist and educator and student of Leopold Szondi .

biography

Martin Achtnich was the youngest son of a family of manufacturers who owned embroidery. He has a university degree in philosophy, education and psychology. At the same time, he also completed training at the Institute for Applied Psychology (IAP) in Zurich , where he deepened his knowledge of career advice and information, occupational diseases , characterology , depth psychology , clinical psychology , Rorschach diagnostics, graphology and psychological counseling . He wrote a doctoral thesis on "Norm values ​​of the Kraepelin work curve for 10 to 15-year-old boys and girls and their significance for recording difficult-to-educate children".

In 1946, while studying at the IAP, he met Leopold Szondi , a Hungarian psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who had sought refuge in Switzerland during World War II . Szondi taught about his test ( Szondi test ) and about fate analysis. With three other students, Achtnich was part of the first study group coordinated by Szondi.

In 1947, Achtnich began working as a professional consultant and took on an average of 450 young people per year. He remained loyal to this activity, which he carried out with great devotion throughout his life. From 1949 to 1960 he headed the Center for Careers Advice in Winterthur. In this position he developed projects of a large social scope in the field of career information.

In 1961 he began working as a professional career counselor in a private practice. There he treated people who had a professional and personal crisis or were confronted with learning and work disorders. He had acquired the theoretical basis of his work in the “Working Group on Fate Analysis and Experimental Research on Pulse” together with Leopold Szondi for three years. He was a member of the "Swiss Society for Fate Analysis Therapy" and the "Swiss Society of Psychotherapists for Children and Adolescents".

Achtnich later began working on the BBT - job profile test . The impetus was provided by Dr. Hansjörg Ringger with the idea of designing a test to clarify the professional inclination profile, taking into account the factors of the fate analysis . Following the guidance of Szondi, it was decided to create a test based on photos, as these have a greater memory power than words. The association technique developed by Freud was used to standardize the test . It took almost 20 years for the final test to be completed after five test variations and multiple studies and research.

BBT was widely accepted in Switzerland and introduced in various European countries in the mid-1980s, and was initially translated into French in Belgium in 1987. Since then, this test has been used in Belgium , France , Israel and Poland , among others .

Publications

  • Freedom of will and coercion in career counseling for the work-shy. Article in "Berufsberatung und Berufsbildung", Zurich, Oct. 1951.
  • Why it is worth calling in the career advisor. Article in "Schweizer Spiegel", Zurich, October 1952.
  • Basic probability calculations for the Szondi test. Szondiana I, Verlag Hans Huber Bern, 1953.
  • Career choice and career advice for special class students. Article in "Schweiz. Erziehungsrundschau", Oct./Nov. 1955.
  • Job profile choice test based on Szondi's theory. Report on the 3rd Colloquium of the International Research Association for Destiny Psychology, Aug 13-15, 1963. Szondiana VI, Huber Verlag, Bern.
  • Autorasser in the Szonditest. Report on the 4th colloquium of the boarding school. Research Association for Destiny Psychology, 23-27 Aug 1966. Szondiana VII, Huber Verlag, Bern.
  • Fate-analytically oriented career counseling based on the job profile choice test. A contribution to the psychology of career choice, career change and career prognosis. Report on the 5th colloquium of the boarding school. Research Association for Destiny Psychology, Louvain-Lions 31 Aug. - 3 Sept. 1969. Szondiana VIII, 1971, Hans Huber, Bern. L'Analyse du Destin, Nauwelaerts, Louvai, 1971.
  • The job profile test - projective procedure to clarify job inclination. Bern, Stuttgart, Vienna: Verlag Hans Huber, 1979.
  • Achtnich, M. & Halder, K. Job profile test and graphology in job and career counseling. Szondiana 5th year 1985, issue 2. Editing: Szondi Institute Foundation, Krähbülstrasse 3º, Zurich.
  • Characterology of gymnastics and sports teachers. Szondiana 6th year 1986, nº 1.
  • Le BBT, Test de Photos de Professions. Editest, Bruxelles, 1987.
  • The job profile test. Its application in occupational and career guidance - an introduction. Hans Huber, Bern, 1987.
  • Introduction au Test de Photos de Professions. La Revue de Psychologie Appliquée, nº 4, Paris, 1988.
  • Le BBT dans L'orientation Professional. Colloque d´Orientation Professionelle, Université Catholique de Louvain-La-Neuve, 2. – 3. June 1988.
  • BBT - Teste de Fotos de Profissões. São Paulo: Cetepp, 1991.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History of the Achtnich knitting factory. winterthur-glossary, accessed on February 22, 2019 .
  2. ↑ M.Achtnich: Norm values ​​of the Kraepelin work curve for 10 to 15 year old boys and girls and their significance for the recording of difficult to educate children (=  dissertation, Philosophical Faculty I ). Fritz Frei book printer, Horgen-Zurich 1946.
  3. ^ A b Marie-Louise Ries: In memory of the well-known career advisor Martin Achtnich. Der Landbote, Winterthur 1996.
  4. ↑ Martin Achtnich: BBT - job profile test. Projective procedure to clarify occupational inclination . Hans Huber, Bern 1979, ISBN 3-456-80657-4 .
personal data
SURNAME Achtnich, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Winterthur , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH 3rd July 1996
Place of death Winterthur , Switzerland