Max Lüscher
Max Lüscher (born September 9, 1923 in Basel ; † February 2, 2017 in Lucerne ) was a Swiss psychologist and philosopher . In 1947 he published the Lüscher color test . In addition to research , teaching and therapy in Basel, Lüscher worked for international companies in color consulting, among other things . 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 "Color as a psychodiagnostic aid". In the course of his work as a psychotherapist in Basel, Lüscher developed his test for assessing (or at least assessing) the human personality using certain color cards, the "Lüscher test". From 1961 to 1965 he took on teaching activities and professorships in Basel and Berlin . Max Lüscher last lived in Lucerne, where he headed his "Institute for Medical Psychodiagnostics". The main area of his research was the effect of colors on people with regard to psychosocial aspects as well as color psychology and advice for industry and individual companies. Lüscher became internationally known through guest lectures and seminars.
Lüscher was married to the artist Ingeborg Lüscher from 1959 to 1967 .
System of emotions
In 2008, as a continuation of his reflections on color and psyche, Max Lüscher published a system of logical categories of regulatory psychology to determine emotional elements . These elements it defined for them ascribed characteristics, the legality of the categorical psycho logic he called the Periodic System of emotions . He intended a logical system of regulation psychology to define and understand emotions , as a system for classifying unconscious motivations and behaviors. According to his system, it should be possible to define the entire experience of a person with six categorical understanding 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. According to Lüscher , the emotional structures are elements that can be logically put together. According to Lüscher, there are differentiated and defined personality structures based on 24 aspects that are generally known from daily experience.
Publications
- Max Lüscher: The Lüscher test. Personality assessment through color choice . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1985, ISBN 3-498-03812-5
- Max Lüscher: The law of harmony in us , Ullstein, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-548-36656-2
- Max Lüscher: Der Vier-Farben-Mensch , Ullstein, 2005, ISBN 3-548-36797-6
Web links
- Publications by and about Max Lüscher in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
- Literature by and about Max Lüscher in the catalog of the German National Library
- Lüscher's periodic system of emotions (2008)
- Introduction to Psychology . ( MP3 ; 4.37 MB) Spoken by Prof. Dr. Max Lüscher
- WDR report on Max Lüscher's 85th birthday
- Obituary on luscher-color.ch
Individual evidence
- ↑ Max Lüscher: The periodic system of emotions . (PDF file; 70 kB) In: Holistic medicine . 20 (6), Switzerland 2008, pp. 343–344
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lüscher, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss psychologist and philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 9, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Basel |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd February 2017 |
| Place of death | Lucerne |