Kevin Kell
43 / Counseling, Coaching, and Psychotherapy / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: active imagination, adolescence, auxiliary function, ENFP, ESTJ, extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted thinking (Te), Hestia, individuation, inferior function, introverted feeling (Fi), James Hillman, John Beebe, Kevin Kell, Lenore Thomson, one-sidedness, panic attacks, phobias, power complex, tension of opposites, transcendent function
April 25, 2021
Many clients enter treatment because their psyche is “failing” to accommodate itself to their one-sided will. They are cut off from the self-regulating functions of their unconscious and the resulting symptoms have induced so much suffering that they are forced to stop their plans, enter therapy, and work through the blockage. The power complex wants a better hold on the psyche.
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Shirl Terrell
37 / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: addiction, Animus, auxiliary function, ENFJ, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted sensation (Se), introverted intuition (Ni), introverted thinking (Ti), ISFP, midlife, opioids, paranoia, parent archetype, possession, puer/puella aeternus, schizophrenia, Shirl Terrell, Trickster
January 22, 2019
My sister’s life illustrates the impact of a lack of positive parental guidance on the development of personality and what happens if the inner parent fails to develop. Family tragedy deprived Christin of a compass with which to navigate psychic turbulence during midlife. While few people succumb to such crises, many lack the tenacity to face them.
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Carol Shumate
36 / Culture and Cultural Typology
Tags: archetypal possession, authenticity, auxiliary function, Bruce Willis, collective, complex, Die Hard, Donald Trump, election, ESFP, ESTP, extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), Hamlet, Han Solo, Hillary Clinton, individuation, inferior function, INTJ, introverted intuition (Ni), introverted thinking (Ti), ISFP, ISTP, Jax Heller, Johnny Depp, judging function, judgment, leaders, leadership, Mafia, mob, perception, persona, persuasiveness, Pirates of the Caribbean, Polonius, presidency, president, projection, Robert Boozer, Sons of Anarchy, spontaneity, Star Wars, The Godfather, The Matrix, The Sopranos, Tony Soprano, type bias
October 4, 2018
Often extraverted sensing leaders are considered more authentic than other types. Trump’s supporters viewed him as trustworthy (“honest,” “outside of the political corruption,” and “not a liar”) while they viewed Clinton as untrustworthy (“belongs behind bars,” “cannot be trusted,” and “nothing but lies”). Even Clinton’s own supporters expressed concern about her trustworthiness.
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Both articles in this issue describe how parental roles can affect type development. Typologically, one indicator of a dysfunctional parental complex can be an under-developed auxiliary function, and this suggests that a positive parental complex could foster the development of the auxiliary function. … What parental influences on type development have you witnessed? What do you notice in your own typology?
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the Editors, Mark & Carol
09 / Professional Development for Type-Practitioners
Tags: auxiliary function, Carol Shumate, dominant function, INFJ, INFP, INTJ, INTP, Introverts, Isabel Myers, ISFJ, ISFP, ISTJ, ISTP, Judging types, judgment, Mark Hunziker, Perceiving types, perception
February 1, 2012
Jung considered all of the types that the MBTI® code identifies as I—J to be Perceiving types, and all I—Ps to be Judging types, because his use of the terms focuses on the dominant. Myers, however, focused on the extraverted function. So, are I—Js really ‘organized, scheduled, and decisive’ and I—Ps ‘spontaneous, casual, and flexible?’
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John Beebe
04 / Archetypes / Organizations, Teams, and Career Development / Research, Theory, and History
Tags: auxiliary function, Buddhist, complexes, Dependent Origination, dominant function, ESFP, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted sensation (Se), Good Parent archetype, Hero archetype, Hewlett-Packard, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted sensation (Si), Isabel Briggs Myers, John Beebe, teams, The Wizard of Oz
March 1, 2011
We can oppose this image of the San Francisco Giants to the kind of team we see in some corporations where the different members of the team try so hard to maintain the same corporate persona . . . On such a team, nobody shows any individual peculiarities . . . and I’m sure that no real consciousness can emerge from behind such a mask.
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