How the ego gains control part 2

Step by Step, Through the Process of a Type Eight
Kathy Hurley and Ted Dobson
Gloria Davenport’s article “The Illusory System of the Nine Enneagram Patterns” brings to light a useful aspect of Enneagram teaching that we find highlighted by few other Enneagram teachers. Presented in its fullness in Chapter 4 of our book, What’s My Type? (Harper San Francisco, 1992), it reveals a mind game each type creates for itself that both fuels the compulsion and prevents us from seeing that there are other ...