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  • Understanding the Enneagram
    • Centers of Intelligence
    • Triads
    • Passions
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    • Virtues
    • Holy Ideas
    • History
  • The Nine Types
    • Type Insights
      • Type 1
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      • Type 5
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Type 4

History Type 4 Type Insights

The Sacred Ideas of Type Four

Sacred Origin, Sacred Romance, Sacred Longing Stephen K. Hatch Fours understand that they, like everyone else, are innately unique and original. It makes sense,...

by Stephen K. Hatch January 4, 2026January 4, 2026
Personal Growth/Self-Development Type 4 Understanding the Enneagram

Roy Orbison and Lost Love

Edward McInnis Fours tend to avoid the present moment to brood on the past or rehearse on idealized future. This is especially apparent in...

by Edward McInnis November 24, 2025November 10, 2025
Business/Workplace Leadership and Management Personal Growth/Self-Development Type 1 Type 4 Type 7

What Type of Leader are You: Part 3

Ginger Lapid-Bogda Excerpt from What Type of Leader Are You? Using the Enneagram System to Identify and Grow Your Leadership Strengths and Achieve Maximum...

by Ginger Lapid-Bogda October 27, 2025October 27, 2025
Business/Workplace Leadership and Management Personal Growth/Self-Development Type 3 Type 4 Type 5 Type 8

Lions and Tigers and Suits, Oh My!

Bill Dyke I was surprised to see myself described in the February Enneagram Monthly. Ms. Olga Allen wrote of “Bird brained white men in...

by Bill Dyke October 24, 2025October 24, 2025
Childhood Wounds Fixations Passions Type 4 Understanding the Enneagram

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
MBTI Personal Growth/Self-Development Process Enneagram Type 4 Type 5 Understanding the Enneagram

Let’s De-pathologize the Enneagram!

Susan Rhodes “Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented, and happy attitudes, and your days will be pleasant and successful.” -- Norman Vincent Peale...

by Susan Rhodes September 22, 2025September 10, 2025
Family Dynamics Instincts and Subtypes Personal Growth/Self-Development Type 4 Type 5

Touchstone Column

Sexual Four and Self-Pres Five: May Love Flourish and Last? David Daniels M.D. Dear Dr. Daniels, First of all thank you for your column....

by Dr. David Daniels September 13, 2025September 11, 2025
Personal Growth/Self-Development Relationships Therapy and Counselling Type 4 Type 7 Understanding the Enneagram

Romantic-Adventurer (Four-Seven) Couple

Jennifer P. Schneider M.D. and Ron Corn Here is another chapter from our reference book, Understand Yourself, Understand Your Partner: The Essential Enneagram Guide...

by Jennifer P. Schneider M.D. and Ron Corn August 15, 2025August 15, 2025
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