Category: All Types
Enneagram Types Relating To Animals
~~by Richard Curran Trussel~~ Not everyone relates to animals, but for those who do, elements of Enneagram type manifest. One of the many gifts animals offer us is that they potentially lead us beyond our fixations. One What place do companion animals have with someone who is organized and orderly, striving to make every detail [...]
The 2008 Presidential Candidates: Personality Types Analysis
~~Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson with Katy Taylor, Joyce Stenstrom, and Jessica Dibb – The Enneagram Institute~~ Now that the 2008 Election is over, we thought that we would present our views about the major candidates’ types. The following are our current, best “educated guesses,” arrived at from listening to interviews, reading books and articles by [...]
Politics and Emotions, a Bad Combo
~~by Anders Remsen~~ It’s always refreshing to find that Jolly Old England is not the only country that can raise holy hell in its politics, and you folks across the pond also seem to be joining us in the socialism follies, but I have to warn you that we have a substantial lead. If I [...]
The Stiff Upper Lip Syndrome
~~by Cynthia Miller~~ A Hypothesis about the Possible Causes Of Parkinson’s Disease And the Interplay Between Illness, Culture, and Personality “There can be no transformation of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.”– Carl Jung Introduction: The first draft of this article was written in October 2003, a little more than two [...]
Viewing Therapy Through A New Lens
~~by Carolyn Bartlett~~ “Sometimes the magic works and sometimes it doesn’t,” said Chief Dan George in the movie Little Big Man. This philosophy resonates when I’m not sure why my actions as a therapist work or don’t work. I mentally archive the mysterious cases as puzzles until new theoretical insights, even years later, provide the [...]
The Hurt Locker – A Movie Review
By Bill Dyke Here is a news bulletin: The Hurt Locker is a war movie. Here is one you may not have heard: it is not about war, but about the lead character’s relationship to war. And it’s most important dimension is all about the enneagram. Let’s take it in stages: The Story The plot [...]
