Myers-Briggs Typology vs. Jungian Individuation - Overcoming One-Sidedness in Self and Society

In Myers-Briggs Typology vs Jungian Individuation: Overcoming One-Sidedness in Self and Society, Steve Myers unravels the century-long misinterpretation of Jung-s seminal text, Psychological Types, to show how Jung-s thinking offers solutions to the conflicts that have torn apart our societies. By challenging the popular interpretation of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator^- and similar instruments, Myers argues that we have not only missed Jung-s main proposition, but our contemporary interpretation runs counter to it.

Myers aims to rediscover the overlooked argument of Jung-s Psychological Types and make it of practical relevance to contemporary issues. He intends to refocus rather than discard Myers-Briggs typology, showing that there are further stages of development after becoming a type and that typological principles have a much broader application. Raising queries about the way typology is used in contemporary society, Myers uses lit