Please understand me
Subtitle: character & temperament types
By: David Keirsey, Marilyn Bates
Contributors: Bates, Marilyn M.
Edition: 5th ed.
Publisher: Distributed by Prometheus Nemesis Book Co.; Prometheus Nemesis Book Company; Prometheus Nemesis
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Del Mar, CA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780960695409
Subjects: Persönlichkeit; Typologie; Typology (Psychology); Typologie (Psychologie); Character; Interpersonal Relations; Caractère; Intelligenz; Tempérament; Charakter; Temperament; Psychotherapy; Psychologie; Personnalité
Description: After presenting a brief rundown of 20th-century psychology movements, Keirsey and Bates encourage you to take the 70-question "Keirsey Temperament Sorter," a sort of mini-Myers-Briggs test that places you in 1 of 16 personality types. Like the Myers-Briggs system, this test sorts your personality into groups of extraversion/introversion (E/I), sensation/intuition (S/N), thinking/feeling (T/F), and perceiving/judging (P/J). Unlike the Myers-Briggs system, Please Understand Me also presents four easy-to-remember temperament types--Dionysian (freedom first), Epimethean (wants to be useful), Promethean (desires power), and Apollonian (searches for self)--that underlie the 16 possible personalities identified by the test. The book then delves into a detailed analysis of each type, with sections on mates, children, and leaders. An appendix paints portraits of the 16 possible personality types.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-210).
Table of contents: title: Different drums and different drummers; title: The four temperaments; title: Mating and temperament; title: Temperament in children; title: Temperament in leading; title: Appendix: the sixteen types.