Personality Types, Don Richard Riso
Personality Types, Don Richard Riso
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Personality Types
Using the Enneagram for Self-Discovery

Author: Don Richard Riso, Russ Hudson

Narrator: James Anderson Foster

Unabridged: 20 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/14/2017

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Personality Types has become the indispensable resource in the field of Enneagram studies, as well as a cherished classic in the literature of personal growth around the world. This second edition is not only a monumental intellectual achievement, it is a landmark in the history of psychology and human understanding.

For the first time, the landscape of human personality has been completely mapped out—from the high-functioning states of ego transcendence to the depths of pathology. Unequaled in the Enneagram field, the authors provide precise and comprehensive systematic descriptions of each personality type, as well as new, expanded descriptions of each type's major subtypes and its Directions of Integration and Disintegration.

This entirely revised edition reveals new insights, including the authors' revolutionary discovery, the Core Dynamics, which give the specific motivations, attitudes, fears, and desires at each of the nine internal Levels of Development for each type, as well as the parental influences on each type, an expanded history of the Enneagram, new material on the Instinctual Variants, and much, much more.

About Don Richard Riso

Don Richard Riso is the foremost writer and developer of the Enneagram in the world today. The most-published and bestselling author in the field, he is an internationally recognized authority on the subject. He is the president of Enneagram Personality Types, Inc., and founder of The Enneagram Institute. He has been teaching the Enneagram for more than twenty years, pioneering a revolutionary new approach to ego psychology through his 1977 discovery of the Levels of Development. His four best-selling books are available in British, German, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, and French editions. Riso was a Jesuit for thirteen years, holds degrees in English and philosophy, was elected to the Jesuit Honor Society, Alpha Sigma Nu, and was a Ford Foundation Fellow at Stanford University in communications (social psychology).


Reviews

Goodreads review by K.M. on July 11, 2018

Excellent in-depth information. There’s a ton of good stuff here, although I did feel the book too much emphasis on a descent into psychosis rather than a rise to health.......more

Goodreads review by Richard on February 05, 2009

this book has taught me to see the world through many different kinds of perspectives. it allows me to enhance my strong feelings of sympathy/empathy because i can better understand where (and why) people are coming from, whether it is a place of fear or anxiety, or just a need for things to be a ce......more

Goodreads review by Dimitris on August 10, 2016

Experience has shown that ... personalities ... may be grouped into various major categories, and for purposes of studying them this is a helpful device. Classifications must never be taken too seriously—they ruin much thinking—but the fear to use them has prevented much more thinking. —Karl A. Menni......more

Goodreads review by Brooke on March 26, 2019

I wish I could give this book 10 stars. As someone fairly preoccupied with personal growth, no other book has helped me to learn so much about myself, those closest to me, and my interactions with others. I would highly recommend this book to anyone looking to become more self-aware and to understan......more

Goodreads review by Chris on April 16, 2011

Wow! If you have a desire to understand who you are, what drives you, and why, this is a powerful book. For self-understanding, I can't think of anything better. It changed my life when I first discovered this gem. Meyers and Briggs have nothing on Riso and Hudson when it comes to support for self-u......more