Building Blocks of Personality Type: A Guide to Using the Eight-Process Model of Personality Type [Paperback]

Leona Haas (Author), Mark Hunziker (Author), Katharine D. Myers (Foreword), John Beebe (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 8, 2006

Take the next step in understanding Jung’s mental processes!

Building Blocks of Personality Type provides a simple and direct route into the heart of personality type. Authors Leona Haas and Mark Hunziker bring to life a simple and practical understanding of the underlying theory of the personality type code—first brought to life by Isabel Myers with the creation of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® instrument—the eight Jungian mental processes. Whether you are exploring personality type for the first time or are interested in taking personality type to the next level, Building Blocks of Personality Type is the essential element you need to get there.

Highlights . . .
- Complete introduction to personality type
- Dedicated chapter for each mental process
- Glossary of terms for greater clarity

- Beyond the basics with applications to . . .
- Managing Conflict
- Making Decisions
- Improving Communication
- Managing change and transition
- Parenting and education
- Career Development

Editorial Reviews

Review

"This is the most accurate explanation of the eight-function Jungian type model that I have come across." --Michael Reding, President-Elect, C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco

"I highly recommend this book for all practitioners who use personality type in organizations.” --Todd Wilhelm, Senior Manager, Fortune 500 Company

"It provides the most comprehensive and accessible descriptions of the ‘eight intelligences’ that I have ever seen." --Don Kjelleren, Vice President, Vermont Association of Psychological Type

About the Author

Leona Haas, MS, is a principal of Consultants of the Future. An accomplished organizational needs assessor and instructional designer, she is experienced with a multitude of instruments. Leona has many years’ experience coaching leaders and facilitators in organization change and transition, team development, and conflict management. She has been coaching executives, conducting team-building off-sites, and using the MBTI® Step II as a crucial part of her coaching as well as correlating the MBTI® instrument to the Gallup Strength Finders and various 360-degree evaluation instruments. Leona has earned an international reputation as a pioneer in the use of the eight-process model. She has made presentations at many chapters of the Association of Psychological Type (APT) and at international conferences on the practical uses of type. She was given the Innovations in Training and Education Award for the APT XV International Conference. Her workshop “Using the TKI and M! BTI® in Conflict Management,” presented in April 2002 to the Chicago chapter of APT, was awarded the Outstanding Chapter Program for the APT XV International Conference. She co-authored Journey of Understanding and Introduction to the Eight Functions and Type.

Mark Hunziker is a teacher and consultant and principal of Wellness Resources of Vermont. He works with individuals, teams, organizations, and communities to restore their natural state of balanced wellness. Since all human systems have evolved with tremendous resources for self-adjusting and healing, Mark sees his job as primarily one of helping clients remove the barriers to these powerful natural processes—to “get out of their own way.” The consultant’s function is simply to provide the information, support, guidance, process facilitation, or tools needed to enable the system to self-correct.
Working from a paradigm of integration of the physical, psychological, and spiritual dimensions of the whole self, Mark has always found that an understanding of type provides an invaluable foundation for identifying issues and guiding intervention. His work can take the form of providing leadership counseling, guiding team development, administering and interpreting organizational assessments, hosting and facilitating workshops and retreats, or providing access to resources and technology that promote personal wellness.

Product Details

• Paperback: 230 pages
• Publisher: Unite Business Press (February 8, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 097193262X
• ISBN-13: 978-0971932623
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #337,624 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Eight Process Watching, July 1, 2006

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Darrell R. Johnson (Montreal, QC, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Building Blocks of Personality Type: A Guide to Using the Eight-Process Model of Personality Type (Paperback)

This book is destined to make a big impact on the Psychological Type community; it synthesizes recent enhancements of Type theory made by John Beebe and Harold Grant and shifts the reader's focus away from the four dichotomies and the 16 MBTI types and towards the eight Jungian cognitive functions--describing in great detail both how to recognize each of these functions from an observer's perspective and also how they are experienced "from the inside" based upon anecdotes and quotes from "users" of each function. This book has helped me grasp "what it feels like" to have Si or Se as a primary or auxiliary function, and it enlightens me concerning all of the functions I'm less inclined to lean upon (I'm INFP). I find it a useful companion to Danielle Poirier's multi-media presentation, "The Magnificent 16". (see www.rebeleagle.com). I believe that the approach of Haas and Hunziker, as I put it to use, will help me to individualize Type theory, since we do not always develop our type preferences in predictable ways.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent summary of Jungian personality type, February 18, 2010

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John Wheeler "Johanan Rakkav" (King David's Harp, Inc., Houston, TX. USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Building Blocks of Personality Type: A Guide to Using the Eight-Process Model of Personality Type (Paperback)

I'm not an expert in Jungian psychology or Jungian personality type, just a student of the latter - and that exploration has been very, very helpful to me. This is one text that I've found helpful indeed in that exploration. It deals with the eight-process model of cognitive dynamics, and treats each of the cognitive (thought) processes separately (as much as that's actually possible) in great detail. It also has very helpful appendices about Jungian psyche, John Beebe's archetypes model, and the hierarchies of cognitive processes within the sixteen Myers-Briggs personalities.

Overall, IMO this isn't as good for the serious lay searcher as Dr. Linda Berens' and Dr. Dario Nardi's workbooks, but it is a very helpful reference work and as such I refer to it often (especially the appendices).