Product Description

Focuses on and explains Carl Jung's theory of psychological types. The book is intended for the use of trainers and practitioners who already have a basic understanding of Jung's and Meyer's concepts of psychological Type. The growing use o f the MBTI-Consulting Psychologists Press, Inc., reports one million or more administrations a year-dictates a need for a definitive resource on the function-attitudes for the practitioner.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #673163 in Books
• Published on: 1996-10-29
• Format: Unabridged
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 141 pages

Georgia APT Newsletter, Jan. 1997
In Jung's Function-Attitudes Explained, Dr. Thompson pulls together a lot of important information about the function -attitudes from the writings of Jung himself, Jung's professional colleagues and other well-known commentators and students of his theory, including Isabel B. Myers. He also provides graphic illustrations and an image label for each function-attitude to help define more clearly their distinctive characteristics.

Frost, April 27, 1997
I recently finished [Dr.] Thompson's book, Jung's Function-Attitudes Explained; an excellent book, thorough and lucidly written; recommended highly.

Steve Myers, Team Technology, March 3, 1997
I have been "in the grip" this morning-in the grip of [Dr. Thompson's] new book, Jung's Function-Attitudes Explained. I'm only up to chapter three, but already my understanding of Myers-Briggs has deepened, and I've been taken into new areas. It is expertly written, easy to read, but it is packed with really meaningful information and lots of the proverbial "aha" experiences! I have a suspicion that it is going to rank along with Navigating Midlife and Beside Ourselves as one of my favorite and "most-quoted" books.

Customer Reviews

An invaluable resource for Type practitioners!
This is an outstanding book - a must-have tool for type practioners, or anyone wishing to learn about type on a much deeper level.

Thompson clearly describes the function-attitudes and provides insightful examples and illustrations that help the reader to quickly understand their dynamic nature and impact on personality.

As a type practitioner, I have often struggled when trying to explain the effects of introverted and extraverted attitudes on the use of each function. Thompson has clearly and succinctly described the process so that anyone can easily understand it.

I wish someone had mentioned this book to me when I went through the MBTI qualification course - - it would have certainly made it easier to move beyond a basic level of understanding of Type theory!

Problems
This book has problems. The descriptions of functions are uneven and ambiguous, and full of questionable examples. Several of the descriptions of the functions are nothing more than assemblages of quotes and thin paraphrasings from Jung and other authors, strung together into long paragraphs that add up to nothing. The author also seems to have emotional biases toward and away from some types.

One good thing about the book is that it quotes extensively from Jung's Psychological Types, and those quotes do make sense. The book would have been much better if he had just quoted all of Jung's work, and left out his own mistakes.