a diagnostic test developed by the Hungarian physician and psychologist Léopold Szondi in the 1930s. In the process of clinical work, he discovered a certain regularity that governs the selectivity of a person in communication with others. Assuming that unconscious attraction to people like himself has a genetic condition, and based on the psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud, Szondi developed the concept of “fate analysis”, and the extensive data of clinical and genetic studies formed the basis of the “test of eight instincts”.
The method of testing consists in the fact that a person is asked to choose the most and least attractive portraits of different men and women. Each portrait reflects in the most acute form the manifestation of one of the eight basic human instincts and reveals a particular problem or pathology of the examined. It allows you to find both social and antisocial, both healthy and pathological tendencies of the subjects. Since the structure of drives, which is the basis of the method, is universal, the Szondi test is suitable for people of any nationality and social class.
At present, the Szondi test is used quite rarely in clinical practice, and is rather of historical significance.