Passions Archives - Enneagram Monthly

October 14, 2025October 3, 2025

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

Editorial and News Passions Understanding the Enneagram

Core Dynamics: Poisons & Passions

John Harper The relative mind is associative by nature. It tries to fit everything it can into its favored understanding; into the construct, model...

by John Harper August 16, 2025August 15, 2025

Fixations Passions

The Lines Are the Basic Building Blocks of the Enneagram, Not the Points (Revisited)

When we think of the Enneagram, most of us fixate on the points—the nine numbers that seem to define who we are. But here’s...

by Michael J. Goldberg January 18, 2025January 28, 2025

Latest Research Passions The Nine Types Understanding the Enneagram

passion and counterpassion

Fabien and Patricia Chabreuil [Editor’s Note: Two years later... after the proposal of the “Unified Model of the Enneagram” and the Rebuttal by Kathy...

by Fabien and Patricia Chabreuil December 29, 2024December 5, 2024

Centers of Intelligence History Instincts and Subtypes Passions Understanding the Enneagram

Discovering a “Recipe” for The Nine Enneagram Compulsions

A Response to “Steps to a Unified Model of the Enneagram” Kathy Hurley and Theodorre Donson In Fabien and Patricia Chabreuil’s article, “Steps to...

by Kathy Hurley and Theodorre Donson December 28, 2024December 4, 2024

Passions Type 7 Type Insights Understanding the Enneagram

Botero, Art In Service Of A Visionary

"I don’t paint fat women, nor do I represent men, animals, landscapes, or fruit with the aim of communicating sensuality through form. I like...

by Angela Carcatella October 2, 2024January 11, 2025

Passions Triads Type Insights Understanding the Enneagram

Subtypes: A Paradigm shift & Integrative View

Frederic and Bernadette Schmitt Naranjo was the first to match the personality disorders of DSM IV with Enneagram types (Character and Neurosis), but before...

by Frederic and Bernadette Schmitt September 22, 2024September 4, 2024

Astrology Editorial and News History Holy Ideas Passions Triads

Space & Time: Dimensions of Existence Part 2

Jack Labanauskas As a brief recap of the points made in Part 1 of Space and Time in the last issue (EM #227), I...

by Jack Labanauskas September 7, 2024August 20, 2024

Holy Ideas Instincts and Subtypes Passions Virtues

subtypes revisited part 2

Gloria Davenport Instinctual Subtypes in Relation to Essence In Ennea-type Structures, (1990, p.5.), Naranjo presents an intriguing diagram of his perception of how we...

by Gloria Davenport August 22, 2024August 21, 2024