The Hands Of Children: AN INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHO-CHIROLOGYThis is Volume XVIII in a series of twenty-one in a collection on Individual Differences. Originally published in 1931, this posthumously published work provides the reader with an introduction to psych-chirology with additions by the current editor's experiments and anaylsis. With an Appendix on the Hands of the Mentally Diseased by Herta Levi. |
Contents
THE THEORETICAL FOUNDATION OF PSYCHO CHIROLOGY | 1 |
2 GENERAL REMARKS ABOUT PSYCHOCHIROLOGY | 4 |
3 THE OUTER HAND | 10 |
4 THE FINGERS | 18 |
5 THE POSITION OF THE HAND | 35 |
6 THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE RIGHT AND LEFT HANDS | 47 |
7 THE MOUNTS | 58 |
8 THE MAIN LINES IN THE PALM OF THE HAND | 66 |
SPECIMEN ANALYSES OF HANDS OF CHILDREN | 159 |
THE HANDS OF THE MENTALLY DISEASED | 167 |
NOTES ON HANDS OF SCHIZOPHRENICS | 172 |
NOTES ON HANDS OF NONSCHIZOPHRENICS | 179 |
TABLE ONE | 184 |
TABLE TWO | 185 |
POSTSCRIPT | 187 |
INDEX | 189 |
9 SUBSIDIARY LINES AND VARIOUS OTHER FEATURES OF THE INNER HAND | 91 |
10 PRACTICAL NOTES | 97 |
11 CHIROLOGY APPLIED TO THE HANDS OF CHILDREN | 106 |
FIGURES | 110 |
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PLATES | i |
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adaptability analysis artistic attitude C. G. Jung child chiro chirological chirologist collective unconscious connected conscious Consistency curved difficulties disposition Dropped position dropping hands effect emotional energies environment expression fact Fate Line finger see fig fixation Flat palms forces fourth finger function hand shows Heart Line Incapable of dropping inclined indicates inferiority feelings influences inhibitions inner hand intellectual interpretation left hand Line of Fate Line of Intuition Line of Milieu Lines of Experience little finger lower phalange main lines Melancholia middle finger milieu-fixation mind mother Mount of Jupiter Mount of Mars Mount of Venus Nails negative normal observation parents partner-relationship person phenomena PLATE Prenatal Line psyche psychological Raised position realisation reality reveals ribbed right hand ring finger Schizophrenic Female second finger sexual shape soft sphere spiritual straight strong strongly suggests talent tendency third finger Thyroid Lines traits uncon unconscious unconscious mind upper phalange vitality