How to Analyze People on Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

How to Analyze People on Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types, credited to Benedict, Elsie Lincoln, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of How to Analyze People on Sight, by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict. In this popular American book from the 1920s, accomplished public speaker and self-help charlatan Elsie Lincoln Benedict outlines her pseudo-scientific system of "Human Analysis". She proposes that, within the human race, five sub-types have developed through evolutionary processes, each with its own distinct character traits and corresponding outward appearance. She offers to teach the reader how to recognise these five types of people and understand their innate differences. Her ideas have never been taken seriously by the scientific community, but this book is considered a classic within its genre and remains in print today. Summary by Carl Manchester.

Recording facts

• Recording title: How to Analyze People on Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types
• Author credits: Benedict, Elsie Lincoln
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 16
• Listed recording duration: 6:50:25

Catalogue topics

• psychology
• pseudoscience

Track guide

1. 01 - Front matter — 4:24
2. 02 - Human Analysis — 41:37
3. 03 - Chapter 1, part 1 The Alimentive Type — 22:20
4. 04 - Chapter 1, part 2 The Alimentive Type — 30:24
5. 05 - Chapter 2, part 1 The Thoracic Type — 32:08
6. 06 - Chapter 2, part 2 The Thoracic Type — 28:33
7. 07 - Chapter 3, part 1 The Muscular type — 20:38
8. 08 - Chapter 3, part 2 The Muscular type — 22:21
9. 09 - Chapter 4, part 1 The Osseous Type — 21:50
10. 10 - Chapter 4, part 2 The Osseous Type — 22:21
11. 11 - Chapter 5, part 1 The Cerebral Type — 20:58
12. 12 - Chapter 5, part 2 The Cerebral Type — 26:06
13. 13 - Chapter 6, part 1 Types That Should and Should Not Marry Each Other — 24:14
14. 14 - Chapter 6, part 2 Types That Should and Should Not Marry Each Other — 31:14
15. 15 - Chapter 7, part 1 Vocations For Each Type — 26:47
16. 16 - Chapter 7, part 2 Vocations For Each Type — 34:36

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