Mark Hunziker
27 / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: ego, ego-dystonic, ego-syntonic, function-attitudes, identity, INTP, Mark Hunziker, shadow, type development, world views
April 6, 2016

Within the function-attitude preference hierarchy for each type, there are three natural groupings which seem to reflect a “Me, Spirit, and Other” delineation and describe our areas of “strength, vulnerability and creativity, and defense,” respectively. Is it more than a coincidence that this configuration has parallels in most traditional world views, as “Earth, Heaven, and Underworld?”
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Is differentiation of an ego-syntonic function-attitude somehow different from differentiation of an ego-dystonic FA? Or maybe differentiation works the same for all function-attitudes and it’s just in the subsequent integration process that the distinction between ego-syntonic and ego-dystonic comes into play. Do we need a more refined understanding of typological development?
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Maryann Barone-Chapman
13 / Archetypes / Counseling, Coaching, and Psychotherapy
Tags: Anima, Animus, Beebe, complex, demonic, dreams, ego-dystonic, ego-syntonic, Eight-Function Model, ENTP, Extraversion, extraverted feeling, extraverted sensing, extraverted thinking, Father, Fe, Fi, Good Parent, Hero, Heroine, inferior function, inferiority, Introversion, introverted feeling, introverted intuiting, introverted thinking, ISTP, John Beebe, Maryann Barone-Chapman, Mother, Ni, Opposing Personality, Puella, Puer, Se, Senex, shadow, Te, Ti, Trickster, type falsification, Witch
January 8, 2013

In a dream she showed up as twins. One who was quiet and could play by herself (like her father, Ti) and the other who was very precocious as she hung upside down from a tree (like her mother, Te), reflecting the inherent nature of the Opposing Personality. From the outset of our work her battle seemed to reflect inferiority about not being an extravert.
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