Mark Hunziker
37 / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: dream work, empathy, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), Feeling, fight, flight, freeze, INFJ, INTJ, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensation (Si), Mark Hunziker
January 22, 2019

She could not compete with me in the extraverted thinking mode that I (and our culture) insisted upon, so my well-meant out-reaching felt like attacks to her, and my peace offering of objective discussion was like a Viking’s looming battle-axe. Rather than take part in a Te confrontation that she couldn’t win, she had changed the rules, initiating an introverted feeling battle of attrition.
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Carol Shumate
36 / Culture and Cultural Typology
Tags: archetypal possession, authenticity, auxiliary function, Bruce Willis, collective, complex, Die Hard, Donald Trump, election, ESFP, ESTP, extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), Hamlet, Han Solo, Hillary Clinton, individuation, inferior function, INTJ, introverted intuition (Ni), introverted thinking (Ti), ISFP, ISTP, Jax Heller, Johnny Depp, judging function, judgment, leaders, leadership, Mafia, mob, perception, persona, persuasiveness, Pirates of the Caribbean, Polonius, presidency, president, projection, Robert Boozer, Sons of Anarchy, spontaneity, Star Wars, The Godfather, The Matrix, The Sopranos, Tony Soprano, type bias
October 4, 2018

Often extraverted sensing leaders are considered more authentic than other types. Trump’s supporters viewed him as trustworthy (“honest,” “outside of the political corruption,” and “not a liar”) while they viewed Clinton as untrustworthy (“belongs behind bars,” “cannot be trusted,” and “nothing but lies”). Even Clinton’s own supporters expressed concern about her trustworthiness.
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Cash Keahey
36 / Culture and Cultural Typology
Tags: Andrew Jackson, Bernie Sanders, Cash Keahey, democracy, Donald Trump, elitism, ESFP, ESTP, exclusive populism, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), inclusive populism, inflation, INTJ, introverted intuition (Ni), leadership, Lyndon B. Johnson, mob, populism, presidency, president, shadow, Theodore Roosevelt, type development
October 4, 2018

Populism has acquired a negative reputation, and this is especially true now with the presidency of Donald Trump, but many other political leaders have used extraverted sensation tactics and policies to rally the cause of the common man. This is true not only of Andrew Jackson—in whom extraverted sensation (Se) seems to be dominant—but also of Lyndon B. Johnson and Theodore Roosevelt.
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Casey Winter
34 / Archetypes
Tags: alexithymia, anorexia nervosa, Casey Winter, complex, death, Demonic/ Daimonic, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, eating disorders, Eternal Child, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), Hades, inferior function, INTJ, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensation (Si), Persephone, Puella Aeterna, rebirth, suicidal, Trickster
April 4, 2018

Anorexia nervosa can be understood as an archetypal death-rebirth process. A typological analysis shows a psychological syndrome based in archetypal possession resulting from the dynamic configuration of INTJ preferences. The individual with anorexia undertakes her own heroic psychospiritual journey through the underworld to transform personal and collective consciousness.
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Kiley Laughlin
33 / Organizations, Teams, and Career Development
Tags: Carol Dweck, CIA, cognitive bias, confirmation bias, Department of Defense (DoD), extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted thinking (Te), force multiplier, growth mindset, intelligence analysis, interpretation, INTJ, introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensation (Si), ISFJ, judging functions, judgment, KFOR, Kiley Laughlin, Kosovo, leadership, military intelligence, NATO, operational environment, Richard Heuer, type bias
January 10, 2018

Military intelligence is a personality-centric career field because of its reliance on the subjective factor, which tends to creep into every intelligence assessment regardless of how analytically rigorous it attempts to be. To help reduce bias, intelligence professionals have developed brainstorming analytic techniques so that an analytical cell can offset individual biases.
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Teresa Nowak
33 / Counseling, Coaching, and Psychotherapy
Tags: Animus, archetypal ego, archetypal psychology, Beebe, collective unconscious, Demon/Daimon, dream imagery, dream interpretation, dream tending, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), guided imagery, Hero, images, INTJ, introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensation (Si), introverted thinking (Ti), James Hillman, Mother, Opposing Personality, personal unconscious, personality spine, Puella Aeterna, Stephen Aizenstat, Teresa Nowak, Trickster, Witch
January 10, 2018

“Interpretations” of dreams must be filtered through a layer of consciousness. One contribution of dream tending as an effective tool for Jungian dream work is the value it places on the sensing function as an imaginal way of knowing. Thus, it de-emphasizes the intuitive and thinking functions many Jungians use in traditional dream analysis and brings sensing and feeling to the fore.
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Mark Hunziker
28 / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: ego, Eternal Child, extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), function-attitude, Heroic, INTJ, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted intuition (Ni), John Beebe, Mark Hunziker, Parent
September 8, 2016

I allowed myself to take a little vacation from my single-mindedness and felt a shift in attitude and awareness almost immediately. My linear, tunnel-vision mindset relaxed, and I began to notice and embrace information, insights, and opportunities that came along unexpectedly and felt important despite having no logical connection with the task at hand.
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The typical debate—‘Profiling is bad!’ vs. ‘We’re not profiling!’—has not been particularly productive. Racial and ethnic stereotyping continues despite decades of public condemnation. It seems to me that the questions we really need to be considering are more along the lines of: ‘What is profiling?’ ‘How and when does it lead to bad outcomes?’
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Sophia Dunn
22 / Culture and Cultural Typology
Tags: demonic, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted thinking (Te), family, INFJ, INFP, INTJ, INTP, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted thinking (Ti), Sensing, Sophia Dunn
January 7, 2015

In our home ‘to J’ is a commonly used verb. “Who J’d the gaffer tape?” means, “Who put the gaffer tape away somewhere where I can’t find it?” My J-preferenced housemates need predictable order; I need a multitude of choices always visibly at hand. They like surfaces clear and relatively tidy. I need everything out where I can see it.
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Chris Beach
21 / Counseling, Coaching, and Psychotherapy
Tags: Anima, Animus, Chris Beach, dream work, dreams, ENFJ, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted sensing (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), Hero, inferior function, INFP, INTJ, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted intuition (Ni), Parent, Senex, shadow, Trickster, Witch
October 1, 2014

If the dreamer is willing to work a dream from a psychological type perspective and the therapist has the knowledge to do so, then bringing type to dream work can be helpful. I utilize this approach either when I see an aspect of psychological type present or when I cannot make heads or tails of a dream by taking other approaches.
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Which functions do we use when we engage in Jung’s favorite form of internal reflection? Jung conceived of this unique form of meditation as a vehicle for building a bridge between consciousness and unconsciousness, and for connecting our personal unconscious with the collective unconscious. Introverted intuitives seem to embrace this exercise …
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Jennifer Soper
21 / Archetypes / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality / The Red Book
Tags: active imagination, Ammonius, Anima, C. G. Jung, collective unconscious, extraverted sensing (Se), Hero, individuation, INTJ, introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensing (Si), Jennifer Soper, mandala, personal unconscious, The Red Book, the Red One
October 1, 2014

First comes the development of the Hero; next is the “fall,” which brings awareness that something is missing, leading to the rejection of the heroic inflation and the longing for more. Then comes the real “journey,” holding the tension between our highly conscious dominant/superior function and our much less conscious inferior function.
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