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

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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.

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).