In an article published in the first edition of Enneagram Journal, “Understanding the Development of Personality Type,”1 author Bea Chestnut describes the parallels she sees between the tripartite enneagram and three stages of early personality development as described in the psychoanalytic literature. She argues that the enneagram and psychoanalysis share a common perspective on the nature of human personality—the idea that personality is the outcome of early condition...
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