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Max Lüscher, born in 1923, early showed his talent when he,  back in 1939 at the age of 16, found a method to describe the mental state by studying tensions of individual facial muscles. 

People, their character, the way they worked and coped in the outside world was his main interest already at school age. He found that people characterized themselves by their dreams, through their manner of writing, by the way of  behaving, etc. When he discovered that the colors in an excellent manner offered a shortcut to human nature, colors became his primary working tool.

Through the chemical company of Ciba in his native town of Basel, he was able to study the relationship between color and human behavior. He found out that the colors had almost the same emotional value for everyone, and accounted for the same thought patterns worldwide. It was only individual human differences that made the color choices differ.

In his doctoral thesis on the relationship between character and color, he presented his theory in 1947 at the First World Congress of psychology after World War II. As a result, he was invited to teach at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1949 and 1950.

1952 he was contracted as an adviser at Germany's largest newspaper group in Hamburg, and was also hired as an adviser by the German top industry.
He was involved as a lecturer and teacher at universities worldwide. He has held a professorship in philosophy at Basel and in psychology at Amsterdam and during much of his career he has worked as a psychotherapist.

He has described his theory of human regulation psychology  in the book "The Law of Harmony within us." This law of harmony says that we always try to maintain our mental balance. The colors show how we work in doing this. 

This regulation psychology describes in an excellent manner the multi-dimensional person. It tells about different ways of giving and taking, how we remain constant and how we change and how we create unity and diversity. 

No "typology" has ever been so developed, so elucidated and distinct and so well verified. Therein lies its strength. Lüschers Color-Diagnostic (Color Test) is used worldwide. It is used in Sweden  from 2007 in Falkenberg, Gothenburg and Stockholm.

Max Lüscher is still working. When we went to see him in November 2006, he was just going to hold a seminar in French and Italian (the latter language he learned at age 70). He is also a true philanthropist, you feel it when you're with him.