Kretschmer’s statement regarding the relationship between body types and psychiatric disorders was supported by empirical data. On the basis of 8,099 individual cases the following findings emerged: among schizophrenics 50.3% areleptosomatics, 64% of manic-depressive individuals are pyknics, and epileptics aremostly found among athletics (28.9%) and dysplastics (29.5%), as presented in Figure 1.6. The dysplastic type comprises all kinds of departures from the normal physique (Kretschmer, 1944).
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