From Personality Types by Don Richard Riso Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston.  Reprinted by permission.

by Don Richard Riso

 To face the world and the terrifying insecurity of human existence naked and defenseless is an overwhelming situation for anyone to be in. Each of the personality types attempts to buffer itself from the full realization of the insecurity of its existence in different ways. Each type adopts different strategies for inflating the ego as a defens...

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