Katherine and Isabel: Mother's Light, Daughter's Journey [Hardcover]

Frances Wright Saunders (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 19, 1995

This biography explores the personal lives and professional accomplishments of Katharine Cook Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers. These two visionary women created the Myers-Briggs Type Indicatorr inventory and are now considered giants in the field of psychological measurement. Contents Preface Part One1 Advice from Katharine 2 The Education of Suzanne 3 Aspiring Author 4 In Numbers There Is Safety Part Two 5 Swarthmore and Chief 6 Marriage 7 War Bride 8 Lyman, Katharine, and Carl Jung Part Three 9 Domesticity 10 Peter and Ann 11 The Mystery Novel 12 Acclaimed Writer 13 Family Matters and a CrusadePart Four 14 The People Sorting Test 15 Peter and Ann Grow Up 16 The Indicator Comes of Age 17 First Publisher for the Indicator Part Five 18 Family Tragedies 19 A New Alliance 20 A New Publisher 21 Last Years with Chief 22 What Is To Be Desired? Abbreviations in the Notes Notes Chronology Index

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About the Author

Frances Wright Saunders is a research chemist, science editor and writer, historian, and biographer. Published widely, she is also the author of Ellen Axson Wilson: First Lady Between Two Worlds.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 260 pages
• Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing; First edition (January 19, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0891060499
• ISBN-13: 978-0891060499
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #198,952 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #81 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > Professionals & Academics > Social Scientists & Psychologists

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1.0 out of 5 stars Wretched, unfortunately, July 31, 2002

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This review is from: Katherine and Isabel: Mother's Light, Daughter's Journey (Hardcover)

As a recently qualified MBTI practitioner I very much looked forward to reading this book, hoping that it would shed light on the history of the MBTI and those who created it, but I was sadly disappointed. The quality of the prose is below average and the author has little or no sense of how to weave facts into a coherent narrative. Katharine and Isabel certainly deserved better. The book serves up a disjointed and seemingly endless litany of Briggs-Myers family trivialities, so much so that most of it reads like a Christmas letter, but it has very little to say about Jung, the development of type theory or the MBTI itself. Don't waste your time with this one.