Cash Keahey
36 / Culture and Cultural Typology
Tags: Andrew Jackson, Bernie Sanders, Cash Keahey, democracy, Donald Trump, elitism, ESFP, ESTP, exclusive populism, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), inclusive populism, inflation, INTJ, introverted intuition (Ni), leadership, Lyndon B. Johnson, mob, populism, presidency, president, shadow, Theodore Roosevelt, type development
October 4, 2018

Populism has acquired a negative reputation, and this is especially true now with the presidency of Donald Trump, but many other political leaders have used extraverted sensation tactics and policies to rally the cause of the common man. This is true not only of Andrew Jackson—in whom extraverted sensation (Se) seems to be dominant—but also of Lyndon B. Johnson and Theodore Roosevelt.
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Stephen T. Weed
31 / Research, Theory, and History
Tags: Beebe model, function couplings, function pairs, function-attitude couplings, INFJ, ISTJ, John Beebe, John Giannini, Robert McAlpine, Stephen Weed, Trickster, type development, type research
July 6, 2017

Giannini’s model differs importantly from Myers’ in that it does not restrict us to just one predominant function pair associated with one’s preferred perceiving and judging processes. His model provides a greater degree of flexibility in the developmental expression of type-related behaviors as well as enhanced adaptive power for engaging and responding to our various environments.
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Mark Hunziker
27 / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: ego, ego-dystonic, ego-syntonic, function-attitudes, identity, INTP, Mark Hunziker, shadow, type development, world views
April 6, 2016

Within the function-attitude preference hierarchy for each type, there are three natural groupings which seem to reflect a “Me, Spirit, and Other” delineation and describe our areas of “strength, vulnerability and creativity, and defense,” respectively. Is it more than a coincidence that this configuration has parallels in most traditional world views, as “Earth, Heaven, and Underworld?”
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Is differentiation of an ego-syntonic function-attitude somehow different from differentiation of an ego-dystonic FA? Or maybe differentiation works the same for all function-attitudes and it’s just in the subsequent integration process that the distinction between ego-syntonic and ego-dystonic comes into play. Do we need a more refined understanding of typological development?
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Carol Shumate
24 / Professional Development for Type-Practitioners
Tags: Adam Grant, ambiversion, ambivert, Carol Shumate, confirmation bias, Daniel Pink, differentiation, Extraversion, individuation, Introversion, Jung & Adler & Freud, normal vs. pathological, Sonu Shamdasani, the personal equation, type bias, type development
July 1, 2015

“Ambiversion”—the equal development of extraversion and introversion in an individual—has become a popular notion of late but it has led to some misinterpretations of Jung’s typology—specifically, to an idealization of this in-between state …
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Jung observed that, “The developing personality obeys … only brute necessity; it needs the motivation force of inner and outer fatalities.” Are “outer fatalities” a requisite for growth? Are “inner fatalities” necessarily traumatic and potentially catastrophic? Are there gentler, more positive ways of facilitating development of personality?
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Individuation (which, within the conceptual framework of the type model, is essentially synonymous with ‘type development’) is usually unpleasant, and a positive outcome is far from guaranteed. So why do so many regard it as the psychic purpose of human existence? Why do we do it? What drives us to it? What has been your experience?
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Byron Almen
16 / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: Anima, archetypal, Byron Almen, complex, David Lynch, extraverted sensing (Se), individuation, INLAND EMPIRE, introverted intuiting (Ni), Self, type community, type development
September 3, 2013

To the degree that the type community has engendered awareness of alternative ways of encountering the world, one another, and oneself, it is engaged in a critically important service. Lest we forget, however, that the process of growth is often perilous, it is occasionally useful to remind ourselves of these perils.
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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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Elizabeth and Katherine W. Hirsh
09 / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: Afghanistan, civilian life, combat zone, Elizabeth Hirsh, individuation, Katherine Hirsh, persona, personality type, reintegration, Self, Soldier, transition, type development, warrior
February 1, 2012

Becoming a warrior requires you to shed some aspects of your identity and to take on new ones to fit your new role. Allegiances can be strained as new, family-like bonds are forged with fellow warriors. Individuals on the type development/individuation journey can also experience feelings of isolation from significant others and community.
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