Temperamenten van hippocrates biography

Proto-psychological theory

This article is about the "four humours" in Greco-Roman medicine, a specific form of the more universal proto-medical concept of humourism.

For the ballet by Paul Hindemith and George Balanchine, see The Four Temperaments. For the symphony by Carl Nielsen, see Symphony No. 2 (Nielsen).

The four temperament theory is a proto-psychological theory which suggests that there are four fundamental personality types: sanguine, choleric, melancholic, and phlegmatic.^[2][3] Most formulations include the possibility of mixtures among the types where an individual's personality types overlap and they share two or more temperaments.

Greek physician Hippocrates (c.

Temperamenten van hippocrates biography wikipedia

460 – c. 370 BC) described the four temperaments as part of the ancient medical concept of humourism, that four bodily fluids affect human personality traits and behaviours. Modern medical science does not define a fixed relationship between internal secre