'thanks for sharing your experiences :)   i am certainly not saying forms of therapy other than depth psychotherapy have less significance in general. i think many people with psychological issues...|||it is odd because it contrasts with my experience :)   i don't think 5s or any other type are so introverted that while they are actually the 3rd most common type (acc. to the stats you quoted),...|||I certainly put my impressionistic understanding above the statistics here. To say that type 5 is more common than type 1, 3, 4, 7, 8 and 9 seems really odd.|||have you been to therapy?   by therapy, i mean long-term, depth psychotherapy - inclusive of psychodynamic, humanistic, existential and jungian therapies. the other kinds of therapy, i feel, do not...|||Shark, I'd say the same to this as I did to Kaleidoscope. If they were equally distributed across the population, we would know an equal number of each type, roughly speaking.   As for areas - if...|||what work do you do? i want to get there :D|||if types 4, 5 (not sure about 8 and 9) are not rare, we should know as many people of these types as types 2, 3, 7, and 6 - right? from my experience and apparently, the experience of others who...|||(deleted)|||Going by personal experience, I would say that type 5 is the rarest type to find. Next would be 4, then 9.   I'm 28 and I've known the enneagram for 10 years. I'm a 4w5 and I have never met someone...|||63162  I often get told how I look different. The adjectives people use for my facial expression are - poker faced, deep, very serious, calm, detached, distant - in an alternate world. The facial...|||I am studying psychology, and the more I read about the psychodynamics of the schizoid personality, the more I find it fits me - introversion, detachment, interest in spiritual / philosophical...|||Is isolation a theme for us INFPs? I find myself often feeling unable to connect with many people, even friends I've known for years. I see myself withdrawing because those others don't really...|||Not at all. I feel stuck in darkness, and it's been this way for at least 2 and a half years. I'm going to therapy and I hope that helps. I need to look for a job but am not really doing much about...|||when i meet people anew, specially in a new class, or workplace, or something, i am often asked this question. recently i joined a class where everyone quite younger than me, and i don't quite feel...|||INFPs, has anyone told you that you have a blank expression on your face, that you are poker-faced?   I've been considering being a psychotherapist, and one of the things that makes me go against...|||do INFPs have serious issues with anger? in my teens, i would rarely get angry at people and when i did, i found it hard to express my anger at them if i didn't know them closely. but for those i was...|||thanks! i think i use my Ne quite a bit, and decently, so that's not really a problem.   i think i understand what you say about developing your weaker functions 'backed up' by your strong...|||what is the relationship between one's primary jungian type and personal growth?   when i look back at my life, i see that my talents and joys are something i owe to my type - introverted feeling...|||How would INFPs fare as journalists?   I worked as a reporter for a magazine on education once, for a little less than a year. I enjoyed the writing bit, and the fact that we were a small team...|||i too find both these fields quite exciting and am planning to study psychology.   what do you think in the INFP makes him (or her) a healer?   i think it is the introverted feeling, which can...|||INFPs are often described as artistic.   I don't consider myself an artist, but I have a strong interest in art - cinema, poetry, music, especially classical music, and so on. I often sing and...|||what am i meant to do, why am i here, what is my true self? INFPs deal with these questions the most, i suppose, although it is really a question fundamental to all human beings  does a calling...|||You seem to have had a bitter experience, sort of.   I think all 4 things you point out are really Fe - incredibly nurturing, social butterflies in a way that feels superficial to INFPs, people...|||Thanks! I wish some more ENFJs or INFPs would comment on this.|||so far the results say about 50% are in their teens|||I'm 27.   My impression is that most of the members here would be in their late teens or early twenties. I used to frequent such forums in my late teens. I used to do it to get a better...|||:)|||Have any INFPs here been in close relationships with ENFJs?   This January, I started one of the most important and intimate relationships of my life - I entered therapy with a psychoanalytic...|||:) ... you are welcome     that actual disorders are only treated by psychiatrists - this is not true, as i said above. but, i would say that statistically, if someone is slitting their wrists,...|||well, often you know what you deeply want, but you aren't sure if that is just a sentimental choice that you will regret later. sometimes being practical is better for your own long term happiness.|||one addition - i know that in the past in the US, you had to have a medical degree to train as a psychoanalyst. my impression is that this is no longer the case, but do make sure. check with the...|||I would rethink what you say about psychiatrists seeing people with 'real disorders' and psychologists not seeing such people. I think psychologists also treat people with real 'disorders', which may...|||Might INFPs be the most indecisive type?   I know that as an introverted feeler, my inferior function is extroverted thinking, which is central to deciding things, implementing them, and in...|||So you mean introverted feeling, and introverted feeling combined with extraverted intuition, are neurotic characteristics?   Defining neuroticism is complicated, but I would think that all types...|||this is interesting. i think jung associated feeling specifically with women, and not just with femininity. i do think it is possible that at jung's time it was women who ended up being introverted...|||How did you discover your type?   I am 27 now. I have been interested in MBTI and Jungian types since I was 17, off and on. However, it is only in the last 3 months or so that I feel certain that I...|||I am an INFP and I find myself to be rather androgynous. I am a male but I am not very masculine, but not exactly effeminate either. My ESTP, uber-masculine friend and I are a quite a contrast...|||This is an extension of the thread I started about INFPs and philosophy.   I've always had an ambivalent relationship to academia. I love reading, and my room is full of books - mostly on religion...|||How does one come to be the type one is?   Is it a result of the experiences one has as a child?   Or is one born with it - not meaning that type is in one's genes, but in an Eastern...|||I wonder what the attitude of INFPs to studying philosophy is.   Throughout my childhood and teens, I was always called 'the philosophical type' by family. The little glimpses I had of the Buddha,...|||thanks, both for your replies. that's good feedback and gives me something to think about. :)|||I'm an INFP who has been habituated to live very much in the intellectual world. I'm about to make a major career decision.   I've been fascinated with psychotherapy - Jung, Freud, Frankl, Rogers,...|||Hey Psilo.   I just read the descriptions of the Jungian types you posted from J H Van der Hoop's book 'Conscious Orientation'. Thanks very much for posting these, they were very helpful!   I was...'