Personality Types

Using the Enneagram for Self-Discovery

By: Don Richard Riso, Russ Hudson

Narrated by: James Anderson Foster

Length: 20 hrs and 16 mins

Publisher's summary

Personality Types has become the indispensable resource in the field of Enneagram studies, as well as a cherished classic in the literature of personal growth around the world. This second edition is not only a monumental intellectual achievement, it is a landmark in the history of psychology and human understanding. For the first time, the landscape of human personality has been completely mapped out - from the high-functioning states of ego transcendence to the depths of pathology. Unequaled in the Enneagram field, the authors provide precise and comprehensive systematic descriptions of each personality type, as well as new, expanded descriptions of each type's major subtypes and its Directions of Integration and Disintegration.

This entirely revised edition reveals new insights, including the authors' revolutionary discovery, the Core Dynamics, which give the specific motivations, attitudes, fears, and desires at each of the nine internal Levels of Development for each type, as well as the parental influences on each type, an expanded history of the Enneagram, new material on the Instinctual Variants, and much, much more.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

©1996 Don Richard Riso (P)2017 Tantor

A must read

This is a must read for those who would like to understand themselves better and live a more fulfilling life.

Excellent narrator

Crystal clear voice. I had the impression that Foster fully understood the Enneagram as if he had collaborated with Riso & Hudson.
Much gratitude.

Perfect

I feel I have a much better understanding and am able to apply it daily.

Great Narrator

This is a great book to step inside an enneagram and truly understand the healthy, the average, abs the unhealthy.

Wow am I really that way!

loved it! very interesting and informative! am going to follow up with their next book!

The Best I've Reat Yet

When it comes to enneagram books I can't get enough. I have thoroughly enjoyed dissecting this book. Absorbing the truths and comparing the style this author brings to his writing with all the other Enneagram books, articles, and podcasts. This book has much more detail than many others. Still, it is an easy read, which enables the reader to start anywhere and use it as a research opportunity. You will not be disappointed in this investment.

Enneagram textbook

This is a great book to get a full comprehensive understanding of the enneagram. It’s not diluted or biased. It’s straight-forward and objective, creating the framework for so many enneagram interpretations of today. I learned so much. Go here for textbook content.

Wow this really goes in Deep

Still going throught the book but i have to give kudos for its presentation. i love the way it presents each number by levels. 1-7, each with a magnificent describtion of their reducing lower levels of devolopment.

Advancing understanding

This book takes the Enneagram to the next level with advanced descriptions and explanations of the 9 personality types.

Interesting topic

The material was well organized and presented well too. I learned a lot and enjoyed it.