An interesting research study is underway investigating the possibility that hand features indicate some aspects of our psyche. Liz Hallows in Texas has been investigating the idea for years that she can tell type preferences from an individual’s hand prints.

Hand features indicate a personal living system of our brain. She suggests that certainly our body's hand development can be influenced by the demands of other systems such as environment (inside and beyond the womb), family and society. But if our hands are a concrete result of our innate constitution, brain function, and habitual patterns, then hands provide us with a stable blueprint of our unique patterns. For her, hands represent a theoretical model of the psyche. She is correlating part of this model with Jung's theoretical model of psychological type as sorted by the MBTI.

Just as we agree that the MBTI Profile is an interrelated system of function-attitudes to be interpreted in relationship as 'whole type'. Similarly, the hand features are also to be "interpreted" in combination with each other as 'whole hand type'. The main assumption made by analyzers of our body's hand features is that psychological concepts are embedded in these 'concrete' physical structures and are awaiting our correct and validated interpretation.

If you have any questions about the study, please feel free to contact Liz Hallows (ENTP) at HANDscapes RESEARCH in Houston, TX at (713-533-1123) or unicoms@compuserve.com.