Product Description

The 16 Personality Types, Descriptions for Self-Discovery is an invaluable tool for users of the MBTI and related instruments. These descriptions present a living systems approach to describing the 16 types. Dr. Berens and Dr. Nardi have captured the essence of the 16 type patterns and crafted descriptions to be used to by individuals to clarify their best-fit type.

This booklet provides the user with . . .
* an interactive process to help individuals clarify their own best-fit type.
* worksheets to help individuals better understand themselves and others.
* a brief description of the themes for each type pattern
* a snapshot for each type pattern
* a full page Portrait for each type pattern--written in third person
* a full page Self-Portrait-the long awaited Self-Discovery Descriptions - written in 1st Person
* appendices for a brief overview of temperament, interaction styles, and type dynamics and development.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #33109 in Books
• Published on: 1999-07-19
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 52 pages

Karen Welcome, Staff OD Specialist, Adanced Micro Devices
After 10 Years of working with personality type, I have finally read a description of myself I could have written!

Franklin D. Brown, Outplacement Director, Technifind Outplacement
These are the best descriptions of the sixteen personality types I have seen.

Laurie Duckworth, Trainer, Eastman Chemical
By far the best type descriptions written. Finally, a resource that makes the differences between EXXX and IXXX easy to understand!

Customer Reviews

Highly ineffective
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.

I don't remember writing this....but it must have been me.
I was shocked, amazed and delighted to read my own personality type. It was like I'd written it myself. I wanted to meet and speak with the writer immediately because I'm sure we'd be best of friends. It's a bit scary to find that I can be described in a book. I like to be unique and different. But it also gave me comfort. This is a great tool to help you become more aware of yourself and also discover and effectively deal with others.

The best personality description so far
I have not read this book at all. I have read some of the "ENTP" description off another website (derived from this book) and I must say, I was truely shocked by the accuracy. I have read other ENTP descriptions online and all them made sense and fit me but made feel lazy because of other ENTP's like Thomas Edison and Benjamin Franklin; I felt like I was being compared to. But this author's description fits me to a TEE. From that passage, I have learned that I don't have be fascinated with physics, mechanical inventions and electricty to be an ENTP. This was extremely enlightning. I will be getting this book for Christmas.