The Varieties of Human Physique

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Subtitle: An Introduction To Constitutional Psychology

Author: W. H. Sheldon, Ph.D, M.D.

Edition Cited in The Compleat Witch
 
Publisher: Harper & Brothers
City: New York
Year: 1940
Pages: 347
Binding: Hardback
Size: 6.5″ x 9.5″
Table of Contents
(From Cited Edition; Condensed)
PREFACE… xi
 
I. INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY… 1
 
II.  THE MAIN HISTORICAL THREAD… 10

III.  DEVELOPMENT OF THE TECHNIQUE OF SOMATOTYPING… 29

IV.  HOW TO PROCEED IN SOMATOTYPING… 80

V.  SOME THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS… 108

VI.  DESCRIPTION OF THE SOMATOTYPES… 141

VII.  TOWARD A CONSTITUTIONAL PSYCHOLOGY… 216

APPENDIX 1. TABLES FOR SOMATOTYPING… 265

APPENDIX 2. NINE SOMATOTYPES OF WOMEN… 290

INDEX… 319
 

 

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Pages: 347
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Misc. Quotes
 
“THE SEVENS IN ECTOMORPHY
 
             127
117
            217
 
THE 117
 
This is the most extreme of the microsplanchnic physiques.  The trunk is excessively flat, and is relatively narrow and relatively short.  In the first region (head), we find a small, hypoplastic face, fragile features, and the moderately long, extremely slender neck.  Both face and cranium are of variable shape in the 117.  The cranium is occasionally of fairly large size, but the face is always small.  The nose is usually both slender and short.  The jaw is weak and receding.  The upper trunk usually shows a sharp, high kyphotic curving of the vertebral column, with flat upper chest and marked lack of anteroposterior depth…”



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