Character and Neurosis: An Integrative View

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Summary: The cream of the crop
Review: An absolute standard! Pure therapy! The mirror is there, now you just need to face it.

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Summary: Very professional and deep. Good documentation
Review: Claudio Naranjo describes very deeply the main characterisics of each type of personality. He makes comparision between different typology theories for example DSM-III, Homeophatic tradition and others. Recomended for all who really want to know the structure and dynamics that interact and the different motivations of each Enneatype. I have started teaching Enneagram at my city (it is not know) and the students have become enthusiasitc about it.

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Summary: The Classic Work on the Enneagram of Personality
Review: Dr Naranjo has written the most definitive and difficult work on the enneagram of personality to date and anyone who really wants to understand him/herself in a deep way, needs to climb this mountain. The language is quite subtle and full of careful distinctions, and while it lacks insight into subtypes (except on occassion and in the case of the Six), it contains the core of the knowledge about the enneagram as a system of self-understanding and awakening. The good doctor is enigmatic and infuriating at times, but those who hang tough and make the required effort will be well rewarded. The other enneagram books read more easily but lack the deep insight which Naranjo seems to capture. No one should claim to know this rich body of knowledge, much less teach it, without having mastered this book.