A way that personality typology can be unhelpful, and maybe even harmful, is the temptation to have an excessive focus on the externals of traits and behaviors. In his book Compass of the Soul, John Giannini, who was a Jungian…
According to John Beebe, Jung's type was INTJ. Jung described himself as an introverted intuitive thinking type. One must keep in mind his model had 8 personality types, not the 16 types developed under MBTI. Sometimes I wonder if Jung's…
Since Myers Briggs started to become popular in the 1980's, many new offshoots of MBTI started to proliferate once blogging and social media arrived on the scene. We now find ourselves in the situation where many people interested in type…
A big problem with Jung's Psychological Types book is that it is hard to read. Most people skip to the chapters where he describes the functions and type theory. The seeds for MBTI were sown when Katherine Briggs read Psychological…
When Carl Jung's relationship with Sigmund Freud ended, it had a big impact on his life, because he had been Freud's designated heir. He wanted to understand why they ultimately couldn't get along and knew that his introversion was one…