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Understanding the People around You: An Introduction to Socionics by [Ekaterina Filatova]

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This book is a translation and update by the author of her popular Russian-language book on people types. The field of socionics (personality type along the lines of Jung's theories) is fully covered in this book for American readers; the author is one of the leading socionists in Russia/Europe. The examples and discussions are written at a lay level and are meant for the every day reader.

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July 18, 2014
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00LY9QX5C
Publisher ‏ : ‎ MSI Press, LLC (July 18, 2014)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 18, 2014
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 5510 KB
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Ray Mabry

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Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2011

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I'm not sure, really, what to say of this book as an introduction to the Socionics types. I give it about a 3.5 because I do have some issues with it. So here are my opinions about the book, from my perspective, and note that I was somewhat familiar with Socionics before buying it.

Negatives:

- The book uses Socionics Model J. Model J basically takes the types from Model A and boils them down, functionally, into a more MBTI-like archetype. For example, while Model A uses all 8 functions and this would give the ITE (also "The Seeker" or ILE or ENTp) [NE/TI][FI/SE][FE/SI][NI/TE], Model J uses 4 Functions which gives the ITE [NE/TI] and [SI/FI] which leaves much more to be desired. While Model J is accurate in and of itself it simply leaves the reader with more questions and being that most of the work available via the internet is related to Model A, this may leave beginners slightly confused.

- It promotes the idea that type can be matched to facial features, even going as far as posting pictures people and comparing the two. There are those that may be for this idea and those that strongly oppose it. In my opinion it should not be included in any type of introduction to Socionics. Many claim that this hypothesis is not supported by traditional Socionists but it is hard to tell where Socionics stands on this issue with material like this being included in nearly every aspect of work related. Especially considering that in type descriptions they emphasize expressions and facial features which is likely to originally have been a descriptive device to help paint a picture of the type and nothing more.

- There are minor grammatical/spelling errors throughout the book. While they are forgivable, especially being that all original material on Socionics is written is Russian, there should have been more thought put into the editing of the book. The book is short enough that these could've easily been avoided. With Socionics not having much material available outside of Russia, clarity should've been their main concern.

- The book barely gets into the functions. It offers simplified versions of the functions which are fine but at 166 pages with an overwhelming amount of the material being anecdotal and used to explain how the functions may look in real world situations, it leaves the reader with barely any knowledge of what the functions are themselves. [...] can help with this but still, it shouldn't have to.

- It spends a lot of time emphasizing everything but the actual theories behind information elements. For example it would've been nice if it went into more detail about how Sensation related to Space, Intuition to time, Thinking to Matter and Feeling to Energy. But it only mentions this once briefly.

- Model J's 4 channels do not explain many other behaviors in the types. I feel as though the author tried to squeeze a lot into the more simplified Model J.

Positives

-It is an easy read.

-It puts effort into separating itself from Myers Briggs Type Theory (and indirectly the work of David Keirsey, which has been mixed into MBTI by internet enthusiasts)

-It offers an easier to understand model of Socionics that can be incorporated into the larger and more robust Model A by those that take the time to study model J.

-The type descriptions may leave you wanting more, but in some cases they do a great job of describing the types and certain behaviors. I could see myself and others in their descriptions.

Conclusion: If you are familiar with socionics you can get it as a fun read but it will not give you anything you can't find on the internet. If you are not familiar with socionics this book may help but will leave you with many questions if you attempt to apply the knowledge learned in this book to yourself or others. Being that it is an introduction to Socionics I will be fair. But I feel as though more could've been included in the book. Model A isn't much harder. A simplified explanation of Model A wouldn't have been any more confusing that Model J. But it's cheap, so but it but beware!

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Olga

The book for everyone of us

Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2011

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"Understanding the People Around You: An Introduction to Socionics" by Ekaterina Filatova is the first book written by a well-known author in socionics that has been translated into English. A few years ago, the Russian version of this book, became my introduction into socionics. Since then the author has published several wonderful books; but this first one has extraordinary value. I always recommend this book to novices as it contains all the necessary information about the theory of socionics in a simple and concise form.
This book is a remarkable gift for those who want to understand themselves and others at a deeper psychological level and to gain insight into personal relationships from the perspective of socionics' theory.
The description of the 16 personality types is the most valuable part of this book. Since this book was published other authors have created their own, often more detailed, versions of personality type descriptions. Nevertheless, I always recommend to novices to start learning about the types from Filatova's book. Her descriptions are not overloaded with information and are straight to the point, which makes them easier to understand, remember, and apply when you start practicing socionics.
I strongly recommend this book to everybody who is interested in human psychology and relationships. This book is addressed to the broadest audience - from high school students to elderly people; housewives to professional psychologists - everybody will benefit from the book! Enjoy it and have great fun!
Olga Tangemann, England
Consultant in Associative Socionics, psychologist

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Luda O'Con

Book for carefully reading

Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2010

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This book was very interesting for me. Ekaterina Filatova excellently presented the sixteen personality types. When I read the book, I could see myself, my wife Mary and many of our friends in her descriptions.
I took her personality test at the end of the book. Although the test indicates that I am epicurean, I do not have some of the epicurean traits. Ekaterina Filatova explains that although we can and up in one category, that most of us are a combination of categories. I can see this principle in myself and in others.
When we read books of this type, we must read them carefully.Some people read these psychology books and discover their personality type and then use their personality type as an excuse to continue inappropriate behavior in their lives.
These books can help us if we use the information to recognize and correct the weaknesses in our character. If we do this, we correct ourselves and understand others.
Mary and I both laughed when we read a description that Ekaterina Filatova gave on page 114 of a married couple. She said how she liked to be in their home, it was so cozy and it seemed like they never argued. When the husband did something wrong, one look from his wife was enough for him to understand an dvice versa. The wife quickly knows when the husband doesn't like one of their guests or when the conversation gets too loud.
We thought maybe Ekaterina Filatova knows us!!!

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Kyle

This book is wrong!!

Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2022

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I’m looking at this as hard as I can to check to make sure I’m not wrong but this book is blatantly wrong. It incorrectly identifies inter type relations inaccurately. It says that everyone’s 3rd function is opposite attitude of their primary. I’m blown away that this book got published. It is verifiably wrong!

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Steven Moody

I read most of this online already, but it ...

Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2017

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I read most of this online already, but it was helpful to see it put together in one place. The naming convention was a bit confusing for me but overall worth reading.

Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2013

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I'm familiar with socionics and MBTI but this one seems to be a merge of the two. I wish they would have more photos of all 16 personalities. I'm an ILE (ENTP). In this book I would be an ITE...its different, I get it....so its OK.

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