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Begin by completing the questionnaire on
page five. Then read a picture of your way. You many even
enjoy talking with spouse and offspring and friend of your
differences.
The authors are trainers of therapists and
diagnosticians of dysfunctional behavior at California State
University (Fullerton Campus). Impatient with the maturity
theories of Freud, Maslow, Erickson, Sheehey, Levinson,
and others, they insist that not everybody goes through
the same phases of growth to maturity. "You may have
an identity crisis or two, but I won't, haven't, and can't.
And it's not because I'm fixated, arrested, or hung up at
some immature stage, passage, or season of my life. I hear
different drummers."
Professor Keirsey is a long time clinical
psychologist of the gestalt-field-systems school. After
30 years of treating hundreds of teaching, parenting, marriage,
and management problems, Dr. Keirsey now challenges the
reader to "abandon the Pygmalion project," that
endless and fruitless attempt to change the Other into a
carbon copy of Oneself. "It's OK," he says, "to
marry your opposite and beget children who are far from
being chips off the old block, but it is not OK to take
marriage and parentage as license to sculpt spouse and child
using yourself as a pattern to copy. Put down your chisel.
Let be. Appreciate.
Keirsey adopted the theory of Psychological
Types of Carl Jung and the pioneering (and best selling)
method of measuring type of Isabel Myers in 1955 and ever
since has adapted his clinical practice to the perspective
of Jung-Myers typology. Please Understand Me provides
a useful vocabulary and phraseology for applying the Jung-Myers
concepts of type.
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