Pathology of Drives. A Guide to Profiling

Look into people’s faces. Most likely, their frozen expressions will seem repulsive to you, but you will still have to choose what evokes the least displeasure… Why? It is claimed that this choice may determine your life scenario: who you will love, what work you will prefer, and whom you will befriend.

In every person, there is a dark, potentially criminal side hidden away. Everyone is to some extent influenced by archetypes and symbols imposed by society. One of the first to speak about this was Carl Gustav Jung, the well-known student of Z. Freud. And Leopold Szondi proposed a way to identify leading archetypes and patterns of behavior not through years of psychoanalysis, but with a simple test that takes only five minutes.

Renowned psychiatrist Leopold Szondi developed an unusual method that became one of the sources of criminal profiling: a person was asked to choose, from among unpleasant, unattractive faces, those that seem the least disgusting. Drawing on Jung’s ideas and his own research, Szondi formulated the concept of fate-analysis, which makes it possible not only to examine the past, but also to predict future difficulties with fair accuracy. His method, as was believed, helped recognize potential sadists, murderers, and robbers in a crowd long before their first crime.

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