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Personality Type: An Owner’s Manual by Lenore Thomson
Thomson has years of experience both writing about theology & psychoanalysis and teaching university courses on psychological type. She brings her wealth of experience to this comprehensive book on Myers-Briggs Type. She uses commonly known cultural figures and familiar cartoon strips to provide examples of a cognitive process or type. If you are a trekkie and love type, you’ll definitely relate to her examples.
She shows a depth of understanding of the 16 types and the 8 cognitive processes. It is a meaty read, enthralling and dense with information, insight, and perspective.
I find my own thinking refined by reading her work. I’m beyond accepting any book as the whole truth, but her views are well-thought out and supported by examples that give merit to her thoughts.
She ties in the latest brain research to the 8 Jungian functions showing that 4 functions are left-brained and 4 are right brained. Each type has functions in both the right and left brain hemispheres. Our dominant and auxiliary exist in one half, our tertiary and inferior in the other. No wonder when we operate out of our 3rd and 4th functions we seem and feel like a different person!
Put this one on your wish list, if you can wait that long.
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