The Enneagram Spectrum of Personality Styles: An Introductory Guide
by Jerome Wagner
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This is the best introductory book you will find on the Enneagram. Wagner's guide is a clear and concise introduction to the Enneagram, useful for personal exploration and as a teaching ID for workshop presenters and counselors. This comprehensive book with charts, exercises, and bullet descriptions, yields an experiential understanding of basic Enneagram principles such as: Authentic values and their personality substitutes Resourceful and non-resourceful cognitive, emotional, and show more behavioral schemas and how they shift under stressful and flow conditions Developmental influences The three centers of sorting and deciding The defense mechanisms, principles and paradigms, virtues, passions, and both healthy and maladaptive instincts of each of the nine Enneagram personality types. For centuries ? and now in the light of leading-edge psychology ?the Enneagram has helped people to recognize their predispositions, motives, and talents. Its insights provide valuable information for those in communication, business, human resources, therapy, and personal growth. This book helps you to explore the nine different "hues" of the Enneagram, discover your own type, and understand the behaviors and attitudes that are uniquely yours. It is considered the most concise and easy to use introductory guide available. show lessTags
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There are many theories about personality (see Wikipedia). The Enneagram gives us nine very different examples of personality styles, so it is a good introduction to the subject.
I found this book to be very clear and systematic. It is a good reference to the Enneagram, but it might not be enough to get a 'feeling' for the nine types. (I had to read several books for that, anyway.) There is a very helpful introductory chapter with questions to explore your own views and motivations.
Many authors put the Enneagram in a spiritual or religious context, which can be quite frustrating if you do not completely share their beliefs, or simply want to tell religion and psychology apart. Wagner sticks to the psychological side, which makes a good show more foundation. (Then, if you like to, you can proceed to read about cosmic energies or Christian virtues, and disagree with the respective author on how these relate to the Enneagram.) show less
I found this book to be very clear and systematic. It is a good reference to the Enneagram, but it might not be enough to get a 'feeling' for the nine types. (I had to read several books for that, anyway.) There is a very helpful introductory chapter with questions to explore your own views and motivations.
Many authors put the Enneagram in a spiritual or religious context, which can be quite frustrating if you do not completely share their beliefs, or simply want to tell religion and psychology apart. Wagner sticks to the psychological side, which makes a good show more foundation. (Then, if you like to, you can proceed to read about cosmic energies or Christian virtues, and disagree with the respective author on how these relate to the Enneagram.) show less
Wagner's work introduces and explores the theory of bi-directional paths for growth along the energy and stress lines, thus opening further possible insights for the work of integration.
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- The Enneagram Spectrum of Personality Styles: An Introductory Guide
- Original publication date
- 1996-01-01
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