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The Four Temperaments: A Rediscovery of the Ancient Way of Understanding Health and Character By Randy Rolfe ( Da Capo Press )
Release Date: 2002-09-04
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The system of the four temperaments, or humors—melancholic, choleric, sanguine, and phlegmatic—has been used to analyze personality and health for over two thousand years, since the philosophical insights of Aristotle and the healing arts of Hippocrates. It has been the basis of Western medicine and character portraits ever since. Now The Four Temperaments offers an introduction and overview of this ancient knowledge, providing readers a clear picture of all the humors have to offer. Randy Rolfe shows how to identify one's own temperament and how to dramatically improve health, relationships, career, and happiness with a basic understanding of the four temperaments. Since the author has been studying, applying, and teaching the wisdom of the temperaments for over thirty years, she is able to link these four ancient personality and health types with the findings of modern medical researchers. She guides readers to finding the proper balance between temperaments and using their strengths to overcome their vulnerabilities. Illustrations are included.
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Fun, Educational and Practical ( bdjacques )
This wonderful book integrates a lot of source material into an easy to read and practical compendium of Four Temperament information. I have made use of this material and will continue to explore how it can help people in my practice. For those interested in Western Holistic Medicine, this is a must have.
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The 4 Temperments: Creative, Well-organized & Practical ( heschel101 )
In "The Four Temperments" Randy Rolfe does an excellent job of integrating ancient wisdom with modern theory as it relates to the 4 classic humors. Using questionairres and numerous easy to understand charts she guides the reader through a comprehensive tour of the 4 temperaments. She writes very clearly, with excellent knowledge of her subject and a full grasp of the 4 temperaments (choleric, melancholic, sanguine and phlegmatic).
The topic for most people would be considered a difficult, complicated and perhaps a controversial subject and yet the author manages in a concise and personal style to integrate practical ways of applying solutions to life's problems with each of the 4 different temperaments. She clearly understands and explains her subject in a way which can easily be applied to one's everyday life in the areas of career, relationships, emotions, personality style, health, nutrition and even weather patterns. People will find great value in reading this creative and well-organized book.
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