Biotypology

The biotypology is a generic name given to various investigations seeking to highlight main categories ready to gather human beings presenting of the biological characteristics common, correlated to features of Personnalité precise. It is to some extent a Typologie modernized starting from the hippocratic concept of “Tempérament” (cf Paul Carton).

One can attach to this approach those of the physiognomists whose Boven was made the historian. One of the principal physiognomists is undoubtedly Lavater ( physiognomic Essais , 1772) and later Hartenberg ( Physionomie and character , Alcan, 1908). A French representative of this current is Louis Corman, doctor who has to try to pose the bases of the Morphopsychologie.

Jaspers and Kretschmer adopted a positive but careful attitude with regard to the Corrélation S between psychological or psychopathological standard body Structure and .

The first biotypologists are undoubtedly Italian such Achille de Giovanni then Pende which opposes the individuals who privilege the Anabolisme compared to those at which dominates the Catabolisme. Violated in its turn, distinguishes the average normotype, the brachytype more collected and the longitype, more lengthened. French Sigaud will prefer to describe functional types: the muscular one, the respiratory one, the digestive one and the cerebral one.

American Sheldon tried to establish solids bases Statistique S with the biotypologic approach.

See too

• Somatotype