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Please Understand Me: Character and Temperament Types | 
 enlarge | Authors: David Keirsey, Marilyn Bates
Publisher: Prometheus Nemesis Book Company
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Avg. Customer Rating:  88 reviews
Sales Rank: 2989
Media: Paperback
Edition: 5th
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Pages: 210
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Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.1 x 0.5
ISBN: 0960695400
Dewey Decimal Number: 155.26
EAN: 9780960695409
ASIN: 0960695400
Publication Date: November 1984
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Does your spouse's need to alphabetically organize books on the shelves puzzle you? Do your boss's tsunami-like moods leave you exasperated? Do your child's constant questions make you batty? If you've ever wanted to change your mate, your coworkers, or a family member, then "Put down your chisel," advise David Keirsey and Marilyn Bates in this book of personality types. We are different for a reason, and that reason is probably more good than bad. Keirsey and Bates believe that not only is it impossible to truly change others (which they call embarking on a "Pygmalion project"), it's much more important to understand and affirm differences. Sounds easier than it is, you might say. Well, this book is a guide for putting an end to the Pygmalion projects in your life and starting on the path to acceptance. For anyone acquainted with the ubiquitous Myers-Briggs personality test, Please Understand Me will be familiar territory--but gone over with a fine-toothed comb. And for the uninitiated, this book will be a quick introduction to personality typing the Myers-Briggs way--with a Jungian accent. After presenting a brief rundown of 20th-century psychology movements, Keirsey and Bates encourage you to take the 70-question "Keirsey Temperament Sorter," a sort of mini-Myers-Briggs test that places you in 1 of 16 personality types. Like the Myers-Briggs system, this test sorts your personality into groups of extraversion/introversion (E/I), sensation/intuition (S/N), thinking/feeling (T/F), and perceiving/judging (P/J). Unlike the Myers-Briggs system, Please Understand Me also presents four easy-to-remember temperament types--Dionysian (freedom first), Epimethean (wants to be useful), Promethean (desires power), and Apollonian (searches for self)--that underlie the 16 possible personalities identified by the test. The book then delves into a detailed analysis of each type, with sections on mates, children, and leaders. An appendix paints portraits of the 16 possible personality types. Unless you're already a true personality-typing devotee, this book may seem a little esoteric, especially the somewhat "in" references to psychological theory that few laypeople will be likely to understand. But give it a chance and you may find that you'll begin to understand why you always know where to find Anna Karenina on the shelf (you have an ESTJ husband), why your boss is sarcastic one day and praises your achievements the next (she's an NF), and why knowing the reason that the sun comes up in the same place every day is important to your little one (he's Promethean). You may even find that once you accept quirks and ticks in others, they will understand you a little better, too. --Stefanie Durbin
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This book is excellent for understanding your own character and it is in new conditions. No marks or breaks on any of the pages.
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 Knowing there is a problem is half the battle... June 7, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
As a military leader, it is essential to motivate your organization. "Please Understand Me: Character & Temperament Types", by Keirsey and Bates, is an excellent primer in basic personality types.
With an understanding of the basic temperament types, leaders will be able to identify key attributes of each of the temperament types in their workers. Some people will fit the cookie-cutter descriptions quite nicely, others may vary their temperament types depending on the situation. The ability to recognize the key attributes to each of the temperaments will enable you to apply the right motivation technique at the time.
What's the right motivation technique to apply? This book doesn't answer that question, which is my main complaint with it.
This book is a fascinating look at the basic personality types. It was a great read, but I was looking for more.
 Resource tool to aid in understaning varous people and their ways May 20, 2008
Good read - confusing at points if unfamiliar with the various terminologies. I enjoyed using it to analyze relationships that I have.
 My favourite book May 1, 2008
Well, it gave me a more powerful tool in oder to understand me as well as other people. Well explained, rich information and interesting stories about each type of 16s. However the author should work out more and deeper
Please Understand Me February 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Please Understand Me: Character and Temperament Types
This is an excellent way to look at the temperament types without delving too deeply into areas that are not productive for your purposes.
Excellent support materials for the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator February 9, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Keirsey and Bates have supplied excellent supplementary materials for administrators of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, with even more clear-cut insight and research into the four temperament types. The only flaw is in the Keirsey Temperament Sorter which has no reliability or validity studies behind it and may misrepresent those whose preferences are borderline.
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