Rebecca Kilicaslan
45 / Archetypes
Tags: auxiliary, Demonic/ Daimonic, dominant, Donald Kalsched, dreams, ENFP, Extraverted Intuition, extraverted sensation, inferior function, introverted feeling, Introverted Intuition, introverted thinking, Opposing Personality, protector/persecutor, Rebecca Kilicaslan, Trickster
April 19, 2022

Suppression of my intuitive function has appeared symptomatically in the loss of my voice, both in dreams and while performing as a vocalist. On a broader level, my voicelessness has materialized in interpersonal difficulties, such as a hesitancy to advocate for my own perspective, impostor syndrome, and a distrust in my instincts and intuitions.
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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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Soha Al-Jurf
41 / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: Animus, archetypal father, Cassandra, Cronos, Demonic/ Daimonic, dominant, dreams, ego, ENFJ, ENFP, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted sensing (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), feminine, Hero, individuation, inferior, introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensing (Si), ISTJ, Mother, Saturn, shadow, Soha Al-Jurf, superior, voice, Witch
September 16, 2020

Cassandra represents the difficulty of expressing one’s own truth in a way that is persuasive and influential in the world, particularly a truth that is not androcentric. The weakening of the voice of the dream ego represents the suppression and repression of the feminine that results from continuing to rely on old ways of exerting influence.
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Mark Ransom
37 / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: archetypal, balance, demon/daemon, dialogue, ENFP, extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), Feeling, individuation, INTP, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted thinking (Ti), Mark Ransom, Self, soul, The Mostest, vocation
January 22, 2019

The dynamics of creative process and psychological wellbeing are such that creative artists are often overcome by the demonic. From Nietzsche’s Zarathustra to Curt Cobain’s Nirvana, there is an artistic star swallowed by the unconscious every week. But the arts can also be a type of savior—a place for us to process our darkness and not become it.
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Carol Shumate
34 / Archetypes / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: anima/animus, bipolar disorder, Carol Shumate, Cervantes, conscious competence ladder, Don Quixote, eight-function/eight-archetype model, enantiodromia, ENFP, Eternal Child, extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), Gargantua and Pantagruel, Hero, inferior function, inferiority, introverted sensation (Si), introverted thinking (Ti), judgment, perception, possession, Rabelais, Sancho Panza, Trickster, Ulrich K. Goldschmidt
April 4, 2018

To have to spend a year in one’s inferior function is like a yearlong time-out for a toddler. I got so bored and desperate with my inferior introverted sensing (Si) function, required to gather and document the data, that I spent many hours asleep in the library. I could have asked Dr. Goldsmith for help, or maybe a mercy killing, but I was too proud to admit difficulty.
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Susan Viglione
23 / Archetypes / Culture and Cultural Typology
Tags: Anima, Captain Kirk, Critical Parent, Daimon, Demon, differentiation, ENFP, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted sensation (Se), individuation, inferior, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensation (Si), introverted thinking (Ti), J. J. Abrams, Opposing Personality, Senex, Star Trek, Star Trek into Darkness, Susan Viglione, Trickster, USS Enterprise, Witch
April 1, 2015

Kirk develops depth and integrity as he learns to harness the power of his dominant function and come to terms with the shadow parts of his personality. Ultimately, he is also able to cultivate his ego-dystonic functions and realize a more integrated and mature self capable of fulfilling his potential for charismatic and visionary leadership.
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Mary Anne Sutherland
19 / Teaching and Learning Styles
Tags: ADD, ADHD, Asperger’s Syndrome, attention deficit, dropouts, education, ENFP, ESTJ, ESTP, Extraversion, Extraverted Intuition, Introversion, introverted feeling, Intuitive, ISFP, ISTJ, learning disability, Mary Anne Sutherland, memory, misdiagnosis, NVLD, pseudo-ADD, Sensing, underachievement
April 16, 2014

Delivering education that gets today’s students ready for the modern world must incorporate flexibility, diversification, and individualization. Students have moved past the structure of traditional classrooms. They have different problems, different gifts, and dramatically different brains. Educators need to refocus their efforts on teaching individuals.
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Laurie B. Lippin, Ph.D.
09 / Culture and Cultural Typology / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: anti-Semitism, archetype, Ashkenazi Jew, Carol Pearson, Congress of Racial Equality, CORE, diversity, ENFP, ENTJ, Extraverted Intuition, Feeling, Fi, Hero, introvert, introverted feeling, introverted sensing, Intuitive, ISTJ, Jewish, Jungian, Latina, Laurie Lippin, Magician, MBTI, Ne, Sage, Seeker, Sensing, Si, Wanderer
February 1, 2012

In the MBTI® I found the self-understanding that I had been lacking; I saw myself finally as less of a dilettante than an adaptive explorer, and a powerful implementer of all I had learned. I had been collecting knowledge and skills but had continued to be unclear about my “use of self.” I finally saw my journey as self-actualization.
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Liana Lianov
07 / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: behavior change, Brue, cognitive behavioral therapy, energy balance, ENFP, Extraversion, Extraverted Intuition, Feeling, Fi, fitness, health, health coach, healthy habits, Introversion, introverted feeling, introverted sensing, introverted thinking, Intuition, judging, Liana Lianov, lifestyle medicine, Ne, perceiving, positive psychology, Rollnick, Sensing, Si, stage of change theory, stress, thinking, Ti, trans-theoretical model, type
October 4, 2011

Type enthusiasts may wonder whether we can purposely apply our personality preferences—which are comfortable ‘tools’ to make habit change a little easier. Speaking as a lifestyle medicine physician, as well as a type enthusiast for the past two decades, I believe we can. . . . Type affects what motivates us and how we learn new skills . . .
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Lisa Schuetz
05 / Research, Theory, and History
Tags: Ania Teillard, Bismarck, ENFP, ESFJ, ESFP, ESTJ, extraverted feeling, Extraverted Intuition, extraverted sensing, extraverted thinking, Fe, Fi, Gordon Allport, Graphology, Handwriting, INFP, INTJ, INTP, introverted feeling, Introverted Intuition, introverted sensing, introverted thinking, ISTJ, Lisa Schuetz, Ne, Ni, Se, Si, Te, Ti
May 2, 2011

The blank piece of paper symbolically represents our universe. How we put writing on the paper—how the pen moves across the paper—represents how we see ourselves fitting into life and how we navigate through it. Extraversion is characterized by a tendency toward expansion. There is an emphasis on centrifugal movement (movement away from the body).
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