The typologies of Kretschmer and Sheldon

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The Typologies of Kretschmer and Sheldon

Ernst Kretschmer
born Oct. 8, 1888, Wüstenrot, Ger.
died Feb. 8, 1964, Tübingen, W.Ger.

German psychiatrist who attempted to correlate body build and physical constitution with personality characteristics and mental illness.

http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9046234
Ernst Kretschmer
from Ernst Kretschmer's Physique and Character, "The Theory of Temperaments"
THE TEMPERAMENTS:
http://www.ptypes.com/temperaments.html#kretschmer
Its worth to mention that Kretschmer had, especially through his work in a clinic, many contacts to degenerated schizoid forms, which might have influenced his view too. While he has admiration for the high function variants of schizothymes, he still prefers zyklothymes personally because of their warmness and in indirect discussions with Günther (and Nordicism) he defended the idea of mixtures being more productive in his later work.
In comparison with Sheldon Kretschmer's Schizothymic personality would include both more than the Jung Introvert or Sheldon Cerebrotonic, though Kretschmer later invented the viscoes temperament as third category, which has a strong perseveration and is more anaesthetic, even dull associated with the athletic-mesomorphic body build. However, thats still rather close to his schizothymic category, as is the Somatotonic, depending on the exact emphasis still rather schizothymic, really an independent peak or even rather a very active zyklothymic (hypomanic) from my point of view.
Other threads dealing with that subject:
Older thread about Kretschmer and Sheldon on Skadi:
http://forum.skadi.net/showthread.php?t=8778
Links for Sheldon for which is more in English on the www obviously:
http://changingminds.org/explanation...ersonality.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatotype
http://www.innerexplorations.com/catpsy/t1c4.htm