page_title: Ernst Kretschmer
section_title: Asthenic type
hierarchical_section_title: Ernst Kretschmer / Scientific contribution / Types of physique / Asthenic type
caption_attribution_description: English: Asthenic type. Frontal. Schizoid psychopath (schizoid personality disorder). Русский: Астенический тип. Фронтальный снимок Шизоидный психопат (шизоидное расстройство личности).
context_page_description: Ernst Kretschmer was a German psychiatrist who researched the human constitution and established a typology.
context_section_description: The essential characteristic of the asthenic type, in Kretschmer's words, "a deficiency in thickness combined with an average unlessened length". The deficiency is present in all parts of body: muscle, bone, neck, face, trunk, extremities, and in all the tissues skin. The average weight as well as the other body measurements are below the general value for males.
  We have, consequently, in the clearest cases a lean narrowly-built man: with narrow shoulders, with thin muscles, delicately boned hands, with a narrow, long, flat chest, on which we can usually see the ribs.
  The asthenic female are not only thin, but also of very small height. In their general appearance they're the same as asthenic men.
caption: Asthenic type. A frontal portrait. Schizoid psychopath (schizoid personality disorder).
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