Below is a compilation of quotes by Roberto Assagioli about typology:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cPsychosynthesis has several fields or ways of application:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1. Self-psychosynthesis<\/strong> , that is the action that each can carry out on himself, considering his own personality as a \u201csubject\u201d to be shaped, or rather, as a set of psychophysical elements to organize, transform, compose in harmony, and use. This could be called a scientific and modern yoga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2 Medical psychosynthesis,<\/strong> which can be considered as a synthesis<\/a> of the various aspects and methods of therapy, but not in the sense of an indeterminate eclecticism, but on the basis of a well-defined conception of the integral therapeutic goal. Medical psychosynthesis also includes physical therapies, as it takes the utmost account of the reciprocal actions and reactions that continually take place between psyche and body, on which psychosomatic medicine is based. Therefore, if the word did not appear too technical and \u201cdifficult\u201d, it should more exactly be called \u201cbio-psychosynthesis.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3 Psychosynthetic education<\/strong> , which aims to favor the development and implementation of all the latent potentialities in the child and adolescent, tending above all to awaken and enhance the higher and spiritual ones, which are often neglected or, worse, hampered or suppressed. Particular attention is dedicated to the research, recognition and enhancement of particularly gifted children and young people, both intellectually and in other ways (artistic, musical, technical, inventive, spiritual skills or genius).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4 Interpersonal and interindividual psychosynthesis<\/strong> , which aims to establish just, harmonious and creative human relationships between the individual and other individuals (particularly between spouses, and between parents and children); between the individual and the various human groups to which he belongs; between the different groups and human communities amongst themselves, up to the hoped-for synthesis of all humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 5 Differential or typological psychosynthesis.<\/strong> I mentioned at the outset that each individual is unique, in that his personality is made up of a combination of different elements, in ways and proportions that are not the same in any other person. Already in ancient times, however, it was observed, and then studied more precisely by modern psychology, that men can be grouped into various types<\/em> , having similar or similar biological and psychological characteristics; thus, extroverts and introverts, sensory, emotional, mental, intuitive, and various other types have been recognized and described.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Psychosynthesis, these differences of temperament and character are taken into full account, and the plan and the various healing and educational tasks are adapted to the particular individual type, in the sense of developing deficient or immature psychological functions, and of valuing the gifts or talents. Psychosynthesis and Parapsychology 1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n “\u2026 the essential unity of all souls does not exclude differences existing in their personal appearances. Therefore, we must make a serious study of these different qualities. This study should become more and more a part of the new psychology. We should endeavour to understand the true nature, the underlying function and purpose, the specific problems, virtues and vices of each type, as it manifests in and through a human individual.” Assagioli, R. “Loving Understanding<\/a>.” Psicosintesi<\/em>. October 1994. Firenze, Italy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe practical importance of the science of human types lies in its application to ourselves – the attempt to classify ourselves and others is an interesting and useful exercise that should enable us to refine our psychological perception.\u201d (Psychosynthesis Typology<\/strong>, p.11)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIn order truly to understand, we must be willing to make the necessary preparation and develop in ourselves the specific faculty, namely, empathy. The preparation consists in acquiring an adequate knowledge of psychology, both general and specific; this includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIn order to have a true and profound self-knowledge, the direct observation just mentioned is very useful, but not sufficient. It has to be supplemented by the use of certain analytic methods which allow the search of the subconscious, and by the comparative study of the different psychological types.\u201d (Practical Contributions to a Modern Yoga<\/strong>, part III, April 1934, The Beacon)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe practical use of psychosynthesis is a delicate art. It implies:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The psycho-spiritual diagnosis<\/em>, that is the study of the whole subconscious and (when necessary) superconscious constitution of the patient; the classification of his psycho-physical type (1); the discovery of the psychological causes and mechanism of the illness. \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n (1) The description and interpretation of the \u201cpsychological types\u201d have not yet reached, in spite of their valuable recent developments, a final and satisfactory stage, owing chiefly to the lack of a synthetic standpoint and of the proper consideration of the spiritual elements. The best which has been published up to now on this subject is found, in my opinion, in C. G. Jung’s book Psychologische Typen <\/em>and in two chapters (A study of psychological typen <\/em>and Masculine and feminine psychology<\/em>) of the book, already mentioned, of Dr. Hinkle, The recreating of the individual<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBut in the case of patients, who generally have a particular sensitiveness and special difficulties to overcome, the use of all those means must be wisely advised and regulated by the doctor, in order to suit the psychological type and the possibilities of each patient, to avoid the danger of excesses and exaltation, to prevent as much as possible the reactions and complications which easily occur in such cases.\u201d (A New Method of Healing<\/a>, 1927)<\/p>\n\n\n\n The work of understanding exactly our special psychological constitution is neither easy nor simple, given the complexity and frequent contradiction of the elements that compose us, but it is facilitated if it is divided into two parts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Having made this double investigation, it is then a question of choosing, among the various psychological methods we have mentioned, the most suitable ones to correct and develop each type, to solve the particular problems of each individual. It is necessary that each formulate his own “action plan”, that he chooses and creates, or rather, understands and understands, the “ideal model” to which to adapt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is a question of “building” one’s personality and making it an agile and obedient instrument; it is a question of creating the most suitable form to manifest and realize our individual “note”, to find the “lifestyle” that is right for us, to implement our “internal vocation”. It is a work of science and art at the same time and is, at the same time, essentially a practical thing. In it lies the secret of satisfaction and success, understood in their broadest and highest sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The complexity of this work should not worry or discourage us. It can be implemented in a gradual and orderly, harmonious and serene way. And the joy and the advantages brought by the first successes, from the first conquests, give stimulus and encouragement to continue. Of course, adequate teaching and the help of competent guides can facilitate the task and accelerate its pace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But psychology has not only personal and individual applications; its range of action extends into the vast field of inter-individual and social relationships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here, too, there is first of all a great task of enlightenment to be carried out. If we understand and know ourselves little, we understand others even less. From such ignorance – made greater by the fact that it mostly ignores itself! – derives a sad series of errors of judgment, of misunderstandings, of conflicts, with which we harm each other and – painfully to say – also, and sometimes above all, to those who are dear to us. In fact, a large part of these mistakes are committed within the family. (The Art of Living<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe tendency\u2014rather, the temptation\u2014to accord an excessive value to typological classifying needs to be resisted\u037e and even more the inclination to attach labels to individuals. Those who are attracted by such “cataloguing” often become harmfully conditioned and limited by it, while others rightly rebel against it. The inadequacies and limitations resulting from rigid and static typological classifying have been plainly indicated and criticized by both Allport and Maslow.\u201d (The Act of Will,<\/strong> 1974, p. 252)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHowever useful typology may be for understanding and dealing with different human beings, it fails to give a full view, a comprehensive account of an individual.<\/em> Every individual constitutes a unique combination of countless and differing factors. If even the combinations between elements as simple as the lines on the skin of the fingers are so different that: fingerprints are sufficient to identify an individual, it is clearly apparent that the combinations of the vast number of biological and psychological characteristics in each single human. being make of each of us a most complex, diverse, and genuinely unique individual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Even more than this, those countless factors and their combinations are not static and fixed as fingerprints are. They are changing constantly, owing both to the inner development and growth of the individual and to the constant impact and intake of influences from the outside world and from other human beings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But important as this realization is, it should not lead us to believe that it is hopeless to establish a scientific “psychology of the individual.” Such a psychology is possible, and is beginning to be developed.\u201d (The Act of Will,<\/strong> 1974, p. 258)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI think that no one<\/em> method of study can give us an adequate under\u00adstanding of such a complex unity as a human being, and that only by using all the available channels of approach, only by looking at this multi-faced prism from many angles, only by tracing as far as possible the origin of the elements of which it is composed, and endeavoring to visualize the goal towards which it consciously or unconsciously pro\u00adceeds, we may hope to really know a human unit, a microcosm. Only thus we will become able to coordinate and harmonize the disconnected and often complicating energy and faculties of our personalities into a harmonious whole, to achieve our psychosynthesis.\u201d (Individual Psychology and Spiritual Development,<\/strong> Oct. 1930, The Beacon)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBut this and other classifications expose those who adopt them to the dangers of schematicism and pigeon-holing, of yielding to the (so comfort\u00adable!) tendency to \u201clabel\u201d human beings. We must be on our guard against overlooking the multifarious and complex facets of human reality. It is all too easy to regard others as \u201cobjects\u201d instead of \u201csubjects\u201d. And this labeling, with its associated attitudes of judging, or more often of depreciation, often provokes hostile reactions, sometimes of an intense kind, which are thoroughly justified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n All this shows the great complexity of the human psyche and the impossibility of framing or pigeon-holing it in some designation or description arrived at from a single viewpoint. Only the sum of the various points of view, of the different approaches or \u201cframes of reference\u201d, can give a less imperfect conception of the psyche of that strange creature, a member of the fourth kingdom of nature\u2014the human being.\u201d (C. G. Jung and Psychosynthesis<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n A Concordance of \u201cType\u201d and the Extraversion\u2013Introversion Polarity<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It is sometimes said that typology is marginal to Assagioli\u2019s mature psychology. This concordance tests that claim against the text of Psychosynthesis: A Manual of Principles and Techniques<\/em> (New York: Hobbs, Dorman, 1965), the work in which his clinical method is most fully set out. It records every occurrence of the words \u201ctype\u201d and \u201ctypes,\u201d and of the extravert\u2013introvert family of terms, classifies each by its sense in context, and notes where the typological distinctions actually govern the choice of technique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Method: a full-text search of the 1965 edition for the standalone forms type \/ types<\/em> and for extravert(ed) \/ extraversion \/ introvert(ed) \/ introversion<\/em>. Each hit was read in context and assigned to one of the categories below. Page numbers were located from the book\u2019s running headers and are accurate to within a page; for the polarity they have been checked against Assagioli\u2019s own index, which lists Extraversion<\/em> at pp. 12, 25, 147\u201348, 190 and Introversion<\/em> at pp. 99, 147\u201348, 189.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The word appears sixty-five times \u2014 sixty-four genuine, since one instance (p. 288) is \u201carchetypes\u201d divided by a line-break. Of the sixty-four, twenty-seven<\/strong> denote psychological, characterological, or temperamental typology; six<\/strong> denote the perceptual (visual \/ auditory) types Assagioli also treats typologically; and thirty-one<\/strong> carry the generic sense of \u201ckind\u201d or \u201csort.\u201d So roughly half of the tokens bear on typology proper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Psychological, characterological, and temperamental typology (27)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Intro <\/strong>\u201cclassification and description of psychological types\u201d \u2014 Rank and others<\/p>\n\n\n\n p. 24 <\/strong>an ideal practicable to one\u2019s \u201cstage of development and psychological type\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n p. 26 <\/strong>active vs. passive methods, each \u201cappropriate to the corresponding type\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n p. 74 <\/strong>\u201ctwo classical types\u201d: the he-man in the office, the milquetoast at home<\/p>\n\n\n\n p. 92 <\/strong>technique varies with \u201cthe psychological type of the patient\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n p. 94 <\/strong>differential psychology \u2014 \u201cestablishing psychological types\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n p. 106 <\/strong>the discharge depends on \u201cthe psychological type of the patient\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n p. 106 <\/strong>effectiveness varies with \u201cthe various psychological types\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n p. 106 <\/strong>forces belonging to \u201cthe psychological type of the individual\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n p. 110 <\/strong>a warning to \u201cemotional types\u201d over critical analysis<\/p>\n\n\n\n p. 124 <\/strong>Adler \u201cso well described their type\u201d \u2014 the \u201cAdlerian cases\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n p. 146 <\/strong>\u201cthe psychological type, i.e., in regard to extraversion or introversion\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n p. 156 <\/strong>\u201cthe more pronounced type, or rather class\u201d \u2014 the hypochondriacs<\/p>\n\n\n\n p. 162 <\/strong>cites Jung, Psychological Types<\/em>, p. 601 (signs vs. symbols)<\/p>\n\n\n\n p. 162 <\/strong>symbols suited to \u201cdifferent types of people\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n p. 188 <\/strong>method limited for \u201ctypes opposite to those just mentioned\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n p. 200 <\/strong>consciousness projected \u201ccorresponding to their type and way of functioning\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n p. 206 <\/strong>\u201cwith this type of person\u201d \u2014 the inner Christ figure<\/p>\n\n\n\n p. 206 <\/strong>\u201ccertain types of individuals\u201d may reach creativity without mystical experience<\/p>\n\n\n\n p. 210 <\/strong>the \u201cclash of psychological types and temperaments\u201d in group work<\/p>\n\n\n\n p. 216 <\/strong>nature symbols suit \u201cthe more objective and practical type of patient\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n p. 216 <\/strong>cites Jung, Psychological Types<\/em> (1933), p. 569 (intuition)<\/p>\n\n\n\n p. 222 <\/strong>a contra-indication for \u201ccertain types\u201d prone to hunches<\/p>\n\n\n\n p. 242 <\/strong>\u201ca listener of the intellectual type,\u201d emotionally cold<\/p>\n\n\n\n p. 244 <\/strong>William James: \u201cno more contemptible type of human character\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n p. 246 <\/strong>persons of \u201cthe practical or \u2026 the mental type\u201d with repressed emotion<\/p>\n\n\n\n p. 280 <\/strong>from 1946, \u201ccourses of lectures \u2026 on psychological types\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Perceptual types \u2014 visual \/ auditory (6)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n p. 102 <\/strong>whether the patient is \u201ca visual or an auditory type\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n p. 148 <\/strong>improvement turns on \u201cthe visual or non-visual type\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n p. 152 <\/strong>\u201csubjects being auditory or visual types\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n p. 154 <\/strong>in auditory evocation \u201cthe type is really outstandingly important\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n p. 156 <\/strong>\u201ctwo extreme types\u201d: deficient and excessive auditory ability<\/p>\n\n\n\n p. 282 <\/strong>art\u2019s power \u201cupon those who belong to the visual type\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Generic sense \u2014 \u201ckind \/ sort of \u2014\u201d (31, plus 1 line-break artifact)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The remaining uses qualify things other than persons: type of conflict and of crisis (pp. 36, 48); kinds of dreams (p. 94); type of self-identification (pp. 110, 112); type of patient defined by state (p. 120); type of action (p. 120) and of approach (p. 124); types of imagination (p. 144); type of auditory evocation (p. 154); every type of sensation (p. 162); a higher type of psychosynthesis (p. 190); type of material (p. 198); types of aesthetic experience (p. 202) and a personified type of symbol (p. 202); simpler types of cases (p. 226); four references to types of conscience (p. 232); type of music (pp. 244, 256); types of operations (p. 246); types of neuropsychiatric patients (p. 252); types of ideal figures (p. 274) and the highest type of womanhood (p. 274); the subtitle of Sorokin\u2019s book (p. 276); a transcendental type of style (p. 284); \u201cFreudian type analysis\u201d (p. 288); and a type of visualisation (p. 292, twice). The artifact \u201cArche-types\u201d occurs at p. 288.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Counting all word-forms, the polarity is invoked twenty-three<\/strong> times in the body of the text (twenty-five including the two index entries). Of these, eleven<\/strong> function as a clinical variable governing the selection or adaptation of technique \u2014 and these cluster sharply in the chapters on visualisation (pp. 146\u201348) and symbolic imagery (pp. 188\u201390). The other twelve are descriptive or theoretical. The polarity therefore governs technique locally and decisively<\/em>, in the imagery work, rather than evenly across the book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Governing the selection or adaptation of technique (11)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n p. 146 <\/strong>E\/I taken as the indication of psychological type for visualisation<\/p>\n\n\n\n p. 146 <\/strong>\u201cextraverted people can visualize more easily with closed eyes\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n p. 146 <\/strong>the extravert\u2019s interest tied to the open eyes<\/p>\n\n\n\n p. 146 <\/strong>eyes closed \u201cforce\u201d the patient to \u201cintrovert\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n p. 146 <\/strong>\u201cintroverts have more difficulty with closed eyes\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n p. 148 <\/strong>\u201cextraverts on the sensation level\u201d struggle with eyes open<\/p>\n\n\n\n p. 148 <\/strong>\u201can introvert on the sensation level\u201d flooded with eyes closed<\/p>\n\n\n\n p. 188 <\/strong>technique \u201cused with discretion\u201d for introverted psychoneurotics<\/p>\n\n\n\n p. 188 <\/strong>scanty results with \u201cextremely extraverted\u201d subjects<\/p>\n\n\n\n p. 190 <\/strong>technique attempted only once \u201cthe excess of extraversion has been corrected\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n p. 190 <\/strong>\u201cextremely extraverted patients\u201d show little symbolic activity<\/p>\n\n\n\n Descriptive or theoretical (12)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n p. 24 <\/strong>\u201ca certain degree of extraversion\u201d in vital outer relationships<\/p>\n\n\n\n p. 26 <\/strong>the harmonious ideal \u201caimed at chiefly by introverts\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n p. 26 <\/strong>specialised-efficiency models \u201cpreferred by extraverts\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n p. 56 <\/strong>counteracting \u201cthe tendency to excessive introversion\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n p. 98 <\/strong>\u201cexcessive introversion, \u2026 morbid self-analysis\u201d as a danger<\/p>\n\n\n\n p. 102 <\/strong>\u201can introvert attitude of masochistic self-complacency\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n p. 104 <\/strong>diaries said to encourage \u201cexcessive introversion\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n p. 148 <\/strong>Jung\u2019s point that one may be introverted in one function, extraverted in another (four word-forms)<\/p>\n\n\n\n p. 240 <\/strong>\u201cextraversion and introversion\u201d among the mood-states music influences<\/p>\n\n\n\n Typology is woven through the 1965 manual rather than confined to a single chapter: psychological, perceptual, and temperamental types surface across the discussions of method, symbols, the superconscious, group work, and music. But it is not the book\u2019s dominant frame, and a bare word-count overstates its presence, since half the occurrences of \u201ctype\u201d mean simply \u201ckind.\u201d The one place where a typological distinction does real clinical work is the extraversion\u2013introversion polarity in the imagery techniques, where it determines whether a patient should work with eyes open or closed and whether a symbolic method can be applied at all. This is the operational residue, in the public manual, of the typological system Assagioli had been teaching since the 1932 lectures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Below is a compilation of quotes by Roberto Assagioli about typology: Psychosynthesis Includes Typology \u201cPsychosynthesis has several fields or ways of application: 1. 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Self-psychosynthesis<\/strong> , that is the action that each can carry out on himself, considering his own personality as a \u201csubject\u201d to be shaped, or rather, as a set of psychophysical elements to organize, transform, compose in harmony, and use. This could be called a scientific and modern yoga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2 Medical psychosynthesis,<\/strong> which can be considered as a synthesis<\/a> of the various aspects and methods of therapy, but not in the sense of an indeterminate eclecticism, but on the basis of a well-defined conception of the integral therapeutic goal. Medical psychosynthesis also includes physical therapies, as it takes the utmost account of the reciprocal actions and reactions that continually take place between psyche and body, on which psychosomatic medicine is based. Therefore, if the word did not appear too technical and \u201cdifficult\u201d, it should more exactly be called \u201cbio-psychosynthesis.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n 3 Psychosynthetic education<\/strong> , which aims to favor the development and implementation of all the latent potentialities in the child and adolescent, tending above all to awaken and enhance the higher and spiritual ones, which are often neglected or, worse, hampered or suppressed. Particular attention is dedicated to the research, recognition and enhancement of particularly gifted children and young people, both intellectually and in other ways (artistic, musical, technical, inventive, spiritual skills or genius).<\/p>\n\n\n\n 4 Interpersonal and interindividual psychosynthesis<\/strong> , which aims to establish just, harmonious and creative human relationships between the individual and other individuals (particularly between spouses, and between parents and children); between the individual and the various human groups to which he belongs; between the different groups and human communities amongst themselves, up to the hoped-for synthesis of all humanity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 5 Differential or typological psychosynthesis.<\/strong> I mentioned at the outset that each individual is unique, in that his personality is made up of a combination of different elements, in ways and proportions that are not the same in any other person. Already in ancient times, however, it was observed, and then studied more precisely by modern psychology, that men can be grouped into various types<\/em> , having similar or similar biological and psychological characteristics; thus, extroverts and introverts, sensory, emotional, mental, intuitive, and various other types have been recognized and described.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Psychosynthesis, these differences of temperament and character are taken into full account, and the plan and the various healing and educational tasks are adapted to the particular individual type, in the sense of developing deficient or immature psychological functions, and of valuing the gifts or talents. Psychosynthesis and Parapsychology 1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n \"\u2026 the essential unity of all souls does not exclude differences existing in their personal appearances. Therefore, we must make a serious study of these different qualities. This study should become more and more a part of the new psychology. We should endeavour to understand the true nature, the underlying function and purpose, the specific problems, virtues and vices of each type, as it manifests in and through a human individual.\" Assagioli, R. \"Loving Understanding<\/a>.\" Psicosintesi<\/em>. October 1994. Firenze, Italy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe practical importance of the science of human types lies in its application to ourselves - the attempt to classify ourselves and others is an interesting and useful exercise that should enable us to refine our psychological perception.\u201d (Psychosynthesis Typology<\/strong>, p.11)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIn order truly to understand, we must be willing to make the necessary preparation and develop in ourselves the specific faculty, namely, empathy. The preparation consists in acquiring an adequate knowledge of psychology, both general and specific; this includes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIn order to have a true and profound self-knowledge, the direct observation just mentioned is very useful, but not sufficient. It has to be supplemented by the use of certain analytic methods which allow the search of the subconscious, and by the comparative study of the different psychological types.\u201d (Practical Contributions to a Modern Yoga<\/strong>, part III, April 1934, The Beacon)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe practical use of psychosynthesis is a delicate art. It implies:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The psycho-spiritual diagnosis<\/em>, that is the study of the whole subconscious and (when necessary) superconscious constitution of the patient; the classification of his psycho-physical type (1); the discovery of the psychological causes and mechanism of the illness. \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n (1) The description and interpretation of the \u201cpsychological types\u201d have not yet reached, in spite of their valuable recent developments, a final and satisfactory stage, owing chiefly to the lack of a synthetic standpoint and of the proper consideration of the spiritual elements. The best which has been published up to now on this subject is found, in my opinion, in C. G. Jung's book Psychologische Typen <\/em>and in two chapters (A study of psychological typen <\/em>and Masculine and feminine psychology<\/em>) of the book, already mentioned, of Dr. Hinkle, The recreating of the individual<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBut in the case of patients, who generally have a particular sensitiveness and special difficulties to overcome, the use of all those means must be wisely advised and regulated by the doctor, in order to suit the psychological type and the possibilities of each patient, to avoid the danger of excesses and exaltation, to prevent as much as possible the reactions and complications which easily occur in such cases.\u201d (A New Method of Healing<\/a>, 1927)<\/p>\n\n\n\n The work of understanding exactly our special psychological constitution is neither easy nor simple, given the complexity and frequent contradiction of the elements that compose us, but it is facilitated if it is divided into two parts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Having made this double investigation, it is then a question of choosing, among the various psychological methods we have mentioned, the most suitable ones to correct and develop each type, to solve the particular problems of each individual. It is necessary that each formulate his own \"action plan\", that he chooses and creates, or rather, understands and understands, the \"ideal model\" to which to adapt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is a question of \"building\" one's personality and making it an agile and obedient instrument; it is a question of creating the most suitable form to manifest and realize our individual \"note\", to find the \"lifestyle\" that is right for us, to implement our \"internal vocation\". It is a work of science and art at the same time and is, at the same time, essentially a practical thing. In it lies the secret of satisfaction and success, understood in their broadest and highest sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The complexity of this work should not worry or discourage us. It can be implemented in a gradual and orderly, harmonious and serene way. And the joy and the advantages brought by the first successes, from the first conquests, give stimulus and encouragement to continue. Of course, adequate teaching and the help of competent guides can facilitate the task and accelerate its pace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But psychology has not only personal and individual applications; its range of action extends into the vast field of inter-individual and social relationships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here, too, there is first of all a great task of enlightenment to be carried out. If we understand and know ourselves little, we understand others even less. From such ignorance - made greater by the fact that it mostly ignores itself! - derives a sad series of errors of judgment, of misunderstandings, of conflicts, with which we harm each other and - painfully to say - also, and sometimes above all, to those who are dear to us. In fact, a large part of these mistakes are committed within the family. (The Art of Living<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe tendency\u2014rather, the temptation\u2014to accord an excessive value to typological classifying needs to be resisted\u037e and even more the inclination to attach labels to individuals. Those who are attracted by such \"cataloguing\" often become harmfully conditioned and limited by it, while others rightly rebel against it. The inadequacies and limitations resulting from rigid and static typological classifying have been plainly indicated and criticized by both Allport and Maslow.\u201d (The Act of Will,<\/strong> 1974, p. 252)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHowever useful typology may be for understanding and dealing with different human beings, it fails to give a full view, a comprehensive account of an individual.<\/em> Every individual constitutes a unique combination of countless and differing factors. If even the combinations between elements as simple as the lines on the skin of the fingers are so different that: fingerprints are sufficient to identify an individual, it is clearly apparent that the combinations of the vast number of biological and psychological characteristics in each single human. being make of each of us a most complex, diverse, and genuinely unique individual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Even more than this, those countless factors and their combinations are not static and fixed as fingerprints are. They are changing constantly, owing both to the inner development and growth of the individual and to the constant impact and intake of influences from the outside world and from other human beings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But important as this realization is, it should not lead us to believe that it is hopeless to establish a scientific \"psychology of the individual.\" Such a psychology is possible, and is beginning to be developed.\u201d (The Act of Will,<\/strong> 1974, p. 258)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI think that no one<\/em> method of study can give us an adequate under\u00adstanding of such a complex unity as a human being, and that only by using all the available channels of approach, only by looking at this multi-faced prism from many angles, only by tracing as far as possible the origin of the elements of which it is composed, and endeavoring to visualize the goal towards which it consciously or unconsciously pro\u00adceeds, we may hope to really know a human unit, a microcosm. Only thus we will become able to coordinate and harmonize the disconnected and often complicating energy and faculties of our personalities into a harmonious whole, to achieve our psychosynthesis.\u201d (Individual Psychology and Spiritual Development,<\/strong> Oct. 1930, The Beacon)<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBut this and other classifications expose those who adopt them to the dangers of schematicism and pigeon-holing, of yielding to the (so comfort\u00adable!) tendency to \u201clabel\u201d human beings. We must be on our guard against overlooking the multifarious and complex facets of human reality. It is all too easy to regard others as \u201cobjects\u201d instead of \u201csubjects\u201d. And this labeling, with its associated attitudes of judging, or more often of depreciation, often provokes hostile reactions, sometimes of an intense kind, which are thoroughly justified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n All this shows the great complexity of the human psyche and the impossibility of framing or pigeon-holing it in some designation or description arrived at from a single viewpoint. Only the sum of the various points of view, of the different approaches or \u201cframes of reference\u201d, can give a less imperfect conception of the psyche of that strange creature, a member of the fourth kingdom of nature\u2014the human being.\u201d (C. G. Jung and Psychosynthesis<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n A Concordance of \u201cType\u201d and the Extraversion\u2013Introversion Polarity<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\nWhy we use typology<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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