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Summary: An excellent overview of this model
Review: Please Understand Me is a wonderful introduction to the fascinating study of temperament, something that has enriched my life immeasurably. It is a very valuable tool and provides great insight into dealing with people. I recommend, especially in this election year, also reading "Presidential Temperament" by Keirsey and Choiniere. In looking at 41 men who all held the same job, the different temperaments come through clearly in these profiles, deepening one's ability to note patterns of behavior that help to identify the 4 basic styles in anyone encountered in life--whether a political candidate, employer, teacher, family member, etc--use of this system for looking at others, improves with finding real life examples for purposes of comparing and contrasting.
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Summary: This Book Changed My Life
Review: I'll try to keep it short- the negative reviewers must not have really read this incredible book. I read it in 1980 while in college and found out the reason why I always felt like an "alien" in grade school even though I was popular. Reading about my ENTP temperament finally allowed me to appreciate parts of myself and not compare myself to all my SJ and SP friends! It even made me appreciate a family member that before I thought I'd never get along with. I mistook her non-verbal personality as hostile- then she took the test and I found out she was an ISFP- I felt like I was looking into her very (artistic) soul as I read the words that described her exactly. Now I value her deeply. I've given this book to many friends who all agree with me that above any other "self helper" none other even comes close to the insight this offers. I'm using it with my high school students this spring. (Thanks Xerox!)
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Summary: A Very Important Book
Review: This is a very important book. Everyone should read it. I use the models contained in this book every day. Being aware of people's personalities and their flaws make personal relationships run just a little bit smoother. I can't wait to read the follow-up to this book.
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Summary: I don't get it...
Review: I have been forced by my students to take the test. I also read part of the book and loathed it. I'd never use it in class. How dare they limit the human psychology to such words? The Human is much more complicated then this book claims and the feet-long explications just don't cut it. Of course they fit most people! And those idiotically naive questions... how can you guess anything by them? For every shallow person who doesn't understand his own self, this might be a sort-of-illumination. For everyone else who prefers digging deeper in the human psychology...skip it..--Everybody repeat after me: We Are All Individuals!-- Hum, ENTP here. Duh...
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Summary: Best book with the worst title
Review: I teach in the business department of a community college, and I have recommended and loaned this book to over 50 students over the past decade. (This is why I'm about to purchase my 20th-22nd copies of this book. It gets stolen.) Students of varying ethnic backgrounds have found this book useful. It helps in career direction, understanding roadblocks in school and in personal relationships and it is particularly useful in dealing with work relationships. I find it invaluable as a framework for seeing situations from the viewpoints of others and to give me the courage to accept my own views even when they are not the same as the views of my colleagues. Some of my students have resisted the book's whiny title. I tell them it should be titled: How to be successful and insightful, even when dealing with difficult people and situations, at work and at home.
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Summary: This book is exactly right!
Review: My friends and I took the test and it fit each of our personalities perfectly! This is a very helpful book. 'ESFP' right here, baby!
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Summary: Great Book
Review: If you're looking for who you are, and how to deal with others, this book will give you insight on how to do it. Check it out. ENTP here!
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Summary: The single most accessible source for type psychology
Review: Kerisey and Bates make an understanding and application of type psychology available to anyone who is motivated to learn it. I have other references on Myers-Briggs/Jungian type psychology, such at the GUIDE TO THE DEVELOPMET AND USE OF THE MYERS-BRIGGS TYPE INDICATOR from the Consulting Psychologists Press. The Guide is full of stiff explanations and tests of statistical validity -- important for researchers but less helpful in understanding other people. PLEASE UNDERSTAND ME is rich in usable information: excerpts from literature that demonstrate a type, practical examples that can be seen daily. This book serves not only as an introduction to this fascinating and important topic but also as a long-term reference for those who wish to obtain deeper levels of understanding about type psychology and people.
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Summary: Good... entertainment value (at least)
Review: Well, okay, I didn't exactly read the entire book; I just came across it (a friend had it and was raving about it) and I've read about a third of the book. I'd agree with some other reviewer, who said that the book asks you about adjectives (ten times each, just in case you don't know the definition of an adjective) and then tells you what adjectives you chose. Yes, this is an oversimplification, but not by much... Those things that are not "by definition" true in the descriptions (there are some), are often not very well justified (instead the authors go about rephrasing the same things). However, the book was at least quite entertaining (more so than those silly "tests" in, um, Cosmo and such mags, I guess --- hopefully the authors have nothing to do with those...? ;-) and although not extremely profound (in the sense I described above), was not all that uninteresting. I'm also a bit lenient in my rating, since I haven't read it entirely. Oh, in case you're wondering... I'm an INTP according to the book...
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Summary: Enables us to understand ourselves and others more clearly.
Review: Helps us know how we are alike and why we differ from others. Encourages us to see the light through another's eyes. An awareness of our own unique talents enables us to develop and guides us to areas not considered before.Why waste talent? Find out what type of work, play and life suits best. Outside influences may invite us to stray from our own true nature. Honor differences but celebrate uniqueness too. Signed by an ISFP looking to develop hidden artistic abilities!!
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