Gifts Differing Understanding Personality Type,9780891060741

Gifts Differing Understanding Personality Type

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Edition: Reprint
ISBN13: 9780891060741
ISBN10: 089106074X
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1995-03-05
Publisher(s): Nicholas Brealey
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Summary

The classic work on the 16 major personality types as identified in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.

Author Biography

The late Isabel Briggs Myers devoted her life to the observation, study, and measurement of personality. With her mother, Katharine Briggs, she authored the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® personality inventory. Peter B. Myers, Ph.D., continues research work on the development and application of personality type. Former staff director of the National Academy of Science, he is currently extending the use of the MBTI® instrument worldwide.

Table of Contents

Preface xi
Publisher's Note xvii
Part I Theory
An Orderly Reason for Personality Differences
1(16)
Extensions of Jung's Theory
17(10)
Part II Effects of the Preferences on Personality
Type Tables for Comparison and Discovery
27(26)
Effect of the EI Preference
53(4)
Effect of the SN Preference
57(8)
Effect of the TF Preference
65(4)
Effect of the JP Preference
69(8)
Extraverted and Introverted Forms of the Processes Compared
77(6)
Descriptions of the Sixteen Types
83(32)
Part III Practical Implications of Type
Use of the Opposites
115(8)
Type and Marriage
123(8)
Type and Early Learning
131(8)
Learning Styles
139(10)
Type and Occupation
149(18)
Part IV Dynamics of Type Development
Type and the Task of Growing Up
167(6)
Good Type Development
173(8)
Obstacles to Type Development
181(4)
Motivation for Type Development in Children
185(6)
Going On From Wherever You Are
191(12)
Endnotes 203(2)
References 205(2)
About Isabel Briggs Myers 207(5)
Full-Size Type Table 212(3)
Index 215

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