by Isabel Briggs Myers
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The classic work on the 16 major personality types as identified in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 Amazing book for learning personality types!, 2008-12-12
I was initially interested in this book because I was interested in learning the theory behind the MBTI Personality Indicator. This book, written by the creator of the Myers-Briggs Indicator, was exellent in explaining the theory behind it. It gives descriptions of each type, as well as other interesting studies that were done in education, career, and relationships and how they correlated with personality type. I'm a great believer of this personality typing, and really believe that this book helps greatly in understanding people and seeing thier strengths as well as understanding thier weaknesses and how to deal with them effectively. This book will help you in all aspects of your life, your personal relationships, family relationships, co-workers, school, and every part of your life that deals with people. It will greatly enlighten your understanding of the sources of conflict and how to be able to harmonize, even with essential differences. This book is also engaging and I was stuck all the way through. She writes to keep you interested, and it is wonderful. I would recommend this book to anyone!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
 Specific Applications Only, 2008-07-05
This book is more specifically targeted than most of others in the field. I have been a devotee of this concept and have found it quite useful. It was used at my federal workplace highly effectively. This is largely a brief summry of the main ideas of the system and their application across occupational fields. Of interest mainly personnel or human relations staff. Other books do it better for the general audience.
0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Great, 2008-06-20
Recieved item on time, right when we were told it would arrive. Book in very good condition.
2 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
 Flawed, 2008-05-20
This book is based on the MBTI system and please understand that this system has serious flaws. The only effective system to personality typing is used by Rod Novichkov in his book How to Find Yourself and Your Best Match Socionics. Eventhough the book sounds like a matchmaking book it is infact written with the purpose of explaining the different personality types and goes further to explain morphology and intertype relationships between people. Read Socionics and inspire your professors to look at this type theory before you seek answers from MBTI; you will be impressed.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
A user manual for the human mind, 2007-10-12
In this book, Isabel Myers explains, in clear language and a gentle, lyrical voice, the personality type theory to which she devoted the second half of her life. Her aim in developing the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator was simple: to help "normal everyday people with normal everyday problems."
Though some of the concepts it contains are complex, this book is certainly accessible to a lay audience. Myers was not an academician, and she doesn't write like one. Her prose is lovely and full of imagery (she was a fiction writer, after all). It's a book to be savored, not skimmed.
The main advantage of this book over the others is that it presents Myers's theory unfiltered. It's not an interpretation; it's the real deal. Myers focuses much attention on the role of psychological functions, a topic that David Keirsey doesn't address in "Please Understand Me II." Psychological functions are a key component of the MBTI.
While this book doesn't contain an assessment for determining individual personality type, it does contain tables comparing the two orientations for each of the four preferences. Readers ought to be able to gain at least some idea of what type they fall into.
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