This question comes up frequently
in my coaching practice.
Relationship experiences
range the spectrum from paradise
to nightmare, and people often
want to do some social engineering in
order to gain control. In many situations,
type is seen as a life saver. I confess – it
felt like that to me!
A self-help junkie, I read David
Keirsey’s book, Please Understand Me,
in one day while answering phones at a
temporary job assignment. Apparently
it did not have much impact.
The book
that hooked me was 16 Ways to Love
Your Lover (Kroeger and Thuesen, 1996)
which I stumbled across at another temp
job. It analyzed and explained the failure
of every one of my relationships. That
got my attention since relationships are
the most important thing in the world to
me. Speaking as a Catalyst, I was hooked.
In 2006, Linda Berens developed new
names for the four Temperaments which
highlight the core values of each...
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Originally published in the Association for Psychological Type International Bulletin of Psychological Type, Vol. 30, No. 3 (2007)
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