The best general introduction to the Enneagram, fully revised and expanded, featuring the scientifically validated Enneagram questionnaire, the RHETI version 2.5.

The leading experts in the field, Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson have set the standard for working with the Enneagram. Their development of this approach to self-understanding and their application of it to psychology, spirituality, and personal growth are relied on around the world.

Discovering Your Personality Type, The Essential Introduction to the Enneagram is the most accessible guide to the Enneagram system, a psychological framework that has many practical uses in daily life. This third edition has been expanded by over 100 pages of new material and contains many new features on how to recognize each type, its "hidden side" and motivations, its most important relationship issues, each type's main dynamics with the arrows, its three Instinctual Variants, and how each type can grow. The psychological and the spiritual aspects of the system, as well as business, parenting, and personal growth and other practical applications are clearly laid out by the best selling and most relied on authors in the field.

This new, third edition features the independently scientifically validated Riso-Hudson Enneagram Type Indicator (RHETI, version 2.5), as well as a wealth of new material that is invaluable to anyone interested in unlocking the secrets of personality. The RHETI is the only Enneagram test to produce a full-spectrum profile of all nine types and their relative strengths in the overall personality, making it the most revealing and useful way to determine type. The RHETI also suggests strategies for change and growth, with applications to relationships, professional development, education, vocational counseling, parenting, and more.

This easy-to-use book contains all you need to begin using the Enneagram to understand yourself and others more clearly.

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The Types as Psychological Functions
"Understood as a series of interrelated psychological Functions, the nine personality types of the Enneagram reveal the full range of one's personality. The balance of the Functions in each person produces that person's distinctive "fingerprint" or "signature"; while the basic type remains dominant, the other Functions in the overall pattern change over time.

"Looked at from the viewpoint of the Functions, our basic personality type can thus be seen for what it is\a dominant function (a mode of being) around which we have organized our central response to reality\while the other eight types represent the wide range of potentials that also exist in us."

TYPE TWO. The Functions of Empathy and Altruism

TYPE THREE. The Functions of Self-Esteem and Self-Development

TYPE FOUR. The Functions of Self-Awareness and Artistic Creativity

TYPE FIVE. The Functions of Open-Mindedness and Original Thinking

TYPE SIX. The Functions of Commitment and Social Affiliation

TYPE SEVEN. The Functions of Enthusiasm and Practical Action

TYPE EIGHT. The Functions of Self-Assertion and Leadership

TYPE NINE. The Functions of Acceptance and Receptivity

TYPE ONE. The Functions of Objectivity and Social Responsibility

Excerpted from Discovering Your Personality Type

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