Gifts Differing Understanding Personality Type

by Myers, Isabel Briggs; Myers, Peter B.

• ISBN13: 9780891060741
• ISBN10: 089106074X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-03-05
• Publisher: Nicholas Brealey

Summary

The classic work on the 16 major personality types as identified in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.

Author Biography

The late Isabel Briggs Myers devoted her life to the observation, study, and measurement of personality. With her mother, Katharine Briggs, she authored the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® personality inventory. Peter B. Myers, Ph.D., continues research work on the development and application of personality type. Former staff director of the National Academy of Science, he is currently extending the use of the MBTI® instrument worldwide.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Publisher's Note	xvii
Part I Theory
An Orderly Reason for Personality Differences	1	(16)
Extensions of Jung's Theory	17	(10)
Part II Effects of the Preferences on Personality
Type Tables for Comparison and Discovery	27	(26)
Effect of the EI Preference	53	(4)
Effect of the SN Preference	57	(8)
Effect of the TF Preference	65	(4)
Effect of the JP Preference	69	(8)
Extraverted and Introverted Forms of the Processes Compared	77	(6)
Descriptions of the Sixteen Types	83	(32)
Part III Practical Implications of Type
Use of the Opposites	115	(8)
Type and Marriage	123	(8)
Type and Early Learning	131	(8)
Learning Styles	139	(10)
Type and Occupation	149	(18)
Part IV Dynamics of Type Development
Type and the Task of Growing Up	167	(6)
Good Type Development	173	(8)
Obstacles to Type Development	181	(4)
Motivation for Type Development in Children	185	(6)
Going On From Wherever You Are	191	(12)
Endnotes	203	(2)
References	205	(2)
About Isabel Briggs Myers	207	(5)
Full-Size Type Table	212	(3)
Index	215