Personality Types : Using the Enneagram for Self-Discovery

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Summary: Excellent.
Review: This is an excellent, practical guide to understanding yourself and others better, via the Enneagram. I use it as a reference to explain and predict the seemingly erratic behavior of people in my workplace and at home. It takes time to plough through the 500 pages, but the payoff is enormous.

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Summary: Personality Types helped me to understand people
Review: This revised edition provides the most valuable info I have ever seen in any enneagram book. It showed where I am at and where I can potentially be. I particularly like how it strikes a balance between the good and the bad traits. They avoid nasty descriptive terms to describe each of the 9 personality types. My father's biotech company uses this book to improve productivity. It's also helped our family members to better understand one another. It has given me the ability to have a greater understanding of myself and those around me.

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Summary: Personality Typing via Testing Provides Therapeutic Leverage
Review: Though put off at first, I was astonished at the number of useful insights from discovering "types" from taking (and giving to others) the book's extensive personality test, and reading the strengths and vulnerabilities of the respective types. In depth, intelligent psychological portraits sheds light on personal dilemmas, providing leverage for change, including even techniques for different types' self improvement. Cautions: (1) don't "type" folks without them actually taking the test (the "RHETI", not the shorter, newer substitutes), which may yield surprising results. I was somewhat surprised to see myself -- a law professor -- to be an "artist/romantic" ["4"]; (2) read more than one source for different names for the nine archetypes -- which draw heavily on Jung, eastern thought, and a tradition several thousand years old!