Pygmalion Project: Love & Coercion Among the Types, Vol. 2: The Guardian

by Stephen E. Montgomery

The second part of Dr. Stephen Montgomery's quartet on love and coercion among the types focuses on the Guardians (SJ) uniquely responsible style of caring for others. Montgomery has selected characters from works of Jane Austen, Sinclair Lewis, Virginia Woolf, and half a dozen other authors to bring to life the Guardian's parental way in love and marriage, and to illustrate their earnest style of interpersonal manipulation, what Keirsey calls the Pygmalion Project. The book examines Guardians both as instigators and as victims of marital games with the Rationals (NT), the Idealists (NF) and particularly with the childlike Artisans (SP). If you have a Guardian spouse (or even a Guardian parent), this book will help you understand and appreciate them.

255 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1989

Reviews

[Jenniferwelch · Rating 1 out of 5]

Its possible I didnt understand the books' description but all this is is a summary of various characters in classic literature that fit the Guardian type. The book is supposedly focused on romantic relationships but it only addresses the Guardian-Artisan combination, which I found very oddly specific. Im not sure who this book was written for...