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Title: Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type by Isabel Briggs Myers, Peter B. Myers ISBN: 0-89106-074-X Publisher: Davies-Black Pub Pub. Date: May, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: It will change the way you think
Comment: I find there are few books as inspiring, deep, necessarily disturbing and as interesting as Gifts Differing. I became interested in this issue by accident and stumbled upon "Gifts Differing". Isabel Briggs had an extrodinary mind and this is shown in the analysis, insight and material in this book. The strong point of Isabel Briggs is she explores the darker sides of the human personality that later writing (i.e., Keirsey) seem to miss out completely and hence are very superficial and unrealistic in their desciptions of human beings. I think there is lots of potential, should she still be alive to adapt and improve this theory. It is a shame that it is mainly a tool for employment consultants, because it is really much more profound that that. If Isabel were alive I would surely want to meet her.
Rating: 5
Summary: THE book on Myers-Briggs Typology
Comment: If you are at all interested in the Myers-Briggs personality typing system, this book should be number one on your reading list. Unlike 95% of the books on the subject, this one is not a bunch of pop pyschology fluff. This is one of the only books on the subject with any depth at all to it. And it's a good thing it does, seeing as it was written by the co-creator of the MBTI herself, Isabel Myers. Unlike other "Please Understand Me" or "Type Talk", this book actually deals with the Jungian basis of personality, and not just the four letters associated with each type. The Jungian personality typing system is based on the concept of dominant functions. ENFPs and ENTPs for instance are both "Extraverted Intuitives", which is what defines the way they think more than anything. (And ENFJ, on the other hand is an "Extraverted Feeler"). You won't be taught these concepts in most other books on the subject. Isabel also eloquently explains why the MB system is different, especially concerning introverts, from Jung's original system.
If you're interested in MB personality types and actually wish to read a book by some one who knows what they are talking about and isn't just writing to sell pop psyschology best seller, read this book. This is also a must read if you have been trying to reconcile Jung with the MBTI and have had trouble doing so.
Rating: 5
Summary: Roadmap to what lies behind the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Comment: Written with exqusite care, Gifts Differing is one of those rare books to be pondered and reread. I first read it in 1980 when it first came out, and my copy is dog-eared and much underlined. It is not for casual reading, or a quick approach to finding out about one's personality type. Wanting to get Carl Jung's ideas of the psychological types out of the psychiatrist's office into general use, she wrote Gifts Differing to lay out the theory for general readers, with care and in detail. It is a classic, will never be "out of date," and I strongly recommend it for anyone who has been affected by her instrument, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, and wants to go deeper into the ingenious theory she fleshed out from Jung's work.
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Title: Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence by David Keirsey ISBN: 1885705026 Publisher: Prometheus Nemesis Book Co Pub. Date: May, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The 16 Personality Types, Descriptions for Self-Discovery by Linda V. Berens, Dario Nardi ISBN: 0966462475 Publisher: Telos Pubns Pub. Date: July, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Please Understand Me: Character and Temperament Types by David Keirsey, Marilyn Bates ISBN: 0960695400 Publisher: Prometheus Nemesis Book Co Pub. Date: November, 1984 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: The Art of Speed Reading People : How To Size People Up and Speak Their Language by Paul D. Tieger, Barbara Barron-Tieger ISBN: 0316845183 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 25 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Type Talk : The 16 Personality Types That Determine How We Live, Love, and Work by Janet M. Thuesen, Otto Kroeger ISBN: 0440507049 Publisher: Delta Pub. Date: 01 September, 1989 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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