Houghton Mifflin Electronic Licensing - Personality Types, Revised: Using the Enneagram for Self-Discovery by Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson

Personality Types, Revised:
Using the Enneagram for Self-Discovery
by Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson

"The Enneagram is an extraordinary framework for understanding more about ourselves. No matter from which point of view we approach it, we discover fresh conjunctions of new and old ideas." So writes Don Riso in this expanded edition of his classic interpretation of the Enneagram, the ancient psychological system used to understand the human personality. In addition to updating the descriptions of the nine personality types, Personality Types, Revised greatly expands the accompanying guidelines and, for the first time, uncovers the Core Dynamics, or Levels of Development, within each type. This skeletal system provides far more information about the inner tension and movements of the nine personalities than has previously been published. This increased specificity will allow therapists, social workers, personnel managers, students of the Enneagram, and general readers alike to use it with much greater precision as they unlock the secrets of self-understanding, and thus self-transformation.

Key Features:

• Precise descriptions of each personality type
• Expanded descriptions of each major subtype
• Describes each of nine internal levels of development for each type
• History of the Enneagram

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Because such a vast amount of territory is covered by human nature, it would be useful to have an accurate map of that familiar yet ever-unexplored territory. It would be helpful to have a reliable means of charting who we are and where we are going so that we will not lose our way.

We believe the Enneagram (pronounced "ANY-a-gram") is the map of human nature that people have long sought. Although the Enneagram symbol is ancient, as are many of the roots of its psychological theory, it is remarkably contemporary because human nature has not changed. The Enneagram, which has been transmitted to us from a variety of history's rich spiritual and philosophical traditions, represents a profound understanding of human nature, something needed as much now as it was in the past. The Enneagram presented here is a distillation of teachings from several profound schools of spiritual wisdom, combined with insights from modern psychology. It is at once ancient and modern, representing a marvelous and dynamic synthesis of old and new. The purpose of this book is to introduce the general reader to this remarkable system.