Please Understand Me: Character and Temperament Types

by David Keirsey

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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.
  • ISBN10 0960695400
  • ISBN13 9780960695409
  • Publish Date 1 January 1984
  • Publish Status Active
  • Imprint Prometheus Nemesis Book Company
  • Edition 5th ed.
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 210
  • Language English