Dr. Keirsey examines in detail the ingrained attitudes and habitual actions of the four basic personality types: the Artisans, Guardians, Rationals, and Idealists. Keirsey summarizes the four temperaments, showing how behaviour of each is either concrete or abstract, cooperative or pragmatic, directive or informative, and finally assertive or responsive. The book includes two brief self-scoring personality tests to assist in observing the differences and similarities among us.

Portraits of Temperament

Keirsey, David

Reference

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The first part of Dr. Stephen Montgomery's quartet on love and coercion among the types focuses on the Artisans (SP) playful and charming way in relations with Guardian (SJ), Rational (NT), Idealist (NF) partners. Begin by completing Keirsey's personality test, then read about the Artisan mating game, how they delight and dismay their loved ones, as presented in the pages of D.H. Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and eight other authors. More importantly learn more about Keirsey's concept of the Pygmalion Project, how we are manipulated by them in return. If you've ever been in love with an Artisan (or ever been fooled by one), The Pygmalion Project will prove fascinating reading.

The Pygmalion Project, Vol. I: The Artisans (Love & Coercion Among the Types)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Montgomery, Stephen E.

Psychology & Counseling

The second part of Dr. Stephen Montgomery's quartet on love and coercion among the types focuses on the Guardians (SJ) uniquely responsible style of caring for others. Montgomery has selected characters from works of Jane Austen, Sinclair Lewis, Virginia Woolf, and half a dozen other authors to bring to life the Guardian's parental way in love and marriage, and to illustrate their earnest style of interpersonal manipulation, what Keirsey calls the Pygmalion Project. The book examines Guardians both as instigators and as victims of marital games with the Rationals (NT), the Idealists (NF) and particularly with the childlike Artisans (SP). If you have a Guardian spouse (or even a Guardian parent), this book will help you understand and appreciate them.

Pygmalion Project: Love & Coercion Among the Types, Vol. 2: The Guardian

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

Twenty of the American Presidents were Guardians, fourteen were Artisans, eight were Rationalists, and none were Idealists. Half of them did what was sanctioned by law, the rest did what would get the job done, with or without legal authority. Their inborn temperament and acquired methods for getting results pre-determined their results before, during, and after their presidency. The authors say temperament dominates circumstances in determining presidential behaviour, in war and peace, in prosperity and depression, in domestic and foreign politics.

Presidential Temperament: The Unfolding of Character in the Forty Presidents of the United States/With Supplement

Biographies & Memoirs

Choiniere, Ray

Leaders & Notable People

This book is excellent for understanding your own character and it is in new conditions. No marks or breaks on any of the pages.

Please Understand Me: Character & Temperment Types

Self-Help

Bates, Marilyn

Relationships

Rev. ed. of: Please understand me. 3rd ed. c1978.

Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence

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