Functions of Type: Activities for Developing the Eight Jungian Functions

by Gary Hartzler, Margaret Hartzler

Functions of Type provides you with activities that you can use to strengthen your mental data-collection and decision-making skills. The specific mental skills that you will be better able to use are related to the eight psychological functions first defined by Carl Jung in his book, Psychological Types. Over the past hundred years, literally hundreds of type practitioners have been refining the definitions of the eight functions. Our own work has been to focus on how to make personal choices about our self-development using these refined definitions.

In Functions of Type, each of the eight functions is defined and the mental skills associated with the function are described. You are given a chance to assess your own comfort in using the mental skills associated with that function using a self-rating assessment. Then there are two pages of mini-exercises—called activities—that you can use to improve your mental skills associated with each function.

First published January 1, 2005

Reviews

[Kristina · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was pretty good. I think it explains cognitive functions in a way that a beginner could possibly understand. The book did have a sensor slant and I think sensors will possibly get more from it than intuitives will. There are concrete examples of each function along with ideas to improve functions, but don't expect anything too "deep".

[Kim Truong · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book contains in-depth explanations of each of the 8 cognitive functions, which is pretty basic, but the shining part are the examples of how these are expressed in everyday life. While the exercises themselves are valuable for recognizing personal blind spots, they have been illuminating for imagining how other types approach problems and honing in on others' possible MBTI types.

[ciannnnnnnnnnnnn · Rating 4 out of 5]

pretty interesting. turned out the online results were correct, i am INFP !

[Ciro · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent guidebook for understanding the cognitive functions. Solid exercises for consciously thinking about how to develop your weaker functions.