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Hand Diagnostics & Psychiatry:

schizophrenia: palmar lines, head line, heart line, life line & simian line

LEVEL 3: The palmar lines and schizophrenia.

So far a sample of 5 research studies focussed on the relationship between the lines of the hand and schizophrenia:

The oldest studie was executed in 1924 at the Colombia University in New York. Elizabeth Wilson¹ observed that the hands schizophrenics show (slightly) more abnormalities in the head line and heart line compared to the hands of normal people (controls). The data of Wolff's study ² confirms this observation. And many years later Haft Pomrock & Ginath³ observed that the 'quality' of especially the head line (and the heart line + life line as well) is usually much lower in the hands of people who suffer on schizophrenia - compared to the hands normal people (non-schizophrenics).

In the earlier mentioned twin study executed by Bracha⁴, the researchers noticed that the hands of the schizophrenic twin-halfs show much more frequently an interruption in the head line or the heart line: see figure C-6. Table C-5 presents an indication for the predictive value of these hand features.

In Wolff's study ² the simian line was observed in 15% of schizophrenics. In the hands of normal people (5%) and people with a mental disability (11%) the simian crease was observed less frequently.

Wolff's studie ² mentions also that in the hands of schizophrenics it is frequently (10%) hard to discriminate the primary creases (heart line, head line + life line) from the secondary creases. In the hands of normal people this phenomenon is noticed rarely.

Sources:

1 - Wilson, E. Mental abnormality as related to hand-markings.. M.A. Thesis, Colombia University, New York, 1924.
2 - Wolff, Ch. The Hand in Psychological Diagnosis. Methuen & Co. Ltd., London, 1951.
3 - Haft-Pomrock, Y. & Ginath, Y. (1982). Differences between schizophrenics and normal controls using chirological (hand) testing. Isr. J. Psychiatry. Relat. Sci., vol.19; no.1, p.5-22.

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