#head type

The core neurosis of head types revolves around the idea of being prepared from all the possible threats that arrive from the outside world. When you’re confronted with an actual problem, you come up with a solution to the best of your knowledge and insight. Except head types don’t see this due to their overfocus on every possible issue that may or may not arise. This way, they achieve a sense of psychological support they feel they lack. 

They overfocus on issues that might arise, which prevents them from seeing what’s right in front of them. The defense mechanism has nothing to do with being analytical. If anything, head types usually tend to lose sight of logic. Imagine coming up with “in order to survive, I need to cut off my own head” by means of a solution. 

I believe the saying did originate with sighthound people which makes a lot of sense since sighthounds have conformation that is so unlike the average dog, however I see the phrase parroted by purebred breeders of ALL kinds nowadays when talking about structure and while I don’t disagree with the statement, I do get rubbed the wrong way when the people saying “form follows function” have zero experience with said function and that applies to sighthound folk as well, the split between show greyhounds and racing greyhounds makes it pretty clear that breeding specifically for work yields a much different result than breeding for the show ring (as do many working/show splits).