{"id":78015,"date":"2025-12-11T21:50:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/ernst-kretschmer-1888-1964\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T21:50:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T21:50:35","slug":"ernst-kretschmer-1888-1964","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/ernst-kretschmer-1888-1964\/","title":{"rendered":"Ernst Kretschmer (1888\u20131964)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>German psychiatrist and psychologist, known as the creator of a typology of temperaments based on body type. He developed a classification of types of human constitution into athletic, asthenic and pycnic, linking physical characteristics with character traits and predisposition to mental disorders. His central work was the book &#8220;Body Structure and Character&#8221; (1921). Kretschmer was also engaged in research in the field of psychotherapy, child psychopathology, and developed hypnosis techniques. He was a professor and director of a clinic at the universities of Marburg and T\u00fcbingen, where he created an experimental psychological laboratory for the study of mental and physiological characteristics of temperaments. Kretschmer made a significant contribution to understanding the relationship between the biological and psychological aspects of personality and mental illness.     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German psychiatrist and psychologist, known as the creator of a typology of temperaments based on body type. He developed a classification of types of human constitution into athletic, asthenic and pycnic, linking physical characteristics with character traits and predisposition to mental disorders. His central work was the book &#8220;Body Structure and Character&#8221; (1921). Kretschmer was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[300],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5-1-distinguished-psychologists-and-their-contribution-to-the-development-of-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}