Mone of us are not quite what we seem.
Dr Max Lüscher, born 1923 in Switzerland, is the Swiss psychotherapist who developed the Luscher Color Test to test moods, feelings and attitudes:
Colorquiz or
The Luscher Color Test
Luscher, in his book The 4-Color Person, describes what we may be like, if we are not happy and balanced.
He describes the following types of people:
1. The Good Natured Angel
Good Natured Angels do 'good deeds'.
They expect their victims to enslave themselves in eternal gratitude and devotion.
Good Natured Angels often have another side to them.
Good Natured Angels can be Discontented Devils.
Discontented Devils have secret self doubts.
They put aside their own need for intimacy.
Discontented Devils can be agitated, irritable, over-critical, self-pitying, easily exausted loners.
Dissatisfied Devils do not know how to achieve relaxed closeness.
This can be because of a disturbance in their relationships with their mothers.
Dissatisfied Devils don't have the solid foundations of trust and devotion which can ultimately outlast all sensitivities and conflicts.
They seem incapable of being content with their existing partner.
The Good Natured Angels who are Discontented Devils need to learn to avoid exaggerated self-sacrifice if they want to find contentment.
The dissatisfied devil needs to learn about relaxed closeness, moderation, and contentment
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2. The Conceited Peacock
The conceited peacock tends to be bossy, stubborn and overrating.
Beneath the arrogance lies stupidity.
Conceited peacocks may suffer from impotence or frigidity.
Sex functions as a means of dominating their mates.
They think they are very conscientious, but often they don't do anything.
The other side to the Conceited Peacock is the mocking Agile Snake.
Agile Snakes have secret self doubts.
They have an inferiority complex.
The Agile Snake may take a lover, in order to be more independent of their wife/husband.
Or because they find their existing partner is not absolutely perfect.
Secretly they yearn for tender and affectionate togetherness.
But they don't want to be dependent on anyone.
The Agile Snakes inferiority complex will disappear as they become more noble and fair.
3. The Pompous Showoff
The pompous showoff likes the idea of large houses, large cars, and large armies.
They like to impress others.
They will choose their partners for social reasons, to impress society.
They judge a relationship by its market value.
When things go wrong, the pompous showoff becomes a Tormented Martyr.
Tormented martyrs swim in self-pity.
They turn every joy into a duty.
They enjoy being tragic heroes.
Instead of using their abilities, and increasing their self-confidence, they founder in passivity.
When the pompous showoff has some REAL achievements, unrelated to impressing the herd, then they will gain genuine self confidence and not need to be pompous and boasting.
To gain self-confidence, the martyr must stop being passive and instead be ready for peaceful achievement and peaceful challenge.
4. The Expectant Visionary
Expectant visionaries defend themselves against reality by reinterpreting reality.
They are romantics and approach a new mate full of enthusiasm.
However the mate becomes less attractive sexually once he/she becomes a familiar reality for them.
Just when genuine love ought to develop, visionaries lose interest in their mate and look for something new.
Visionaries enjoy travel, in the hope of finding new illusions.
They live for the future, or the past, but cannot live in the present.
They are wishful thinkers.
When Expectant Visionaries become disillusioned, they become
Armoured Knights.
The armoured knight supports the military.
The armoured knight seeks safety and security once they have taken a lot of disappointments.
They are filled with distrust. They may be paranoid.
They require order.
They may take up a creed which supports crusades, inquisitions and wars.
They may distrust their mates and be filled with jealousy.
The armoured knight needs to become less pedantic and less compulsive.
The visionaries will lose their restlessness by being more realistic and developing themselves in a happy, free and light-hearted manner.
5. The Balanced Type is:
A. Noble, charitable, flexible, self respecting and fair.
B. Moderate, peace-loving and content.
C. Self confident as a result of his/her achievements.
D. Happy, light-hearted and independent as a result of self development and not clinging to worldly goods.
Oliver James
According to someone who worked in a psychiatric hospital:
"Patients had 'events' mostly on days when visited by... 'loving, supportive families'.
"One girl in her twenties, who was before that time a school teacher, climbed the wall when she was told her mother was coming to visit her that day.
"Climbing the wall is an understatement, she became inhuman - not a pretty sight."
Comment by a member of the public on The Genes Don't Fit, by Oliver James, 16/10/2010, New Statesman (
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1. Psychologist Oliver James has analysed the behaviour of George W Bush
"Barbara Bush is described by her closest intimates as prone to 'withering stares' and 'sharply crystalline' retorts.
"She is also extremely tough.
"When he was seven, Bush's younger sister, Robin, died of leukaemia and several independent witnesses say he was very upset by this loss.
"Barbara claims its effect was exaggerated but nobody could accuse her of overreacting: the day after the funeral, she and her husband were on the golf course."
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