Cuatro temperamentos de hippocrates biography

The concept of four temperaments and humors is an ancient and alternative approach to personality theory by Hippocrates. He proposed an imbalance of bodily fluids (i.e. black bile, yellow bile, phlegm, blood) results in extreme temperaments.

The cure would be to let out excess fluids through surgical cuts—practices which have since been fully abandoned. Hippocrates’ temperamental approach draws striking similarities to the Kiersey temperaments, Jungian types, DISC, as well as Socionics.

Cuatro temperamentos de hippocrates biography pdf

The four temperaments had a significant impact on Western thought and influenced various fields, including medicine, psychology, and literature. They were prevalent during the Middle Ages and Renaissance. They also played a role in early personality theories, such as Carl Jung‘s psychological types.

x-axis (vertical): Introversion – Extraversion scale

y-axis (horizontal): Thinking – Feeling scale

A 2 x 2 table of Hippocrates’ four (4) temperaments: