An Eclectic Collection of Research and References

Peter Geyer

The Type Research and Practice Collection (TRPC) [The Collection] has operated with the support of AusAPT since early 2018 – an amalgamation of the contents of the Psychological Type Research Unit (PTRU) at Deakin University (founded in 1996), my personal research library and archive, and donations from others made since 2018.

Although AusAPT will be closing down in mid-2026, I will continue to make its contents available to those interested. There is no outside funding source, nor an associated website or other facility. All inquiries are welcome, including discussions and extra information. Contact is via email; I’m not on social media and do not use a mobile phone..

The Collection is located in my home in outer-suburban Melbourne, Australia, and can be visited by arrangement or invitation. It's somewhat eclectic nature lies in my particular personal and professional curiosity and has existed in various forms over several decades.

The contents cover a range of topics e.g. anthropology, culture, history, politics, psychology, sociology, the sciences, so not solely about the MBTI, so-called “personality type” or C.G. Jung’s psychological types. I think they’re all interconnected and relevant.

The theme of C.G. Jung’s typology and related ideas, including the MBTI®, was essentially commenced in the late 1980s, It also includes materials made available to me by the late Mary McCaulley and Jamie Johnson, the then librarian at CAPT.

This collection theme seeks to situate the notion of psychological types within the history of ideas – particularly as presented (in their different ways) by Jung and Myers, including the many related associations, ideas and interpretations whether science, sociology, philosophy, politics, psychology or religion, and as belief, dogma, principles or proposition, depending on inclination – perhaps even questions without answers.

Another theme is word use – language, meaning, terminology, definition etc.– examining jargon and slogans contained in articles, presentations, theses of all kinds. Relevant terms include behaviour, cognition, consciousness, development, empirical, function, intelligence, personality, preference, self, type, trait, and the eight categories of the Jung/Myers typology – extraversion, feeling, introversion, intuition, judgement, perception, sensing/sensation, thinking – whether used as nouns or as action words.

Jung stated he didn’t have a theory of action. It doesn’t mean his ideas can’t be made into one, but its reasoning needs to be explained.

There are both non-digital and digital components, described separately below.

A number of paragraphs about me are at the end..

The Non-Digital Collection

Archive: Completed MBTI® and other forms either from my own courses and sessions or donated by others, including a Jungian Psychological Type Indicator (JPTI) – a research instrument successfully tested in Switzerland in 2008.

Articles: A number of filing cabinets containing journal and other articles mostly around a typological or personality theme, sorted using the Dewey Decimal System. Themes of communication and writing; culture; educations; ethnicities; health/ medicine; Jung and Jungian ideas; organisations and management; personality; philosophy; politics; pre-1960 articles on psychological topics; psychological tests and measurement; psychotherapy; relationships; religion; science; society; temperament etc.

Books: Essentially non-fiction ie.g. anthropology; brain; consciousness; culture; emotion; gender, history; language; philosophy; politics; psychology; religions; science; technology. Also various topics related to the countries of America, Australia, and Britain, as well as C.G. Jung’s Collected Works, Correspondence, Lectures, Seminars, Red and Black Books.

Type-related:

• Books Approx 150 on type, temperament etc. on a number of subjects; also organisations and management; Student-oriented texts on various topics, including personality, psychiatry, psychology, sociology

• Booklets: including the Introduction to Type series; the Quick Guide series, the Looking at Type series, a series of CAPT publications etc.

• Conference Proceedings: e.g. APT, AusAPT, Type and Culture

• Course Manuals: e.g. Margaret Hartzler, Sandra Hirsh; various MBTI Accreditation; Qualifying Manuals; Personally developed course manuals on various topics;.

• Test Manuals: MBTI (1962; 1985; 1998; Step II, Step III) and others (e.g. CPI, MSCEIT)

• Isabel Briggs Myers: Various articles and manuals from the 1940s on; Murder Yet to come (in English, French and Dutch); give me death.

• Type Ephemera: A random collection of materials related to type association meetings or conferences, including the business of type.

• Type Publications: Complete sets of MBTI News/Bulletin of Psychological Type (hard copy)and Australian Journal of Psychological Type/Australian Psychological Type Review/ Personality; A Typeface collection, The Type Reporter,. TYPEtype (NZ) etc.

• Various printed theses and books

There are also spare copies of the Bulletin, the AusAPT publications and Typeface.

Authors include: Robert Alter (Biblical Translation); David Crystal (Language); Terry Eagleton (Philosophy and Literary Criticism); Umberto Eco (Philosophy and Language); Barbara Ehrenreich (People and Culture; Jerome Kagan (Early Childhood Development; Personality); Bruno Latour (Sociology of Science; Philosophy); G.E.R. Lloyd (Philosophy; Classical Ideas); Mary Midgley (Philosophy); Adam Phillips (Personality; Psychotherapy); Alice Roberts (History, Archaeology etc.); John Searle (Consciousness; Mind; Philosophy); Richard Sennett (Sociology); Rebecca Solnit (Feminist Thought; General Reflections); Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Black Swan Thinking; Randomness)

Books: Currently 4500 or so, a number which fluctuates. Catalogued and sorted using the Dewey Decimal System, with subjects including:

• Anthropology, Culture, Sociology

• Archaeology, Prehistory

• Birds, Animals etc.

• Brain, Consciousness, Mind

• Business, Economics, Organisations: incl. Mats Alvesson, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic,

• Emotion: incl. Lisa Feldman Barrett, Paul Bloom, Antonio Dimasio, Tiffany Watt Smith

• Evolution, Darwinism, eugenics etc.

• History: e.g. Classical, Medieval, Early Modern, European, World

• C.G. Jung: Biographies etc., as outlined earlier

• Jung’s Contemporaries incl. Beatrice M. Hinkle, J.H. van der Hoop, Jolande Jacobi, Aniela Jaffe, Ernst Kretschmer, Constance E. Long, A.A. Roback, Eduard Spranger,

• Jungians; or on Jung’s ideas: incl. W.H. Auden, John Beebe, Paul Bishop, Fanny Brewster, Stefano Carta, Ann Casement, Lionel Corbett, Joan Corrie, Edward F. Edinger, Joan Evans, Rachel Fitzgerald, Frieda Fordham, Michael Fordham, Marie-Louise von Franz; Wolfgang Giegerich, Barbara Hannah, M.Esther Harding, James Hillman,, Raya Jones, Emma Jung, Verena Kast, Mary Ann Mattoon, C.A Meier, Jon Mills, Erich Neumann, Richard Noll, Herbert Read, Murray Stein; Anthony Stevens, Polly Young-Eisendrath

• Language (Meaning; Translation etc) • Atlases and Maps (a personal indulgence)

• MBTI and Psychological Type: incl. Virginia Case, J.H. van der Hoop

• Music

• Philosophy

• Psychology, Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Health

• Religions

• Science

Books–Series:

• A Very Short Introduction: Archaeology; Consciousness; Dynasty; Globalisation; Homer; Human Rights; Identity; The Holy Roman Empire.

• Annual Review of Psychology: Vol. 37 (1986 to Vol. 76 (2025)

• the basics: Air Pollution and Climate Change; Behavioral Economics; C.G. Jung; C.G. Jung’s Collected Works; Emotion; Performance Studies; Religion and Science; Secularism; Subcultures; Translation.

• The Psychology of Everything: Artificial Intelligence; Belonging; Celebrity; Climate Change; Democracy; Driving; Fashion; Gardening; Gender; Grief; Happiness; Memory; Music; Philosophy of Science;Politics; Prejudice; Religion; Social Media; Trust; Weather; Wellbeing; Working Life.

The Digital Collection

This comprises audio-visual material, books, theses, and journal and other articles, either downloaded or as digitised hard copies. They are stored and then sorted on a portable hard drive, for which there is a back-up. This is a continuous process of downloading, labelling and sorting.

There are several sources:

1. Digitised hard copies essentially oriented to psychological type, ranging from Isabel Myers’ writings and speaking presentations/interviews – the latter originally on audio cassette. Similarly, there are digitised conference and other presentations originally in the same format, and a small number of audio-visual presentations. These cassettes and tapes are also held in the Collection.

2. Google Scholar is used to search out related articles and theses, on psychological type, Jungian ideas and also other personality perspectives such as the Big 5. This is a prime source for type-related material, as articles on this topic are rarely appear in mainstream publications. This particular search is carried out on an annual basis focusing on what is available from the previous year; I also conduct occasional, perhaps random, searches for work by individuals, or topics. At the moment “c.g. jung extraversion” is in operation, searching year by year; currently at 2022.

3. Journal Tables of Contents are regularly received from various publishers on a wide range of topics. e.g. Palgrave, Sage, Science Direct, Springer, Wiley. There is a wide range of subject matter and there are an ever-increasing number of these being received. Only articles available through free or open access are downloaded.

4. Other online sources include reputable news media and academically oriented sites freely available. e.g. The Melbourne Age, The Guardian Online, The New Daily, The Conversation, Inside Story, Pearls and Irritations, Aeon, the BPS Newsletter, Nature Briefing, and an archive of London Review of Books articles.

5. Other Sources include material donated or sent by others e.g. articles, books

6. “Personality Type” Websites etc. I’m not in the habit of accessing particular websites purporting to provide information and insight on what is broadly labelled “personality type” – having said that, I have visited some on request and given comment and advice.

These items are in the various forms of English used around the world. I’m unfortunately monolingual, apart from a rudimentary knowledge of Latin, which I find helpful in working out what C.G. Jung might be on about e.g. “extroversion” as “bad Latin” for him. Lists follow of the categories under which the digital material is allocated or sorted, firstly Psychological Type and Jung/ian specific; then general categories.

Digital Psychological Type and Jungian Sorting Categories

These are listed alphabetically:

• Academia Summaries – 23 summaries of articles on the academia.edu website mentioning the MBTI

• American Military Papers mentioning MBTI – 150+ incl. complete publications

• Articles on Type – 3400+ incl. Isabel Briggs Myers, Katharine Briggs and well-known type authors Audiotapes and CDs – 350+ sessions taken from conference and other presentations in the US and Australia

• Blogs and Sites – a few dozen–– items

• Countries and Type – 89 countries and approx. 1300 articles

• ETS Research Bulletin Series – 127 items, primarily around the MBTI and also measurement in general.

• Extraversion-Introversion – c.200 articles with a mixture of type and trait perspectives.

• Jung and Jungian Ideas – 500+ Jungian articles and articles, letters, seminars etc. by Jung. A digital collection of related books held elsewhere in the Collection

• Jungian Books – 50 Jung-related pdf downloads, including earlier texts by contemporaries; e-books are located under the previous category.

• Peter Geyer – What I’ve written; many of these can also be found on academia.edu and researchgate.net as well as MILO.

• Pre-1960 articles – several dozen by Jung’s contemporaries and earlier writers.

General Categories

These will also include some type or Jungian material. Also listed alphabetically:

Academia Summaries – 110+ summaries of articles on the academia.edu website

Authors on a range of topics – 200+ incl c.100 psychologists and 5000+ Journalists/ Journalism articles labelled and sorted.

Books – categorised according to date (1800s onwards) or topic and including excerpts. Those sorted by date (c.335) predominantly psychology, others c.250. There are c550 Open Access books and 230+ uni;abelled in this folder

Complete Journals – 435, containing a relevant item not labelled– c200 with at least one relevant article. Countries – 97 countries with a variety of article topics

Courses and Syllabi – 88 items, mostly unlabelled

Covid – 550+ articles on various topics and from various countries.

Dark Side/Triad – 29 articles; an aspect of trait theories

Downloads – c.2400 articles searchable, labelled but unsorted; c. 32,000 searchable, but unsorted and unlabelled; current Download folder c.3000 items.

Emotions/Emotional Intelligence – 1800+ items, predominantly labelled; Emotional Intelligence; Empathy, Labor, Regulation etc.; Paul Bloom; Lisa Feldman Barrett

Five Factor Model (Big 5) – 700+ labelled and unlabelled. Authors incl. Benet-Martinez, Costa & McCrae. John, Petrides, Terraciano, Jungian. Other categories and occupations.

Journals – 2100 + separate journals are represented on topics including ancient and pre-history, anthropology, archaeology, business/management/organisations, child development, counselling, culture, education, families, feminism, gender, geography, history, neuroscience, politics, psychiatry, psychology, sciences, sociology, technology.

Music – c.700 items, incl. researches and particular musicians.

News and Internet Media – 4000+ articles from various sources.

Newsletters – 150+ on various topics, incl. something about the MBTI or typology.

Powerpoint and similar presentations on various topics incl. personal presentations.

Questionnaires – technical themes on various instruments, including MBTI Forms from Form C onwards, item breakdowns, facets and clusters etc.

Personality Development – various approaches e.g. Aggression; Anxiety; Depression; DSM; Narcissism Resilience; Self; Self-Esteem; Stress; Temperament (non-Keirseyan), Traits. 200+ articles.

Theses; Working and other Papers – 2500+ in the relevant folders.

Downloading is more or less a continual process, and so certain categories such as theses or articles from particular journals are always expanding in number and require labelling.

Naturally, just because an item is in this collection doesn’t imply a recommendation or endorsement of its contents, or of the knowledge of the author(s).

About Me

I don’t like talking about myself, but here it is, a kind of CV…

This is about me as an independent researcher, thinker and sometime short-form writer. I like to share what I’ve encountered, learned, or have collected over the years out of interest. So not exactly me as a person, although it does give an idea as to who I am.

I have a lifelong interest in what human beings are like and what others say about that i.e. associated intellectual and societal issues. I take a multidisciplinary approach and so it’s not just about measurement or models. A specific interest is in what C.G. Jung really said and did – you may/may not be surprised how often Jung is misquoted or misinterpreted, whether in article, book, presentation, thesis or website.

I see Jung’s ideas as propositions rather than dogma or truth and so don’t identify as a Jungian in the interests of objectivity. Overlapping interests include consciousness, personality, language (e.g. definition, meaning, translation, use) and society/social issues.

I’ve studied and taught psychological type and personality for close to 40 years, in that time conducting authorised MBTI® Qualifying Workshops (“Certification” these days) mainly as an Otto Kroeger Associate; also MajorsPTI™ Accreditation courses and on my own type instrument. I also conducted a recognised, independently developed Step II workshop.

This is not a narrow field, to me, anyway, as it involves discussing aspects of sociology (self/organisation, groups, communication), psychology (measurement, personality, counselling) and organisations (management, leadership, teams, conflict etc), amongst other areas of inquiry, in order to credibly teach what is essentially seen as a controversial topic.

Please note that I’m not a psychometrician or qualified as a psychologist.

I’ve never identified as a trainer, even though I offered training courses; I saw it as teaching that was informal and flexible in style; aimed at being comprehensive and multidisciplinary. I preferred teaching individuals and small groups as the most effective way of getting across the relevant ideas. My studies in religions and history in particular assisted me in the appreciation and understanding of the different ways human beings live and learn.

The type-related courses I made up were introductory to advanced – refreshers; advanced; topics like careers, teams, coaching, counselling, learning, writing. The course manuals/ folders I constructed – from a variety of sources – are digitised.

The work and educational experience I brought to my courses ranged from factory floor and storeroom to corporate office, lecture theatre and classroom. I taught people from a variety of cultural, educational and social backgrounds, including First Nations people, although the majority attending my Accreditation/Qualifying courses were consultants, management or human resources people; career counsellors at one point. Some of these were from places other than Australia, or working in other countries e.g. Dubai; England; Fiji; Hong Kong; India; Indonesia; New Zealand; Singapore) In order to teach effectively, I thought I needed to be aware of issues and ideas in organisations now, in the past and in the future.

I’ve presented my ideas, in Australia internationally, on his research and practice, on topics such as MBTI origins and development, type and consciousness, depression, emotion etc., as a contemporary personality theory, and on social implications of a type perspective. My review was also sought for Tools for Team Excellence (Davies–Black 1996) and Tools for Team Leadership (Davies–Black 2004), by Prof. Gregory E. Huszczo and Quick Guide to the 16 Personality Types and Career Mastery by Charles R. Martin (Telos 2003).

Academia

The purpose of this section is to give you an idea of where I’m coming from.

As context, I have a working class background and am the first person in my family to complete secondary schooling, as well as go on to university.

My tertiary qualifications are [BA(Hons) [LaTrobe] – Religions and History; Dip.Ed. [Monash] – Secondary Education (History; Politics; Religions; Humanities); Grad Dip (Org.Behaviour) [Swinburne]; MSc.[Melbourne] – History and Philosophy of Science/ Science in Society (Minor thesis: "Quantifying Jung: the origin and development of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator”).

I’m an alumni association member at all these institutions.

I also attempted a PhD at the University of South Australia, which I was unable to complete. After completing my primary degree I was a member of the 17th Century Studies Group at LaTrobe University, attending evening sessions; the Australian Association for the Study of Religions (AASR), attending several conferences throughout Australia, and the History Institute Victoria, attending their events. I also attended a Christopher Hill Summit School in 17th Century English History (ANU Canberra) in early 1981 during my studies.

During and after the Swinburne studies, I attended several organisation and group related workshops, including a series conducted by the Australian Institute of Social Analysis (AISA) an object-relations oriented group influential at that time in organisational studies in Melbourne. I was also part of an informal discussion group on post-modernism and organisations in the early-mid 1990s with academic staff from RMIT and Swinburne.

Other memberships over time have included the Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI), a Professional Affiliate of the Australian Psychological Society (APS), The British Society for the History of Science (BSHS), the History of Science Society (USA), the C.G. Jung Society of Melbourne and the Victorian Institute of Teaching.

I have been a casual tutor in the organisations area at Swinburne and at Deakin University’s Warrnambool campus; I was also part of an informal discussion group on post-modernism and organisations in the early-mid 1990s with academic staff from RMIT and Swinburne.

I’ve also been involved in research with the University of Wollongong, Deakin University and Victoria University of Technology and have been a guest lecturer at Eastern Michigan University and the National Training Laboratories in Bethel, Maine, teaching academic staff at Zayed University, Dubai, and have been a visiting scholar at universities in Korea and Switzerland, the latter as a means of developing my own Jungian questionnaire. I also developed and taught a Personality Theory component of the Graduate Diploma in Jungian Studies at the University of South Australia.

Over the years I have regularly provided advice to postgraduate students (here and overseas) and other researchers where my expertise is relevant.

Type Associations

AusAPT: I’m a founding member and former office holder at national and regional levels and was made a life member in 1998. I was a co-founder of the Psychological Type Research Unit at Deakin University, negotiating on behalf of the association.. I’ve been an editor of the Australian Journal of Psychological Type and contributed a column and other articles to the Australian Psychological Type Review and the later publication in Personality. predominantly on social and philosophical aspects of personality differences as well as words and meanings. More recently, there have been Reading Group sessions on Zoom, where C.G. Jung’s Psychological Types was discussed and more recently Jolande Jacobi’s The Psychology of C.G. Jung.

APTi: I attended APTi conferences between 1991 and 2017, presenting regularly. I was Theory and Research Interest Area Consultant from 2006 to 2010 writing in the Bulletin of Psychological Type on theory and research issues, providing research advice to members and organising Symposia for APTi Conferences. I also contributed book reviews to the Bulletin and was at one time a member of the APTi Board of Standards. I was generously made a lifetime member some years ago.

BAPT: I presented at the 1996 BAPT Conference, over the years writing several articles for their publication Typeface. I presented online at the 2024 BAPT Conference on the Voice referendum in Australia.I was recently honoured with life membership.

Travels: I’ve presented psychological type throughout Australia, in Korea (where I was interviewed for television on the MBTI), Dubai, Switzerland, the USA and the UK. I also attended and presented at a number of the Type and Culture research events held in Honolulu, Hawaii, and an event arranged by Roger Pearman on Type Dynamics. 

peter@petergeyer.com