Carol Shumate
24 / Professional Development for Type-Practitioners
Tags: Adam Grant, ambiversion, ambivert, Carol Shumate, confirmation bias, Daniel Pink, differentiation, Extraversion, individuation, Introversion, Jung & Adler & Freud, normal vs. pathological, Sonu Shamdasani, the personal equation, type bias, type development
July 1, 2015

“Ambiversion”—the equal development of extraversion and introversion in an individual—has become a popular notion of late but it has led to some misinterpretations of Jung’s typology—specifically, to an idealization of this in-between state …
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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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