Gifts Differing
Subtitle: Understanding Personality Type
By: Isabel Briggs Myers with Peter B. Myers.
Contributors: Myers, Peter B.
Publisher: Davies-Black Pub.
Published: May 25 1995, c1980
Place of publication: Palo Alto, Calif.
Language: eng
Format: paperback ; charts
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780891060741
Subjects: Typology (Psychology); Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
First sentence: It is fashionable to say that the individual is unique.
Description: From back cover: Gifts Differing has helped to define our understanding of personality. Written by the creator of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator inventory -- the most widely used personality profile in history and survey you likely took in college or at your job -- Gifts Differing explains the essential personality types described by the MBTI and their practical significance in your daily life.
Drawing on concepts originated by Carl Jung, this book distinguishes four categories of personality styles and shows how these qualities determine the way you perceive the world and come to conclusions about what you've seen. It then explains what they mean for your success, in school, at a job, in a career, or in your personal relationships.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Originally published: Palo Alto, CA : Consulting Psychologists Press, c1980.
Table of contents: title: Preface
pagenum: xi; title: Publisher's note
pagenum: xvii; label: I
title: Theory; label: 1
title: An Orderly Reason for Personality Differences
pagenum: 1; label: 2
title: Extensions of Jung's Theory
pagenum: 17; label: II
title: Effects of Preferences on Personality; label: 3
title: Type Tables for Comparison and Discovery
pagenum: 27; label: 4
title: Effect of the EI Preference
pagenum: 53; label: 5
title: Effect of the SN Preference
pagenum: 57; label: 6
title: Effect of the TF Preference
pagenum: 65; label: 7
title: Effect of the JP Preference
pagenum: 69; label: 8
title: Extraverted and Intoverted Forms of the Process Compared
pagenum: 77; label: 9
title: Descriptions of the Sixteen Types
pagenum: 83; label: III
title: Practical Implications of Type; label: 10
title: Use of the Opposites
pagenum: 115; label: 11
title: Type and marriage
pagenum: 123; label: 12
title: Type and Early Learning
pagenum: 131; label: 13
title: Learning Styles
pagenum: 139; label: 14
title: Type and Occupation
pagenum: 149; label: IV
title: Dynamics of Type Development; label: 15
title: Type and the Task of Growing Up
pagenum: 167; label: 16
title: Good Type Development
pagenum: 173; label: 17
title: Obstacles to Type Development
pagenum: 181; label: 18
title: Motivation for Type Development in Children
pagenum: 185; label: 19
title: Going on from Wherever You Are
pagenum: 191; title: Endnotes
pagenum: 203; title: References
pagenum: 205; title: About Isabel Briggs Myers
pagenum: 207; title: Full-Size Type Table
pagenum: 212; title: Index
pagenum: 215