Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type
- 3h 59m
- Isabel Briggs Myers, Peter B. Myers
- Intercultural Press
- 1995
The classic work on the 16 major personality types as identified in the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.
If you have wondered about the diverse and often startlingly different ways that people important to you, or just people around you, seem to look at the world or react to situations, this book will interest you. If you have a problem understanding or communicating with someone you care about—a parent, a child, a co-worker, or a significant other—the ideas in this book just may be what you have been looking for.
About the Authors
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.
In this Book
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Publisher's Foreword
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Publisher's Note
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An Orderly Reason for Personality Differences
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Extensions of Jung's Theory
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Type Tables for Comparison and Discovery
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Effect of the EI Preference
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Effect of the SN Preference
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Effect of the TF Preference
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Effect of the JP Preference
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Extraverted and Introverted Forms of the Processes Compared
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Descriptions of the Sixteen Types
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Use of the opposites
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Type and Marriage
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Type and Early Learning
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Learning Styles
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Type and Occupation
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Type and the Task of Growing up
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Good Type Development
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Obstacles to Type Development
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Motivation for Type Development in Children
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Going on from Wherever You are
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Endnotes
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References
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Full-Size Type Table
