Please understand me : character & temperament types / David Keirsey, Marilyn Bates.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keirsey, David, author.

Bates, Marilyn M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Typology (Psychology).

Temperament.

Personality.

Interpersonal relations.

Psychotherapy.

Character.

Interpersonal Relations.

Medical Subjects:

Interpersonal Relations.

Psychotherapy.

Character.

Temperament.

Personality.

Physical Description:

210 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Edition:

Fourth edition.

Distribution:

Del Mar, CA : Distributed by Prometheus Nemesis, [1984]

Summary:

After presenting a brief rundown of 20th-century psychology movements, Keirsey and Bates encourage you to take the 70-question "Keirsey Temperament Sorter," a sort of mini-Myers-Briggs test that places you in 1 of 16 personality types. Like the Myers-Briggs system, this test sorts your personality into groups of extraversion/introversion (E/I), sensation/intuition (S/N), thinking/feeling (T/F), and perceiving/judging (P/J). Unlike the Myers-Briggs system, Please Understand Me also presents four easy-to-remember temperament types--Dionysian (freedom first), Epimethean (wants to be useful), Promethean (desires power), and Apollonian (searches for self)--that underlie the 16 possible personalities identified by the test. The book then delves into a detailed analysis of each type, with sections on mates, children, and leaders. An appendix paints portraits of the 16 possible personality types

Contents:

Different drums and different drummers

The four temperaments

Mating and temperament

Temperament in children

Temperament in leading

Appendix: the sixteen types.

Notes:

Contains extra scoring sheets in back.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-210).

ISBN:

0960695400

9780960695409

OCLC:

49668341