RT Journal
A1 Blatt SJ
T1 M.k.p.—myokinetic psychodiagnosis
JF A.M.A. Archives of General Psychiatry
JO A.M.A. Archives of General Psychiatry
YR 1959
FD November 1
VO 1
IS 5
SP 558
OP 559
DO 10.1001/archpsyc.1959.03590050126020
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.1959.03590050126020
AB In his foreword, Dr. Gordon Allport indicates that this book is important because “first it contains a diagnostic method of great promise . . . . and second it fixes our attention on the most neglected area of personality theory—the area dealing with underlying dispositions of temperament as these are manifested in expressive movements.” One must agree with Dr. Allport, for, despite the fact that a number of theortical, empirical, and clinical issues are omitted, Professor Mira y Lopez has developed an exciting procedure of great promise. The M.K.P. makes available for study the area of expressive movements, for, though there have been several earlier attempts to study expressive movements, and though data from this domain are frequently used by clinicians (i.e., posture, gait, and handwriting), there has been no technique which approaches these issues with the organized and systematic methodology inherent in the M.K.P.Mira y Lopez’ postulate of psychomyokinesis is that “each