by Ray Moody, Mark Majors, and Mina Barimany (Read the second article and the third article in this series)(Watch the YouTube video of the conference session) For decades we have been limited to identifying and describing the behaviors that result from four different functions or mental processes; the dominant, auxiliary, tertiary, and the inferior. With MajorsPTI we …
The art of making the complex simple by Sue Blair I like words. They are important. They carry a multitude of meanings in a multitude of languages and we cannot communicate without them. Sometimes, though, there is not quite the right word to fit the occasion. Despite my Sensing preference which craves reality I find …
By Carol Shumate When John Beebe invited me to co-teach a graduate course on psychological type with him, I was delighted—until I learned that students did not know their types and that I would not be allowed to use an assessment tool with them. As is often the case in life, hardship breeds invention, and …
Evidence as to why Type criticisms are misguided and how we can respond by Penny Moyle and John Hackston Ever heard or read criticisms of type instruments, in particular the MBTI® assessment? It’s a rhetorical question; the MBTI® is regularly damned in both academic literature and the popular press. Last summer we experienced a new spate of …
…Can type take the Strain? by Catherine Stothart When we communicate with others, we usually have a positive intention, but sometimes the impact of our behaviour can be negative. This reduces our influence and may mean we don’t achieve the outcomes we intended. To close the influence gap we need at least three things: Self-awareness …
Empirical evidence for the hierarchy of preferences: Applications for practitioners and researchers By Mina Barimany Carl Jung understood the significance of paradox, and those who have read his original work know that this ‘tension between opposites’ pervades much of his writing and theory. It seems fitting then, that in order to move the theory forward, …
