Essential Enneagram: The Definitive Personality Test and Self-Discovery Guide -- Revised & Updated Author: David Daniels | Language: English | ISBN:
0061713163 | Format: EPUB
Essential Enneagram: The Definitive Personality Test and Self-Discovery Guide -- Revised & Updated Description
About the Author
David Daniels, M.D., is a clinical professor of psychiatry at Stanford University Medical School, and is a leading developer of the Enneagram.
Virginia Price, Ph.D., (1942-2005) was a psychologist with a private practice in Palo Alto. She wrote Type A Behavior Pattern, a book widely regarded as a landmark in its field.
- Paperback: 128 pages
- Publisher: HarperOne; Rev Upd edition (May 26, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0061713163
- ISBN-13: 978-0061713163
- Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
- Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
There are many facets to the enneagram, which is one of its attractions. I had been studying the enneagram intermittently over a period of about one year, and have learned to appreciate it as a result of having given personality typing some thought over the years, especially the Myers-Briggs typing system. An important point to bear in mind in the typing process for the enneagram is that there is an overall unity represented by the nine points that transcends one's special survival strategy (as seen through the enneagram scheme). Thus, finding one's reference point in this scheme does not put one in a box, but challenges one to develop a broader conception of what it means to be human. This book is very well organized for helping one narrow down possibilities for one's type, based on a scheme of cycling through the types a number of times, presenting different pictures each time, starting with a test that is simple to take. The fact that there was considerable experience in interviewing people involved in the background of the authors, and that there was some statistical analysis that was carried forward is also interesting. This latter facet is particularly poignant in that one's type involves connections to four other types: two wings, a stress point and a security point, and it is of interest to consider how well this theoretical complexity actually shows up under controled conditions. Another aspect that is focused on is the overlap with possible "look-alike" types based on the language that we use to describe people. This book is, of course, no substitute for actually interviewing people of specific types, and in that sense, as well as not being well-organized to discuss the unifying aspects of the enneagram, it is not reflecting the true depth of this system.
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