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    The document discusses the history of using hand analysis to understand personality and health. It mentions that as early as 3500 BC, Egyptians viewed the hand as symbolic of life and health. Ancient Greek physicians also saw the hand as an indicator of temperament. The first scientific studies linking hands to personality emerged in 1931 from Kretscher's work on body types. In 1943, Charlotte Wolff studied hand characteristics and handedness to develop a method for hand interpretation. The earliest empirical research was published in 1937 by Carmichael, Roberts, and Wessell. The hand test was created by E. Wagner in 1958 to differentiate between normal and schizophrenic patients. In 1962, Bricklin Protowski and Wagner published a monograph providing rationale

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    The document discusses the history of using hand analysis to understand personality and health. It mentions that as early as 3500 BC, Egyptians viewed the hand as symbolic of life and health. Ancient Greek physicians also saw the hand as an indicator of temperament. The first scientific studies linking hands to personality emerged in 1931 from Kretscher's work on body types. In 1943, Charlotte Wolff studied hand characteristics and handedness to develop a method for hand interpretation. The earliest empirical research was published in 1937 by Carmichael, Roberts, and Wessell. The hand test was created by E. Wagner in 1958 to differentiate between normal and schizophrenic patients. In 1962, Bricklin Protowski and Wagner published a monograph providing rationale

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    The document discusses the history of using hand analysis to understand personality and health. It mentions that as early as 3500 BC, Egyptians viewed the hand as symbolic of life and health. Ancient Greek physicians also saw the hand as an indicator of temperament. The first scientific studies linking hands to personality emerged in 1931 from Kretscher's work on body types. In 1943, Charlotte Wolff studied hand characteristics and handedness to develop a method for hand interpretation. The earliest empirical research was published in 1937 by Carmichael, Roberts, and Wessell. The hand test was created by E. Wagner in 1958 to differentiate between normal and schizophrenic patients. In 1962, Bricklin Protowski and Wagner published a monograph providing rationale

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    Hand Test History

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    The document discusses the history of using hand analysis to understand personality and health. It mentions that as early as 3500 BC, Egyptians viewed the hand as symbolic of life and health. Ancient Greek physicians also saw the hand as an indicator of temperament. The first scientific studies linking hands to personality emerged in 1931 from Kretscher's work on body types. In 1943, Charlotte Wolff studied hand characteristics and handedness to develop a method for hand interpretation. The earliest empirical research was published in 1937 by Carmichael, Roberts, and Wessell. The hand test was created by E. Wagner in 1958 to differentiate between normal and schizophrenic patients. In 1962, Bricklin Protowski and Wagner published a monograph providing rationale

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    History

     About 3500 B.C... Egyptians and other


    cultures employed the hand as a
    symbol of life, “ka” the vital principle.

     Philosophers and physicians of


    antiquity were interested in the hand
    as diagnostic” aid in assessing a
    person’s “temperament.”
     The first scientific attempts in relating
    the hand to personality developed
    out of the study of the body types by
    Kretscher in 1931

     Charlotte Wolff (1943) studied certain


    characteristic of the hand and
    handedness, derived a practical method
    of the hand interpretation based on the
    studied characteristic
     The first empirical research
    was a report by
    Carmichael, Roberts and
    Wessell (1937)

     The hand test was


    originated by E. Wagner in
    1958
     Used to differentiate
    normal from schizophrenic

     In 1962 Bricklin Protowski


    and Wagner publish a
    monograph with an initial
    rationale and scoring for
    the hand test

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