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What does your workspace say about you? The most revealing clues arent on your desk or on your computer. Rather, theyre those paperclips in your bin the ones youve fiddled with, probably without even realising it.

When psychiatrist Mario Gmür started scrutinising paperclips bent by his patients, he found that they actually reveal multitudes about the creatorscharacter, quirks and hidden desires. Are you an optimist? A pushover? A Lothario? A bully?

After studying the links between paperclip shapes and distinct character types, Gmür has created adelightful collection of quizzesand psychological profiles that allow readers to discover their innermost truths using these miniature metallic sculptures.

Part Rorschach test and parthumorous horoscope,The Paperclip Testoffers anamusing yet astonishingly insightfulpersonality gauge for anyone who has ever bent a paperclip without thinking about what secrets that tiny shape might hold.

Mario Gmür, born 1945, is a well-known and acclaimed Swiss psychiatrist, psychotherapist and psychoanalyst. He has written and published many scholarly texts, a book with short stories and several non-fiction titles. WithThe Paperclip Testhe publishes the first worldwide analysis of human paperclip-bending behaviour. Mario Gmür lives and works in Zurich.