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Stephen Montgomery (Author)
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1885705034 978-1885705037 May 2002 1
"Try to see it my way." Taking a line from the Beatles, Stephen Montgomery presents a modern guide to the four temperaments, the four ancient "people patterns" that hold the key to personality types. Montgomery draws extensively on the work of David Keirsey, author of the best-selling book on temperament, Please Understand Me, but he also cites scores of characters from popular books, movies, and TV -- from Harry Potter to Star Trek -- to help bring the Four Temperaments alive. In an easy style, and in words that everyone can understand, Montgomery shines a bright new light on Keirsey's Four Temperaments.
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Product Details

  • Paperback: 136 pages
  • Publisher: Archer Pubns; 1 edition (May 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1885705034
  • ISBN-13: 978-1885705037
  • Product Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #165,678 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Dr Stephen Montgomery attended University of California, San Diego, graduating with honors from Revelle College in 1969, majoring in English Literature. He completed the Ph.D. program in English and American Literature at UCSD in 1977, and became an English teacher, at The Bishop's School in La Jolla, California in 1979 and was named teacher of the year in 1980.

While in graduate school, Steve edited Dr. David Keirsey's book, Please Understand Me, an internationally bestselling book for 40 years. Influenced by Dr. Keirsey's studies in temperament and madness, Steve's doctoral dissertation, in English literature traced the schizophrenic effects of paradoxical "double-bind" communication in Henry James's characters.

Becoming Editor-in-Chief for Prometheus Nemesis Book Company, Steve edited Dr. Keirsey's books, and wrote his own books, the Pygmalion Project Series: Volume 1, The Artisan; Volume 2, The Guardian; and Volume 3, the Idealist. He collaborated with Dr. Keirsey on the international bestselling book, Please Understand Me II, published in 1998. Steve wrote and published his book: People Patterns in 2002. Steve has become the de facto expert of Temperament in Literature.

He has collaborated with Dr. Brian Alman, a student of Milton Erickson, on the book Keep It Off (2004) and also is collaborating with Brian on his forthcoming book to be published in January 2011: The Voice: Discovering the Power of Your Inner Wisdom.

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommended introduction to personality types, February 20, 2003
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This review is from: People Patterns: A Popular Culture Introduction to Personality Types and the Four Temperaments (Paperback)
People Patterns by Stephen Montgomery is a great introduction to David Keirsey's complex temperment theory. The approach is both fun and informative. You take a short test to determine your personality type (rational, idealist, guardian, or artisan) and then you can learn all about how your type and other types behave in different life situations, such as relationships and career. He gives some good career suggestions for each type. The really fun part is Montgomery's use of characters from popular novels and films to illustrate the different types. I particularly liked the Harry Potter references. One of his important points is that each personality type has their own unique talents and ways of approaching life, and it's a losing battle to try to change others to fit your blueprint. Try the test on your friends and family; it's fun and will change the way you look at others and yourself. Highly recommended!
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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Genius for Linking Pop Culture and Temperament, July 15, 2004
This review is from: People Patterns: A Popular Culture Introduction to Personality Types and the Four Temperaments (Paperback)
I am a practicing Career Management Psychologist for the past 29 years and an early advocate of the work of Dr. David Keirsey in its application to career discovery and assessment. Mr. Montgomery, having edited Dr. Keirsey's three books since 1977, has a wonderful ability to take the power inherent in understanding one's "hard wiring" and applying it to the key issues suggested by Freud that lead to mental health i.e. love and work. What makes People Patterns particularly powerful is Mr. Montgomery's talent for explaining type and temperatment through the filter of popular culture. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Mr. Montgomery has a clear and incisive writing style that augments a simply brilliant ability to take the work of celebrities and accurately assess their type and temperament. Whether the spicy women of Sex and the City or the Houses in the Harry Potter tales, Mr. Montgomery grabs the reader with his deep and unabiding understanding of this aspect of the human condition. I can't recommend this book more enthusiastically. It has been a treasure for both me and my clients.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Necessary Suppliment, July 13, 2004
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Jami Vienneau (Salt Lake City, UT) - See all my reviews
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If understanding the depths of temperment is your objective, then this is a must-add to your phychology library. Although Dr. Keirsey's "Please Understand Me II" serves to verify the approach that temperment is nature within us, Montgomery's "People Patterns" augments this understanding for the person interested in a deeper comprehension of the subject. The two writings go hand in hand. It would serve the wise person to have a thorough collection of research on the matter to attend to those around them-as well as their own soul's understanding-and Montgomery's work is a piece of that knowledge pie!
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