From: noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring)
Subject: Summary of Available MBTI Resource Material
Summary: Collected from the responses to an early post on a.p.p.
Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 22:19:15 GMT

Hello,

In response to an inquiry a couple of months ago on alt.psychology.personality
asking for resource material on the MBTI, many people contributed.  Following
this introduction is a cleaned up summary of all that collected net.wisdom.

If you'd like to add to this list, or correct glaring errors, please let me
know.

Much thanks to the following people who sent me their recommendations (listed
in no particular order):

Sigrid E. Mortensen
Linda Murphy
Roger D. Nelson
Mark Dolson
Susan Lynds
Frank Fujita
Peter Marks
Joe Butt
"Saint" O'Brien
J. Storrs Hall
Antti Juustila

(If somehow I did not include your name in the above list, and you did
contribute something, I apologize.  Keeping track of all this information
is not easy.)


So, without further ado, here it is.  Enjoy.

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                       MYERS-BRIGGS TYPE INDICATOR
                            RESOURCE MATERIALS

                                Version 1
                             5-January-1993

                 Contact:  Jon Noring, noring@netcom.com




BOOKS

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"Please Understand Me, An Essay on Temperament Styles", by David Keirsey and
Marilyn Bates.  Promethean Books, California, 1978.

One of the more widely known books describing the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.
It includes a self-test (many do not consider it to be as good as the "real"
MBTI test).
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"Portraits of Temperament", David Keirsey.  Prometheus Nemesis Book Company,
P.O. Box 2748, Del Mar, CA 92014, 1987.
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"Gifts Differing", Isabel Briggs-Meyer (with Peter Myers).  Consulting
Psychologists Press, 1980 ISBN 0-89106-011-1 (pb) 0-89106-015-4 (hb).

The real "Please Understand Me," from the horse's mouth (i.e., the daughter
in the original mother/daughter pair).  A good bridge between Jung and PUM,
but no self-test included.
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"LifeTypes", by Sandra Hirsh and Jean Kummerow, ISBN 0-446-38823-8 USA and
ISBN 0-446-38824-6 Canada.  Warner Books, Inc., 1989.
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"Facing Your Type", George J. Schemel and James A. Borbely.  Published by
Typofile Press, Church Road, Box 223, Wernersville, PA 19565.
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"Type Talk" and "Type Talk at Work".   Otto Kroeger and Janet M. Thuesen.
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc.

Some comments:  Easy to read and informative, includes profiles for each of the
sixteen types.
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"Psychological Types", C.G. Jung, H.G. Baynes (translator).  Bollingen Series,
Princeton U.P., 1971 ISBN 0-691-01813-8 (pb) 0-691-09770-4 (hb).

This book (originally written in the early 1920's) inspired Briggs & Myers to
create the MBTI test.  If you've only read "Please Understand Me", then you'll
have some trouble making the correlation.
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"An Introduction To Theories of Personality", B.R. Hergenhahn.  Prentice-Hall,
New Jersey, 1990.
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"An Empirical Investigation of the Jungian Typology", by Leon Gorlow, Norman R.
Simonson, and Herbert Krauss.  In "Theories of Personality, Primary Sources
and Research", editors: Gardner Lindzey, Calvin S. Hall, Martin Manosevitz,
Robert E. Krieger Publishing Company, Florida, 1988.
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"The Measurement of Learning Style:  A Critique of Four Assessment Tools",
Timothy J. Sewall, University of Wisconsin, 1986.
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"Dichotomies of the Mind:  A System Science Model of the Mind and Personality",
Walter Lowen (with Lawrence Miike). John Wiley, 1982 ISBN 0-471-08331-3.

A bizarre, but intriguing attempt to "correct" the MBTI's inherently 'F' focus
to a 'hyper-T' perspective.
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PERIODICAL LITERATURE

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"Journal of Psychological Type".  The official research journal of the
Association for Psychological Type, 9140 Ward Parkway, Kansas City, MO 64114.

One of the few outlets for research on the MBTI as 'real' personality
psychologists usually don't publish on it.
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"Mental Measurements Yearbook" (MMY).  Has lists of refereces to articles in
refereed journals in which the MBTI test is used.  An excellent review of
MBTI is given by Anthony DeVito in the 9th MMY, and two additional reviews
in the 10th MMY.  The recently published 11th MMY does not include these.
The MMY are available in the reference section of most college and university
libraries.
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OTHER

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Consulting Psychologists Press is the publishing arm of the Center for
Applications of Psychological Type.  It distributes the official MBTI tests
and official interpretation guides, a thick "Atlas of Types" which gives
empirical type distributions for a wide range of population categories
(e.g., policemen, system analysts, high-school students), and many studies.
They can probably give you a good bibliography upon request.
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"Madness and Temperament: A Systems View of Psychopathology and Treatment"

An audiocassette package consisting of verbatim, unedited presentations from a
seminar at the Holiday Inn, March 4&5, 1989, by Dr. Eve Delunas.  Ordering
information:  InfoMedix, Garden Grove, CA 92643, (714) 530-3454.
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Now, if you're just dying to know what INFJ stands for, be brave, e-mail me,
and I'll send you some information.  It WILL be worth the inquiry, I think.

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