| Discovering Your Personality Type: The Enneagram Questionnaire |  | Author: Don Richard Riso
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 911515
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 118
ISBN: 0395611571
Dewey Decimal Number: 155.26
EAN: 9780395611579
ASIN: 0395611571
Publication Date: May 27, 1992
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The author of Personality Types and Understanding the Enneagram presents a questionnaire designed to determine one's basic type and that reveals the strengths and weaknesses for change and growth. 35,000 first printing.
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 Personality X-Ray February 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This interesting book featuring the updated Riso-Hudson Enneagram Type Indicator is useful and worth reading. I took time time to answer the 144 questions and what I discovered confirmed the test I have already carried out online with the simple personality test. To improve on your person and on your relationship with others, you must have to know your fundamental compression and the sub-compressions. These 144 questions are well selected, realistic, and sensible. If you can, just read the book and carry out the test and I assure you, you will never regret it.
 very important work January 22, 2008
this is a great enneagramm book, both for beginner and advanced students. There are so many important concepts that I plan on reading this book again. Kept my interest and I highly reccomend this book.
 It's OK, but I ended up being a Myers Briggs fan. May 6, 2007
12 out of 15 found this review helpful
In order to develop a personality typing method, you have to make it fairly complicated, taking more patience than the average pop psych afficionado. Thus, the enneagram method is just as complicated as the 16 personality types found in Myers Briggs method. You can't get around that. That being said, the book fails for a number of reasons.
First, it spends so much time explaining the method that it never spends a great deal of time justifying it. Thus, it was not a very good introduction to the subject. Since it is a scientific method, the author should assume that the person reading it is a skeptic, like most scientists.
Second, the book argues that this method leads to a spiritual awareness of the contingency of personality, where you understand that you are not your personality, you are in fact a soul (put simplistically). Well, the author should express an interest in his own subject, I would think. People are trying to understand their personalities, and yet the author is essentially arguing that the personality types are just window dressing to your true identity. I expect psychology, and I get the Dalai Lama!
I'm not saying it's wrong, I'm saying it is morally questionable to place all that spiritual extra baggage on what could possibly be a scientific method. The author is essentially saying that everyone will come to the same conclusions about spirituality once they take a hard look at their personality type. This is wishful thinking. For someone who purports to understand differences among people, I think it is ridiculous for the author to suggest that everyone's reaction to this process would be so uniform; people may formulate their own spiritual conclusions, or they may not see it as having a spiritual component at all.
Thorough "Forced-Choice" Test Better than General Reading March 5, 2007
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
Having read widely in the fascinating Enneagram literature, I find this test indispensable in accomplishing the actual typing of a person. People and their friends often wish for one Enneagram label or another to apply to them, and Enneagram typing from general reading is susceptible to this *major* distortion. Containing dozens of questions, this thought provoking, multiple choice test -- which forces a choice between the answers presented for each question, often including either *no* answers appealing to the examinee, or *too many* appealing answers -- gives the examinee less opportunity to answer by prior self-stereotyping, and less of a hint of what Enneagram types correspond to which answers. "Forced-choice" testing, widely respected in psychological testing circles, can be uncomfortable when no answers seem a happy fit, but they are a good testing format. Even in other excellent books by Riso and Hudson -- also my favorite Enneagram writers -- the shorter quizzes don't compare in clarity to this. Don't skip this in your efforts to type yourself or a friend.
This book also contains a short exposition of the Enneagram approach and types. This part is cursory, and reading one of Riso and Hudson's lengthier books will be far more satisfying for this information and analysis. Helen Palmer's work is also excellent, but she takes a darker, more pessimistic view of human beings. Hudson and Riso, while recognizing each type's darker sides, present a far more balanced analysis.
Know Thyself. January 9, 2007
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book gives you the tools to identify and understand your inherent strengths and weakness'. This process is vital if you are to apply action steps to improve your life. If you want to hit the target, you have to know where the target is!
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