Bernard Neville
01 / Archetypes / Organizations, Teams, and Career Development
Tags: Aphrodite, Apollo, Apollonian, archetype, Ares, Artemis, Athena, Bernard Neville, Demeter, Dionysian, Dionysos, Eros, Fe, Fi, greek gods, Hades, Hephaistos, Hera, Heracles, Herakles, Hermes, Hero, Hestia, mental processes, Ne, Ni, organizational development, Prometheus, Se, Si, Te, Ti, Trickster, Zeus
October 8, 2010

Organizational behavior, even more than individual, is shaped by myth and unconscious dynamics, rather than by rationality. I have noticed parallels between Jung’s observations of personality type and the gods who were at the centre of the classical Greeks’ understanding of motivation and behavior. The Greek pantheon can provide ways of talking about a wide range of value systems, energies, feeling states, behavior habits . . .
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Laura M. Simon, JD, MBA (ENFJ)
01 / Organizations, Teams, and Career Development
Tags: Beebe, conflict, daemon, daemonic, Daimon, Daimonic, Demon, demonic, ENFJ, ESTJ, extraverted feeling, extraverted thinking, Fe, Fi, introverted feeling, Laura Simon, Te, workplace
October 7, 2010

In the business world I have the privilege and challenge of leading a group of people where our typology is diverse. Sometimes, when we need each other most, we let each other down as the stress ignites the respective shadow functions within each of us. In the scenarios described herein, the ESTJs may have expected me, their ENFJ leader, to respond in crisis with warmth and sensitivity; but the stress of crisis became a game changer . . .
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Katherine W. Hirsh, DPhil
01 / Counseling, Coaching, and Psychotherapy
Tags: American Psychiatric Association, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, DSM, Introversion, introvert, Katherine Hirsh, psychopathology
October 3, 2010

Where in your own life have you seen efforts to pathologize, punish or otherwise stigmatize particular ways of being, including personality preferences?
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