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| Four Temperaments is a theory of psychology that stems from the ancient medical concept of humorism.
It may have ancient origins, but it was the Greek physician Hippocrates (460-370 BC) who developed it into a medical theory. He believed certain human moods, emotions and behaviors were caused by body fluids (called "humors"): blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm. Next, Galen (AD 131-200) developed the first typology of temperament and searched for physiological reasons for different behaviors in humans. In The Canon of Medicine, Avicenna (980-1037 AD) then extended the theory of temperaments to encompass "emotional aspects, mental capacity, moral attitudes, self-awareness, movements and dreams." Nicholas Culpeper (1616–1654) disregarded the idea of fluids as defining human behavior, and Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925), Alfred Adler (1879–1937), Erich Adickes (1866–1925), Eduard Spranger (1914), Ernst Kretschmer (1920), and Erich Fromm (1947) all theorized on the four temperaments (with different names) and greatly shaped our modern theories of temperament. Hans Eysenck (1916–1997) was one of the first psychologists to analyze personality differences using a psycho-statistical method (factor analysis), and his research led him to believe that temperament is biologically based. The four humors of Hippocratic medicine were black bile (gr. melan chole), yellow bile (gr. chole), phlegm (gr. phlegma), and blood (lat. sanguis). When a patient was suffering from a surplus or imbalance of one fluid, then his or her personality and physical health would be affected. This theory was closely related to the theory of the four elements: earth, fire, water and air; earth predominantly present in the black bile, fire in the yellow bile, water in the phlegm, and all four elements present in the blood. Four elements needed for life: blood, body heat, body, breath Humor- Season- Element- Organ- Qualities- Ancient name- Modern- Ancient characteristics: Blood, spring, air, liver, warm & moist, Sanguine, Artisan- courageous, hopeful, amorous Yellow bile, summer, fire, gall bladder, warm & dry, Choleric, Idealist- easily angered, bad tempered Black bile, autumn, earth, spleen, cold & dry, Melancholic, Guardian- despondent, sleepless, irritable Phlegm, winter, water, brain/lungs, cold & moist, Phlegmatic, Rational- calm, unemotional The Sanguine temperament personality is fairly extroverted. A person who is Choleric is a do-er. A person who is a thoughtful ponderer has a Melancholic disposition. Phlegmatics tend to be self-content and kind. ****Asian Religions  Yin and Yang: used to describe how polar opposites are interconnected and interdependent in the natural world, and how they give rise to each other in turn. Opposites thus only exist in relation to each other. The concept lies at the origins of many branches of classical Chinese science and philosophy. Many natural dualities—e.g. dark and light, female and male, low and high, cold and hot, water and fire, air and earth— are thought of as manifestations of yin and yang (respectively). Yin yang are not opposing forces (dualities), but complementary opposites, unseen (hidden, feminine) and seen (manifest, masculine), that interact within a greater whole, as part of a dynamic system. Everything has both yin and yang aspects as light cannot exist without darkness and vice-versa.
 Swastika in Tibet, flanked by sun and moon, from the Iron Age (1300 BC – 600 BC).
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