Letter from the Editor July 2024
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27 Characters in Search of a Self
Claudio Naranjo What these 27 Characters in Search of a Self have in common is the applicability of the enneagram to personality. For those...
Comparative Systems Editorial and News Fourth way History Process Enneagram Understanding the Enneagram
The Musical Scale
Gurdjieff applied the octave of the musical scale to the Enneagram. He used a diagram similar to the one below: In the Western musical...
Notes on Psychodynamic Therapy — Transformation in the Present and the Limits of Analyzing the Past
Michael Damian, Ph.D. I recently found myself writing to a patient as follows: Perhaps you are doubtful about searching for all the causes for...
Let’s Recontextualize the Enneagram
In April 2007, I wrote an EM article discussing the relationship between the personality and process enneagrams.1 One of the things I noticed when...
Venus: Close encounter of the fourth subtype
Bernadette Schmitt and Frederic Schmitt, M.D Birth of Venus Sandro Botticelli (1486) Ouranos (a.k.a. Uranus in Greek or Caelus for the Romans) is a...
Unlocking the Enneagram Part 2
Arthur Kranz M.D. The Gurdjieff Enneagram is not a static diagram, but one of dynamic change like a clock. The Enneagram symbol generates the...
27 Characters in Search of a Self
Claudio Naranjo What these 27 Characters in Search of a Self have in common is the applicability of the enneagram to personality. For those...