Characters traces through history

The interference of the mind/body dualism in the development of diseases has determined the appearance of several theories that evaluate this relation. Among them, should be noted that character traces are associated with specific body structure, so, similar body shapes present similar behaviors/feelings.The objective of this article was to evaluate the approach to character traces over time and the presence of instruments that measure the percentage of each trace in a person. This is a descriptive research of the literature review type, which selection of articles happened in January and February of 2022 in the Lilacs, Apa Psycnet and Pubmed databases, and the following descriptors were used in English and Portuguese: "Character; traces; analysis; Reich; Freud; Lowen; measure; theory".The chosen papers were published in Portuguese, English, Spanish and filtered according to the complete availability and consistent with the theme. Among the 595 results, 11 were redone and 18 were appropriated to the objective. The term "character traces" does not appear explicitly in most of the selected studies, and only two studies describe the five characters traces: schizoid, oral, psychopathic, masochist and rigid. No study pointed out a tool capable of measuring the percentage of each character trace.