Jung's Personality Theory Quantified

by Douglass J. Wilde

Jung's Personality Theory Quantified fills an urgent need for professionals using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI) to map it on to the cognitive modes of Jung’s personality theory, avoiding potential logical errors in the traditional “type dynamics” method. It furthers Jung’s original concepts while placing them on a solid axiomatic basis not possessed by other personality theories. Bringing these quantitative findings to the millions of MBTI users – managers, consultants, counsellors, teachers, psychoanalysts and human resource professionals – will require further education of those already certified to administer the instrument according to type dynamics. For this reason numerical exercises follow most chapters to make the book a source reference for briefer workbooks usable in enhanced certification programs. Backed by quantitative theory and new graphical methods, the pioneering qualitative typology work of Myers and Briggs is thus extended to yield deeper understanding of the vital topics of human personality, creativity and human relations. Jungian psychoanalysts may find Jung's Personality Theory Quantified helpful in organizing complicated clinical information and it can also enhance the work of MBTI practitioners worldwide.

131 pages, Hardcover

First published January 6, 2011

Reviews

[Seymour · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's a shame that this book is so expensive, since I think it's a solid addition to to type theory after Reynierse's articles in Journal of Personality Type. Wilde provides a quantitative model based on preferences not being dichotomous, and on the strength of preference matters. This model provides a way of calculating cognitive-function-like strengths. Such a model can be helpful when building teams with more balanced strengths of perspectives.

I think Wilde provides a useful way of keeping some of the flavor of cognitive processes/functions in light of empirical data fails to prove the traditional Jungian/MBTI type dynamics model.