Please understand me

character & temperament types

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David Keirsey: Please understand me (1984, Distributed by Prometheus Nemesis Book Co.)

Paperback, 210 pages

English language

Published Sept. 18, 1984 by Distributed by Prometheus Nemesis Book Co..

ISBN:
978-0-9606954-0-9
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OCLC Number:
11585453

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After presenting a brief rundown of 20th-century psychology movements, Keirsey and Bates encourage you to take the 70-question "Keirsey Temperament Sorter," a sort of mini-Myers-Briggs test that places you in 1 of 16 personality types. Like the Myers-Briggs system, this test sorts your personality into groups of extraversion/introversion (E/I), sensation/intuition (S/N), thinking/feeling (T/F), and perceiving/judging (P/J). Unlike the Myers-Briggs system, Please Understand Me also presents four easy-to-remember temperament types--Dionysian (freedom first), Epimethean (wants to be useful), Promethean (desires power), and Apollonian (searches for self)--that underlie the 16 possible personalities identified by the test. The book then delves into a detailed analysis of each type, with sections on mates, children, and leaders. An appendix paints portraits of the 16 possible personality types.

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Subjects

  • Persönlichkeit
  • Typologie
  • Typology (Psychology)
  • Typologie (Psychologie)
  • Character
  • Interpersonal Relations
  • Caractère
  • Intelligenz
  • Tempérament
  • Charakter
  • Temperament
  • Psychotherapy
  • Psychologie
  • Personnalité