Morphopsychology and Terrain Semiology
The "Morphopsychology and Terrain Semiology" course teaches you to observe the shapes of the body and face to better understand a person, their vitality and their terrain.
You will study the main models of the naturopathic tradition: morphopsychology, constitutions and temperaments, characterology, diatheses and vitalometry. Each model is presented as an observation tool and attributed to its authors.
The course ends with a practical approach for carrying out a vitality assessment and choosing a suitable cure. Throughout the chapters, it also identifies the signs that call for a referral to a health professional.
Course objectives
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- explain the concepts of vitality, vital force, constitution, temperament and diathesis;
- observe a face and identify its main morphopsychological features;
- recognize the main morphological and temperamental types;
- use the main constitutional, temperamental and diathesis assessments;
- assess a person’s vitality using vitality measurements and indicators;
- choose a cure approach suited to the vitality observed;
- recognize the signs that call for a referral to a health professional.
Teaching methods included:
- E-Learning training: an interactive, motivating, and effective learning method.
- Printable course booklets
- Access to the student centre
- Videos and virtual library.
Course Content Description
Student Guide
Teaching method and instructions
- How to use your E-learning platform
- Your documents and teaching tools
- Your PDF teaching manual
- Clinical Case Studies (CCS)
- Your study time
- Timelines and duration of the program
- Quizzes
- Evaluations
- Professional and personal status
Getting started
- Plan your work schedule
Chapter 1
Foundations of naturopathic semiology
- History of morphology
- Vitality and vital force
- Morphological disciplines
- Philosophical schools of thought
- The naturopathic assessment and its seven laws
- Biological filters
- Yin-yang bipolarity
- Constitution, temperament and diathesis
- Review of knowledge
Chapter 2
Morphopsychology I: reading the face
- The law of dilation and retraction
- Flesh and sthenia
- Frame and modelling
- The three zones of the face
- Receptors and tonicity
- Observation criteria for the frame
- Observation criteria for the eyes, nose and mouth
- Review of knowledge
Chapter 3
Morphopsychology II: the types
- Dilated, retracted and mixed predominance
- Symmetry, balance and half-faces
- Forward and backward face; small and large face
- Toned and atonic dilated types
- Lateral, frontal, bumpy and thinned retracted types
- Reactive and concentrated types
- Selective expansion types
- Blends
- Balance and the attraction of complementary types
- Review of knowledge
Chapter 4
Constitutions and temperaments
- Constitutional assessments
- Hippocrates’ temperaments
- Naturopathic temperaments
- Classifications of temperaments
- Marchesseau’s vitality scale
- Phrenological temperaments
- Neurological and endocrine temperaments
- Review of knowledge
Chapter 5
Characterology, diatheses and other assessments
- Le Senne’s characterology
- Characterological profiles
- Links between Le Senne and Hippocrates
- Ménétrier’s diatheses
- Other assessments
- Blood types
- Review of knowledge
Chapter 6
Vitalometry
- The concept of vitalometry
- Measuring vitality
- Signs of devitalization
- Vital dynamics
- Biorhythms
- Review of knowledge
Chapter 7
Cures and revitalization
- Revitalization
- Naturopathic cures
- The three major techniques
- The seven minor techniques
- Precautions for fasting and restrictive cures
- Key elements of a cure
- Review of knowledge
Chapter 8
The naturopath’s role and vitality indicators
- The role of the naturopath
- Observation forms
- Examples of vitality indicators
- Carrying out a vitality assessment: a 10-step approach
- Sample assessment form
- Review of knowledge
Answer keys
Answer keys
- Answer key for the Review of knowledge, Chapters 1 to 8
