Christopher Ross
38 / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: anger, Christopher Ross, control, demonic, ENFJ, ENTJ, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted thinking (Te), Hero, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted intuition (Ni), John Beebe, negotiating, parent archetype, parenting, past lives, reconciliation, tone
July 3, 2019

Later, I reflected that my tone, out of awareness at time of utterance, was the element to which she was reacting as a feeling type, and that my insistence on staying on topic showed up in her experience as my controlling her. Such was my first conscious application of Beebe’s sobering formulation of the monster-in-play when our eighth function breathes fire at another’s dominant function.
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Steve Myers
36 / Culture and Cultural Typology / Organizations, Teams, and Career Development
Tags: Andrew Samuels, authenticity, Bill George, C. G. Jung, collective unconscious, Edinger, ego-self axis, Epimetheus, hero myth, integrity, James MacGregor Burns, John Beebe, leadership, Lee Barr, opposites, personal unconscious, Prometheus, spine of personality, Steve Myers, transformation, transformational leadership
October 4, 2018

To develop our authentic individual self, we need to go deeper, into the cultural and phylogenetic layers of the collective unconscious. Importantly, from a leadership point of view, we become more aware of what our culture is repressing—aware of the unintended consequences of the culture even though we are participating in it. This enables us to progress, as individuals and as a society.
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Stephen T. Weed
31 / Research, Theory, and History
Tags: Beebe model, function couplings, function pairs, function-attitude couplings, INFJ, ISTJ, John Beebe, John Giannini, Robert McAlpine, Stephen Weed, Trickster, type development, type research
July 6, 2017

Giannini’s model differs importantly from Myers’ in that it does not restrict us to just one predominant function pair associated with one’s preferred perceiving and judging processes. His model provides a greater degree of flexibility in the developmental expression of type-related behaviors as well as enhanced adaptive power for engaging and responding to our various environments.
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Lisa A. Pounders
30 / Culture and Cultural Typology
Tags: Chocolat (film), culture, Daimonic, demonic, Eight-Function Model, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), Hero, individuation, inferior function, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted sensation (Si), ISFJ, ISFP, ISTJ, John Beebe, Lasse Hallström, Lisa Pounders, Opposing Personality, Parent, shadow
April 5, 2017

“Once upon a time, there was a quiet little village in the French countryside whose people believed in tranquillité.” This opening indicates that the psychological orientation of the village is one of peace and calmness, agreeability and order, suggesting that the village has certain values through which it judges situations—in other words a feeling function is at work.
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John Beebe
30 / Culture and Cultural Typology / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: aesthetic attitude, cultural attitudes, depth psychology, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), introverted feeling (Fi), introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensation (Si), introverted thinking (Ti), John Beebe, Joseph Henderson, Jungian analysis, philosophical attitude, psychological attitude, psychotherapy, religious attitude, social attitude
April 5, 2017

Individuation is attractive as a therapeutic goal, but adaptation, even to a self that analytic work has brought into focus, can continue to be a challenge. I have come to feel that one of my jobs as a therapist is to help the person working with me develop an attitude that can negotiate culture comfortably— one adequate to bridge the gulf between irreducibly individual self and continuously demanding world.
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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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Carol Shumate
18 / Research, Theory, and History
Tags: Adler, Carol Shumate, Freud, Introverted Intuition, introverted sensation, John Beebe, John Giannini, Jung, Jungians, observer effect, Sonu Shamdasani
February 5, 2014

A separation exists between psychology and typology. Many psychologists and even many Jungians ignore Jung’s major work, Psychological Types, and the concepts underlying it. The field has been left mostly to lay practitioners, who use the MBTI® instrument for training, coaching, and other pragmatic applications. What reasons do you see for the divide?
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Vicky Jo Varner
17 / Archetypes
Tags: A Trip to the Moon, Anima, Animus, archetype, Critical Parent, Daimon, Demon, Eros, Eternal Child, extraverted feeling, Extraverted Intuition, extraverted sensing, extraverted thinking, Fe, Fi, Georges Méliès, Good Parent, Hero, Hugo, individuation, INTP, introverted feeling, Introverted Intuition, introverted thinking, John Beebe, Logos, Martin Scorsese, Ne, Ni, Opposing Personality, Puer Aeternus, Se, Te, Ti, Trickster, Vicky Jo Varner, Witch
November 5, 2013

“Everything has a purpose, clocks tell you the time, trains take you to places. Machines never come with any extra parts, you know. They always come with the exact amount they need. So I figured if the entire world was one big machine, I couldn’t be an extra part. I had to be here for some reason. And that means you have to be here for some reason, too. ”
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Shen Heyong, Yu Meng, Yin Fang
15 / Culture and Cultural Typology
Tags: analytical psychology, Anima, China, Chinese Federation for Analytical Psychology, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted sensing (Se), Garden of the Heart-Soul, I Ching, individuation, inferior function, inferiority complex, INFJ, integrity, International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP), introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensing (Si), ISTJ, John Beebe, Opposing Personality, shadow, Shen Heyong, Taoism, transcendent function, Yin Fang, Yu Meng
June 5, 2013

China has emphasized Se and Ne, leaving itself at present with a relatively weak Ni, even though Ni is China’s natural superior function and its historical birthright. A strong Ni, for example was the consciousness that gave birth to the three great Chinese religions: Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism, all of which anticipated Jung’s notion of the Self.
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Hanne Urhøj
13 / Archetypes / Culture and Cultural Typology
Tags: archetype, Bob Dylan, complex, Divine Child, Eternal Child, extraverted feeling, extraverted thinking, Father complex, Fe, Fi, Good Parent, Hanne Urhoj, introverted feeling, Introverted Intuition, introverted thinking, I’m not there, John Beebe, Ni, Puer Aeternus, Senex, shadow, Te, Ti, Todd Haynes, Trickster
January 8, 2013

The portrait of Bob Dylan in the film “I’m not there” demonstrates how a lack of father-specific structure is compensated by a powerful and extraordinarily creative but volatile and defenseless Puer structure; and the movie further illustrates the tendency of the Shadow complexes to rise to repair such psychic vulnerabilities and restore equilibrium.
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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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Robert McAlpine
11 / Research, Theory, and History
Tags: archetype, auxiliary, C. G. Jung, Critical Parent, dominant, ENFJ, ESTJ, extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), function-attitudes, inferior, introverted sensation (Si), introverted thinking (Ti), Isabel Myers, ISTJ, ISTP, John Beebe, MBTI, mental processes, Opposing Personality, preferences, Robert McAlpine, Sensing, tertiary, thinking
September 5, 2012

The type code had another unintended effect, which was to elevate the E-I and the J-P dichotomies to the same level as the functions. I had always thought of myself as an Introvert and nothing else. I had also been taught that I was a Judging type and I had been told that “J’s decide quickly,” but that was not true for me. So there were holes in my preference framework where my experience did not fit what I was taught.
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