What does your face reveal about your personality?
Since Antiquity, attentive observers have tried to find links between a person's face and their character. Physiognomy (ancestor of morphopsychology) was founded on temperaments and physiognomy.
Many characterology treatises were influenced by these notions, which intrigued Aristotle, Hippocrates, and H. de Balzac until the 1950s. These methods were limited to a behavioural typology and established an association between a face feature and a character attribute without a real overall vision or coherence.
The first dynamic principles allowing psychological interpretation of facial features were established by Nantes psychiatrist Louis Corman (1901-1995) through a scientific correlation between maxillofacial anatomy and psychology. Morphopsychology began.
The first law is based on the fundamental respiratory system of dilation-retraction, which helps each living thing open and expand in a favourable environment or close and retract in a hostile one.
Since we now know that the cerebral hemispheres, which make up the brain, and the craniofacial framework and most facial muscles have the same embryonic origin, the face, psyche, and environment have always interacted.
Different forces and movements affect our face at different levels, timeframes, and degrees based on our life history and experiences.
Facial features are merely data that must be analysed to determine dominant ones. Thus, the morphopsychologist uses a three-stage process based on a complicated systemic examination of observed elements.
In morphopsychology, we first examine the framework, which indicates our energy, then the receptors (the eyes, nose, and mouth), which are our communication tools, and finally the shape, which indicates our sociability.
Volume (dilation and retraction), profile (forth and backward or verticalizes), and front (tonic and rising, descending and sluggish) are observed.
Expanded frameworks are wide, solid, and sometimes square. The energetic individual requires space and social connections.
Retracted frames are thinner, longer, and lighter. The guy is more aware of his surroundings and values quality above quantity. She must feel safe at home before acting. No behavioural style is superior. Each person functions and has varied potential.
In this movement study, profile observation is crucial for diagnosis. The face moving in front of the ears indicates the need to explore, move, and progress. The person likes new things. Verticalization will emphasise management, organisation, and control.
A floor that is larger than others displays our motivation priorities.
If it's the upper floor, concepts are easy to grasp while large tasks need imagination, reflection, and synthesis.
If the middle floor prevails, the person enjoys helping others and thrives in a social vocation. She always considers people.
If the lowest level is strong, the person is pragmatic and successful. They are hands-on learners. Eyes, nose, and mouth receptors delay or reinforce the propensity at all levels.
Morphopsychology is a universal self- and other-understanding tool. Education, study level, ethnicity, culture, and location are irrelevant.
It helps identify physical, emotional, and intellectual resources, potential, and development trajectories (sometimes unexpectedly). It helps uncover opportunities for improvement at work and at home.