The articles posted here are from a variety of authors. Mostly we publish pieces written by speakers who will present at our conference, but the subjects are interesting of themselves, so they won’t go out of date after the relevant conference. Feel free to share on media and link to them from your blog or wherever. Enjoy!
BY JANE KISE & ANN HOLM Look at this nasty bunch of characters. If you caught Jane’s 2019 session on Saboteurs—or our joint 2018 sessions in Brisbane and Auckland—they should look familiar. If not, their names say it all. Have you met a “Stickler” or a “Victim”? Or any of the others? If you’re curious …
BY GERALD OTIS Isabel Myers liked to illustrate different Psychological Types using figures or events from history. One can also reverse the process, enhancing the appreciation of historical figures and events by adopting a Type perspective, as I show in my biography Joseph Lee Heywood: His Life and Tragic Death (ISBN: 978-0-9835944-2-0). I grew up …
or, A Critical Psychology of Psychic Processes BY DAVID POOL In 1934, Carl Jung penned a new foreword to his book, Psychological Types, for the publication of the Argentine edition of the book. He opened his foreword by acknowledging that “No book that makes an essentially new contribution to knowledge enjoys the privilege of being …
BY JERRY GILPIN This year we’ve all been forced to take a step or two back from what we used to think of as ‘normal’; lots of my friends and clients have told me that there has been a bit more time to reflect and to read, and that mirrors my own experience. As part …
BY DAVID HODGSON I’ve always been attracted to the positive end of psychology. I don’t share my daughter’s fascination with fly-on-the-wall documentaries hunkered down in prisons, police stations and courts. Even Broadchurch only appealed to me when there were sweeping atmospheric shots of the Dorset coastline, which thankfully appeared every few minutes. My bar for …
BY ROB TOOMEY Thinking back 20 years, it is hard to imagine that we would witness the recent explosion of mainstream interest in the topic of personality type. Sites like 16personalities.com and truity.com have millions of users each month seeking to learn basic principles of the Jung/Myers framework. 16personalities alone has had more than 344 …
