Enneatype patterns are widely understood as childhood “survival strategies”. While the resulting accounts can sound plausible enough, I will argue that this notion is essentially mistaken on both counts. First, type patterns are specifically shaped and driven by negative feelings about relationship that need to be better understood, rather than fear regarding physical survival. Second, type behaviors are more an expression of and reaction against those feelings, than e...
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