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: #22869 in Books
• Published on: 1999-07-19
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 52 pages

Review
... the authors cut right to the core concerns: ways to describe personality and discovering your best-fit type. -- Book Reader, Fall/Winter 2000/01

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

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

The best I have read. Well written, easy to understand and very user friendly." -- Stephen Hulsey

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

From the Back Cover
"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power." - Lao Tzu

Like trees in a forest, we are ever changing . . .yet staying the same . . .weathering the seasons of life. Coming to understand who we are is like looking into a lake. Sometimes the lake is so clear the reflection is nearly perfect, and we can't tell what is "real" and what is reflected. Other times, as in life, the lake is choppy. We only see a resemblance of ourselves, or we recognize nothing at all.

Self-reflection can help us know ourselves, but may lead us in circles. Likewise, personality tests aren't always accurate. They are, like the choppy lake, subject to the winds of change, often reflecting our basic pattern but sometimes misleading us. Friends, family, and co-workers can give us valuable feedback but see us through their own lenses--sometimes, only giving us clues. Only by integrating all of these methods can we find our best-fit personality type pattern.

The Sixteen Personality Types, Descriptions for Self-Discovery engages you in a self-discovery process using multiple forms of feedback. This process of uncovering and revealing requires your active participation. This book is designed to help you actively participate in your own self-discovery process. Accurate identification of our best-fit personality type pattern is the first step in mastering ourselves. Without it, we can delude ourselves. With it, we can find true insight, wisdom, security and freedom.

About the Author
Linda V. Berens Linda V. Berens, Ph.D. is the Director and Founder of Temperament Research Institute, which provides organizational consulting, training and MBTI qualifying programs. She is the author of Understanding Yourself and Others, an Introduction to Temperament, and coauthor of Working Together, a Personality Approach to Management as well as numerous training materials. As an organizational development consultant, she applies systems thinking and understanding individual differences to solving organizational problems. She is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Educational Psychologist, and has over twenty-five years experience using temperament and type with individuals and teaching these theories to professionals. Linda is recognized internationally for her contributions to the field of psychological type, for integrating temperament and Jung's typology, and for developing user friendly training materials for practical application of those theories.

Dario Nardi Dario Nardi, Ph.D. is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Mathematics at University of California, Los Angeles, in the department's Program in Computing. He has been working with type and temperament since 1992, and has been intimately involved in innovative product development with the Temperament Research Institute for seven years. He has authored several papers on type research with students. Dario received his degree in systems science from S.U.N.Y. Binghamton's Watson School of Engineering. His background in systems thinking, linguistics and artificial intelligence, undergraduate curriculum design and writing has led him to breakthroughs using multiple methods and models for getting at the "true self," as well as for restructuring academic courses to suit all learning styles.

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.