Discovering Your Personality Type: The Essential Introduction to the Enneagram, Revised and Expanded
Discovering Your Personality Type: The Essential Introduction to the Enneagram, Revised and Expanded
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Manufacturer: Mariner Books
Author: Don Richard Riso
Binding: Paperback
Publication Date: 2003-05-20
Publisher: Mariner Books
Label: Mariner Books
Number Of Pages: 224 Features:
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The leading experts in the field, Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson have set the standard for determining personality type using the enneagram. Their studies of this ancient symbol and their progress in determining type with increasing accuracy are known, taught, and emulated worldwide. Discovering Your Personality Type is the essential introduction to this system, a psychological framework that can be used practically, in many aspects of daily life. This revised and updated edition features the all-new, scientifically validated Riso-Hudson Type Indicator, and has also been refined and simplified to appeal especially to beginners and anyone interested in unlocking the secrets of personality. The most reliable, most accurate, and most accessible way to identify type, the improved enneagram questionnaire helps identify fundamental character traits, revealing invaluable directions for change and growth. The profile that emerges is useful for a wide variety of purposes: professional development, education, relationships, vocational counseling, and more. Discovering Your Personality Type is the book readers need in order to begin to see the possibilties made available by understanding personality types. Cached date: AWS Called=true You may also be interested in these products:
Personality X-Ray 2008-02-26 This interesting book featuring the updated Riso-Hudson Enneagram Type Indicator is useful and worth reading. I took time time to answer the 144 questions and what I discovered confirmed the test I have already carried out online with the simple personality test. To improve on your person and on your relationship with others, you must have to know your fundamental compression and the sub-compressions. These 144 questions are well selected, realistic, and sensible. If you can, just read the book and carry out the test and I assure you, you will never regret it.
very important work 2008-01-22 this is a great enneagramm book, both for beginner and advanced students. There are so many important concepts that I plan on reading this book again. Kept my interest and I highly reccomend this book.
It's OK, but I ended up being a Myers Briggs fan. 2007-05-06 In order to develop a personality typing method, you have to make it fairly complicated, taking more patience than the average pop psych afficionado. Thus, the enneagram method is just as complicated as the 16 personality types found in Myers Briggs method. You can't get around that. That being said, the book fails for a number of reasons.
First, it spends so much time explaining the method that it never spends a great deal of time justifying it. Thus, it was not a very good introduction to the subject. Since it is a scientific method, the author should assume that the person reading it is a skeptic, like most scientists.
Second, the book argues that this method leads to a spiritual awareness of the contingency of personality, where you understand that you are not your personality, you are in fact a soul (put simplistically). Well, the author should express an interest in his own subject, I would think. People are trying to understand their personalities, and yet the author is essentially arguing that the personality types are just window dressing to your true identity. I expect psychology, and I get the Dalai Lama!
I'm not saying it's wrong, I'm saying it is morally questionable to place all that spiritual extra baggage on what could possibly be a scientific method. The author is essentially saying that everyone will come to the same conclusions about spirituality once they take a hard look at their personality type. This is wishful thinking. For someone who purports to understand differences among people, I think it is ridiculous for the author to suggest that everyone's reaction to this process would be so uniform; people may formulate their own spiritual conclusions, or they may not see it as having a spiritual component at all.
Thorough "Forced-Choice" Test Better than General Reading 2007-03-05 Having read widely in the fascinating Enneagram literature, I find this test indispensable in accomplishing the actual typing of a person. People and their friends often wish for one Enneagram label or another to apply to them, and Enneagram typing from general reading is susceptible to this *major* distortion. Containing dozens of questions, this thought provoking, multiple choice test -- which forces a choice between the answers presented for each question, often including either *no* answers appealing to the examinee, or *too many* appealing answers -- gives the examinee less opportunity to answer by prior self-stereotyping, and less of a hint of what Enneagram types correspond to which answers. "Forced-choice" testing, widely respected in psychological testing circles, can be uncomfortable when no answers seem a happy fit, but they are a good testing format. Even in other excellent books by Riso and Hudson -- also my favorite Enneagram writers -- the shorter quizzes don't compare in clarity to this. Don't skip this in your efforts to type yourself or a friend.
This book also contains a short exposition of the Enneagram approach and types. This part is cursory, and reading one of Riso and Hudson's lengthier books will be far more satisfying for this information and analysis. Helen Palmer's work is also excellent, but she takes a darker, more pessimistic view of human beings. Hudson and Riso, while recognizing each type's darker sides, present a far more balanced analysis.
Know Thyself. 2007-01-09 This book gives you the tools to identify and understand your inherent strengths and weakness'. This process is vital if you are to apply action steps to improve your life. If you want to hit the target, you have to know where the target is!
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