The Enneagram - by Helen Palmer (Paperback)

About the Book

This is the first definitive guide to the Enneagram and its nine distinct personality types. It show how to recognize your own type and those of the people you are involved with personally and at work. It also teaches ways to capitalize on the strengths of your type, handle its weaknesses, and thereby achieve your full potential.

From the Back Cover

It would be impossible for most of us to spend a day without coming into direct or indirect contact with dozens of people family, friends, people in the street, at the office, on television, in our fantasies and fears. Our relationships with others are the most changeable, infuriating, pleasurable and mystifying elements in our lives.

Personality types, based on the ancient system of the Enneagram, will help you to enjoy more satisfying and fulfilling relationships in all areas of your life by introducing you to the nine basic personality types inherent in human nature. This knowledge will help you better understand how others think and why they behave as they do, as well as increasing your awareness of your own individual personality.

Written by the leading world authority on the Enneagram, it offers a framework for understanding ourselves and those around us, as well as a wealth of practical insights for anyone interested in psychology, counselling, teaching, social work, journalism and personal management.

Review Quotes

Provides help in understanding the good qualities of a more evolved life. - San Francisco Chronicle
Palmer's historical and clinical accounting is solid and her reasoning insightful. The Enneagram system can help us understand people as they see themselves. - Training and Development Journal
Explores the mysteries of personality and points the way to the cultivation of extraordinary abilities. - Yoga Journal
A book for both the psychologically sophisticated and for ordinary people as well. - New Realities Magazine
[Palmer's] focus on the practical import of this unique personality system gives her book special power, the power to transform. - American Humanistic Psychology Review