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This English-language edition combines The Zulliger group test, published in German in 1948 and re-edited in 1959 and The Zulliger individual test, published in 1954 and 1962 respectively. The group test, originally designed for the Swiss Army psychological service for screening purposes, occupies a comparatively small space in this book.
Hans Zulliger, a Swiss schoolteacher and member of the Swiss Psychoanalytic Society, who died in 1965, was according to the Editor the first to introduce psychoanalysis into schoolteaching. He was also one of the first child analysts on the Continent. Besides being a student and friend of Hermann Rorschach's he not only developed the latter's form-interpretation test, but also designed his own diagnostic tool.
The Zulliger test is similar to the Rorschach in administration, scoring and interpretation, but unlike Rorschach's ten inkblots consists of three cards only. Although Zulliger, in general, refrains from making exaggerated claims for his own test, he states (p. ) that the test is extremely sensitive and brings to light facts that (sometimes) are merely ‘hinted at’ in the Rorschach (brackets and inverted commas those of the author's).
In fact, one cannot help being impressed by the evaluation of the case material which is presented in abundance; particularly with epileptics and juvenile thieves Zulliger seems to show a high degree of empathy. However, the application of psychoanalytic principles