Peter O'Hanrahan
Thanks to Susan Rhodes for her latest article proposing that Enneagram type (or perhaps archetype) is present at birth. When first studying the Enneagram in Berkeley in the 1970s, an exciting time to be sure, we were strongly influenced by a psychoanalytical perspective. Before Enneagram books, we looked for descriptions of personality types, in terms of development and neurotic styles, in the work of Karen Horney, David Shapiro, and the object relations writers. We found a lot...

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