Dynamics of Personality Type : Understanding and Applying Jung's Cognitive Processes (Understanding yourself and others...

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 60 pages
• Published by: Telos Publications
• Edition: 1st Edition January 7, 2000
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0966462459
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0966462456
• Book Dimensions: 10.7 x 8 x 0.3 inches
• Weighs: 5.6 ounces

Product Description
Part of the Understanding Yourself and OthersTM Series

In Dynamics of Personality Type, content expert Dr. Linda Berens introduces you to Jung's eight cognitive processes and the roles they play within your personality type. You are guided to explore the processes through applications to learning, problem solving, and communicating.

This book provides the user with . . .

* an introduction to Jung's eight cognitive processes
* an interactive process to help individuals discover their preferred pattern of processes.
* worksheets to help individuals better understand themselves and others, with applications to learning, problem solving, and communicating.
* full page descriptions for each process with examples and exercises
* an overview on the roles the processes play in our life
* descriptions for discovering your preferred learning style
* worksheet for cracking the MBTI code.
* appendices for a brief overview of the Essential Qualities of the 16 Type Patterns.

Back Cover Copy
"The self
is our life's goal,
for it is
the completest
expression of
that fateful
combination we
call individuality."
-Carl Jung

Like trees in a forest, we depend on processes to sustain our very being. It is easy to see the water on a leaf of a tree and be reminded of some of the tree's life-sustaining processes like evaporation and photosynthesis. Humans have more than physical requirements of air, food and water. We have psychological and social needs. We have ways of processing information that keep us psychologically alive. We are not like the trees--planted firmly in the ground and at the mercy of the forces of nature and dependent on the cycles of rain for that which nurtures us. We have some conscious control over our life-sustaining processes--if only we understand them and rise to the challenge of using this understanding in our daily lives.

While there is consistency to our personality type pattern, it is also fluid. We are dynamic--adaptable and responsive to the requirements of the moment. And we are constantly developing-- growing and evolving in relation to the demands placed on us. Understanding the dynamics of our personality can help us better express our own individuality, take charge of our learning and growth, and get ourselves out of the swamps and quicksands of interpersonal relationships and life's challenges.

Dynamics of Personality Type: Understanding and Applying Jung's Cognitive Processes takes you deeper on your journey of self-discovery. It explains how you access and gather information and how you evaluate that information. These are the two basic processes you use every minute of every day in every situation. They are your ways of "knowing" that sustain you. They are also the tools you have to help you step outside the limits of your inborn tendencies and the environmental forces that can unconsciously shape your behavior. This book requires your active participation to unlock the dynamics behind the pattern of your own individuality. Use it to help you achieve your life's goal--the complete expression of you.

Reader Reviews
This booklet explains how to translate between people's MBTI types such as "INTP" and their cognitive processes such as "dominant Ti with auxiliary Ne." The explanations of the cognitive processes themselves are the worst I've ever seen. For instance, Ti is described by reference to apples as follows: "Think about those apples again. What kinds of things are apples anyway? List the categories that apples fall into." This is incorrect, has nothing to do with Ti (which is a judging function), and promises to be misleading to anyone not already very familiar with MBTI. Some reviewers have noted that other books don't talk about cognitive processes. This is incorrect. Isabel Briggs Myers' Gifts Differing explains cognitive processes and is as a whole an excellent book. Lenore Thomson's Personality Type: An Owner's Manual focuses specifically on explaining the cognitive processes in their dominant and auxiliary roles and does an excellent job of it. Naomi L. Quenk's Beside Ourselves focuses on cognitive processes in their inferior and tertiary roles, and also does an excellent job of it. If the price of those books is what's making you consider buying this booklet, then consider that free explanations of how to translate MBTI types to cognitive processes exist online (teamtechnology in the UK is one site at time of this writing) and that this booklet has nothing else to offer. There's no reason to buy this unless your intention is to mislead someone about the nature of the cognitive processes. As an illustration of the value of this booklet, consider that I gave it as a gift to a friend of mine who is also familiar with MBTI, are who upon reading the alleged description of his dominant function (he's ENTJ), proceeded to put the booklet in the trash. It's that bad. (I'm INTP.)