Morphopsychology seeks to study the psychology of a person from his face. Its practitioners seek to deduce its history, character traits, or disorders that can disturb the person. However, this method is not based on any scientific study and its practitioners have no medically recognized training. 

Morphopsychology is the study of the psychology of a person, in the sense of his character, by the careful study of his face: features, shape and characteristics.

Its practitioners believe that by analyzing the shapes of the faces, such as the skull, lips, eyes, lengthening of the nose, we can deduce a lot of information. We are not talking about “facial expressions”, signs of the face, but rather “the face at rest”.

Here is what morphopsychology can improve:

• Know yourself better, understand how others perceive us
• Better understand others and their way of thinking
• Facilities for negotiations in everyday life (haggle, sell, convince someone …)
• A better way to communicate in general.

As we can see in this list, the most honest morphosychology allows you to get to know yourself and feel better about yourself.

What is a pseudo-science?

A pseudo-science designates a practice which provides scientific advice, here medicine, without having the slightest consideration for the scientific method.

This does not mean that science is not interested in it and that its practitioners are “in the truth when no one believes it”. A pseudo-science is a practice that has been scientifically tested without any results.

In medicine, a pseudo-science is distinguished by its desire to treat its patients rather than recognize the ineffectiveness of its care.

Dangerous when it replaces medical treatment

Where morphopsychology becomes dangerous, for the health of patients, is when it recommends ineffective care for incurable or fatal diseases, such as cancers, tumors, multiple sclerosis.

Indeed, there is of course no risk in practicing or consulting morphopsychology “on a personal basis”. Even without having proven its effectiveness, morphopsychology presents no problem if it is satisfied with psychological advice for patients, apart from the sometimes high costs of consultations (not reimbursed).

However, many morphopsychologists claim to treat diseases such as cancer or multiple sclerosis. To date no case of cure of these serious diseases could be attributed to morphopsychology. It is therefore absolutely necessary to be aware that, even if the practice of morphopsychology in parallel is not a problem, it should not be a substitute for real treatment.

A heavy liability to bear for the method

The idea of ​​making a connection between the face and psychology is not new, and it was once considered a science. Unfortunately it was not always for the best reasons. We find for example many scientists who attributed to white men a better “skull shape”, compared to black men, proof of a “superiority” of the former over the latter. These theses, very widespread, were at the origin of drifts like the Nazi ideology in Germany in 1933. Since then, the scientific community has proven through multiple studies that these theses were false, and that the shape of the face was not has little impact on a person’s psychology.

Nowadays we remember, with a little more lightness, these theses when it was said that someone has “the bump of maths”! Indeed at the time we really thought that a bump on the skull could mean a greater capacity in mathematics (which is ultimately false).

Morphopsychology was created in France by Louis Corman in 1937, on the basis of “Not to judge, but to understand“, Which therefore differentiates it from the drifts of the method abroad.

The morphopsychologist receives his patients and examines their faces.

He deduces personality traits, unearths the causes of your disorders (often linked to childhood for example), and more generally helps the patient by listening to him and helping him to get to know himself better. The study of the face is in this sense only a means of better understanding the personality of an individual.

There is no training recognized by the French State on the subject of morphopsychology.

Anyone can therefore become a morphopsychologist and claim it. The method of contact is largely by word of mouth, via social networks or internet sites.

La French Society of Morphopsychology offers training of 17 to 20 days of lessons, for the modest sum of 1250 € (full year).