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Childhood Wounds Understanding the Enneagram

February 4, 2026February 12, 2026

The Conversation # 30

Susan Rhodes, Jack Labanauskas, Carolyn Bartlett, Liz Wagele, Carl Marsak, Clarence Thomson, Bill Dyke Susan Rhodes: As you know, I have some interest in...

by Susan Rhodes, Jack Labanauskas, Carolyn Bartlett, Liz Wagele, Carl Marsak, Clarence Thomson, Bill Dyke

The Hot Death Blood of Sylvia Plath

Edward McInnis Don Richard Riso, in Personality Types, calls the levels of the unhealthy Four, in descending order: “the Alienated Depressive,” the Emotionally Tormented...

by Edward McInnis October 14, 2025October 3, 2025

Childhood Wounds Spirituality

The Sacred Enneagram – Nature or Nurture?

So where does our Enneagram type come from? How is it formed within us? The Enneagram’s nine ways or nine types describe the raw...

by Christopher L. Heuertz November 26, 2024February 26, 2025

Childhood Wounds Understanding the Enneagram

Our World View: The Stories We Tell Ourselves as kids

The stories we tell ourselves as kids are the partial, somewhat distorted worldview we adopted when we were young based on our dominant Enneagram...

by Monica Hunter October 24, 2024October 25, 2024

Childhood Wounds Passions Type Insights Understanding the Enneagram

The Regret of the basic fault:

Healing the Original Wound with Psychoanalytic Insight and Mourning A Response to the Work of Antonio Barbato Carl Marsak “If the flesh came into...

by Carl Marsak June 4, 2024June 3, 2024

Childhood Wounds Instincts and Subtypes

Ego, Essence and Instincts, Today

Antonio Barbato I have stated in The Enneagram of the Originary Wound that, according to the Enneagram of Character Types or Personalities (hereinafter ET)...

by Antonio Barbato October 1, 2020September 12, 2023

Childhood Wounds Therapy and Counselling

Trauma, Choice, and Paradise Lost

The impact of the Enneagram, from its significant beginnings with the publication of the first book in 1984 (by Maria Beesing, Robert Nogosek and...

by Francis J. McGarry May 1, 2020September 12, 2023

Childhood Wounds Understanding the Enneagram

You’re just like your mother: A study of integrational personality type

A question which arises frequently in Enneagram gatherings is the extent to which Enneagram types cross generations. Is there an association between the Enneagram...

by Dora Levinson & Jim Levinson May 1, 2020September 12, 2023