 | Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence by David Keirsey
Buy new: $14.36 / Used from: $4.99 This is a book on temperament theory. You won't find much detail about individual preferences but there's a lot of description about the effects of the combined preferences.
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 | Personality Types: Jung's Model of Typology (Studies in Jungian Psychology By Jungian Analysts, No 31) by Daryl Sharp
Buy new: $25.00 / Used from: $8.00 This is a book on Jungian Personality Type. The effects of the combined preferences aren't mentioned much but the underlying facets which combine to determine behaviour are deescribed.
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 | The Creative Brain by Ned Herrmann
Buy used from: $2.87 This is a neurology book. It describes the neurological basis for personality styles i.e. brain dominance (left-brain, right-brain etc.)
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 | Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type by Isabel Briggs Myers
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $2.00 This is Myers-Briggs theory.(MBTI) It mainly deals with individual prerences and types but also has elements of temperament, which temperament theorists like Keirsey disagree with.
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 | Jung's Function-Attitudes Explained by Henry L. Thompson
Buy used from: $8.95 Lots of pictures and diagrams in this one. Jungian Theory.
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 | Personality Type (Jung on the Hudson Book Series) by Lenore Thomson
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $4.98 This book has its own self-scoring personality questionnaire based on the MBTI. Extensive descriptions of the types are included. MBTI Theory.
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 | Ideas and Evidence: Critical Reflections on MBTI Theory and Practice by Rowan Bayne
Buy new: $18.95 / Used from: $14.90 Research based book on personality type i.e. there's many references to journal papers, mainly the journal of psychological type. MBTI Theory.
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 | Compass of the Soul: Archetypal Guides to a Fuller Life by John L. Giannini
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $17.98 A lot of hypotheses generated in this book, makes for interesting reading. Jungian Theory.
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| Jung's Typology in Perspective by Angelo Spoto
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $6.89 Puts Jungians typology theory in the context of Jung's broader concepts of psychological functioning. Jungian Theory.
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 | Essentials of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Assessment (Essentials of Psychological Assessment) by Naomi L. Quenk
Buy new: $28.18 / Used from: $17.87 Mainly for practitioners but useful insights on type dynamics and MBTI dynamics in some of the chapters. MBTI theory.
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 | Psychological Types (Collected Works of C.G. Jung Vol.6) by C. G. Jung
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $8.95 The original book on jungian typology.
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 | Survival Games Personalities Play by Eve Delunas
Buy used from: $45.34 Temperament but looking at problematic bits of temperament.
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 | Beside Ourselves: Our Hidden Personality in Everyday Life by Naomi L. Quenk
Buy used from: $2.40 A look at the inferior function. MBTI theory.
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 | Lectures on Jung's Typology (Seminar Series) by Marie-Louise Von Franz
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $6.43 A look at the inferior and feeling functions. Jungian typology.
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| MBTI Manual (A guide to the development and use of the Myers Briggs type indicator) (3rd ed #6111) by Isabel Briggs Myers
Buy used from: $68.98 Some overlap with 'gifts differing' by the same author but a great source of valid information. MBTI theory.
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 | Type Talk: The 16 Personality Types That Determine How We Live, Love, and Work by Otto Kroeger
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $1.63 The ultimate piece of 'popular literature' on the subject. MBTI / temperament theory.
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 | Mapping the Mind by Rita Carter
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $6.45 Chapter 2 gives information on some of the neurological basis for personality differences.
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 | Psychological Types at Work: An MBTI Perspective: Psychology@Work Series (Psychology at Work) by Rowan Bayne
Buy new: $34.40 / Used from: $49.44 Research based book for practical use of MBTI theory in the workplace.
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 | The Pygmalion Project, Vol. III: The Idealist (Love & Coercion Among the Types) by Stephen E. Montgomery
Buy new: $10.21 / Used from: $3.04 If you know about temperament and your own personality tye, the pygmalion project books should contain enjoyable excerpts. Temperament theory.
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| Journal of Psychological Type Vol 18
Buy used from: $7.99 Copies of the journal of psychological type are available on amazon. MBTI theory.
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 | Conscious Orientation (International Library of Psychology) by J Van Der Hoop
Buy new: $360.00 / Used from: $328.07 A collectors book on consciencious orientation.
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 | Psychetypes: A new way of exploring personality by Michael Malone
Buy used from: $0.20 Interesting book about psychological modes of operating.
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 | True Loves: Finding the Soul in Love Relationships by Alex T. Quenk
Buy new: $16.95 / Used from: $0.60 Archetypes (which seems to be temperament) and love. Jungian / temperament.
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 | Intimacy and Type: A Practical Guide for Improving Relationships for Couples and Counselors by Jane Hardy Jones
Buy used from: $51.18 A book on type theory and relationships. Jungian / MBTI.
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 | The Character of Organizations, Updated Edition: Using Personality Type in Organization Development by William Bridges
Buy used from: $3.00 A book which uses Myers-Briggs Type Theory to 'type' places. (as opposed to people)
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 | Please Understand Me: Character and Temperament Types by David Keirsey
Buy new: $10.76 / Used from: $0.01 Worth getting as well as Please Understand Me II due to the importance of the content. Temperament theory.
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 | Personality: What Makes You the Way You Are by Daniel Nettle
Buy used from: $6.74 Takes a look at the Five-Factor model of personality. Quite a scientific piece of work compared to most of the others.
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 | Personality by C A Meier
Buy new: $18.90 / Used from: $1.50 The first part of the book discusses personality theory. The second part discusses individuation -A jungian term for personal development. Well worth a read.
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 | The Introvert Advantage: How to Thrive in an Extrovert World by Marti Olsen Laney Psy.D.
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $4.99 Chapter 3 is particularly good from a scientific perspective. The book doesn't deal with personality theory in full but is well written and researched.
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