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Please understand me : character and temperament type / created by David Keirsey and Marilyn Bates.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextGnosology books, 1984Edition: 5th editionDescription: 210 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • rdamedia
Carrier type:
  • rdacarrier
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BF698.3 KEI
Contents:
1. Different drums and different drummers - 2. The four temperaments - 3. Mating and temperament - 4. Temperament in children - 5. Temperament in leading Appendix: the sixteen types
Summary: 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
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1. Different drums and different drummers - 2. The four temperaments - 3. Mating and temperament - 4. Temperament in children - 5. Temperament in leading Appendix: the sixteen types

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

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