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    • Passions
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    • Virtues
    • Holy Ideas
    • History
  • The Nine Types
    • Type Insights
      • Type 1
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Type Insights

Instincts and Subtypes Type 3

Self Preservation Three: Security

Antonio Barbato In this subtype, there is a strong belief to know what is right to do. This belief comes, obviously, from Deceit. The...

by Antonio Barbato February 3, 2024February 7, 2024
Instincts and Subtypes Type 2

self-Preservation Two: Emperor or Goddess

Antonio Barbato When Ambition and Aggression are not mitigated by the Self-Preservation Instinct, the desire to have a particular role, a special importance, is...

by Antonio Barbato February 2, 2024February 7, 2024
Instincts and Subtypes Type 1 Understanding the Enneagram

Self-preservation one: preoccupation

Antonio Barbato As we know, in type One, Wrath turns into a stimulus to make things better than ever, to spend energies in the...

by Antonio Barbato February 1, 2024February 7, 2024
Education Type 9 Type Insights Understanding the Enneagram

The Love Handles of J. Alfred Prufrock

In The Literary Enneagram, Characters from the Inside Out, Judith Searle says that “T.S. Eliot’s poem ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ offers...

by Edward McInnis January 12, 2024January 16, 2024
Personal Growth/Self-Development Type 9 Understanding the Enneagram

Exploring Type Nine, the Mediator

(Republished for Enneagram Monthly online) Every one of us, if we wish to transform ourselves, must face our dark side. By this, I mean...

by Connie Duckett August 2, 2023October 5, 2023
Therapy and Counselling Type 8

Eights In Psychotherapy

(Republished for Enneagram Monthly online) Presentation in Therapy  • Many Eights have a big energy and a noticeable intensity • They are usually forthright...

by Carolyn Bartlett August 1, 2023September 26, 2023
History The Nine Types Type Insights

Enneagram type Description

Dr. Bill Gamard The following is an updated version of the descriptions in my Ph.D. dissertation (“Interrater Validity and Reliability of Judgments of Enneagram...

by Bill Gamard April 1, 2021February 1, 2024
Therapy and Counselling Type 2

Twos in Psychotherapy

•  Two clients can be engaging, seductive and flattering towards therapists •  They may be attractively dressed and use eye contact to establish a...

by Carolyn Bartlett February 1, 2021October 6, 2023
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