Personality Types: A Systems Science Explanation (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781419673078)

Lowen partitions 'mental space' four times to yield 16 'cognitive skills, ' and 'consciousness' develops as the skills awaken and begin to interact. He provides unique definitions, symbols and functions for each skill, as well as the sequence and general time frame in which they develop. What brings his model to life are his ingenious ideas about how information flows among the skills at different levels of consciousness, leading to personality types, short- and long-term memories, inputs and behavioral outputs. In the 16 personality 'profiles' that emerge from the model, each uses all 16 skills but at different levels of consciousness. To stimulate one's creativity, Lowen suggests engaging one's least conscious 'processing mode'; i.e., kinesthetic (SF), tactile (ST), verbal (NF) or intellectual (NT). While Jung's famous 'psychological preferences' (extroversion, introversion, etc.) are embedded in the model and largely compatible with it, they are not primary to its basic structure

Author: Walter Lowen, Lawrence Miike
ISBN-10: 1419673076
ISBN-13: 9781419673078
Publisher: Booksurge Publishing
Language: English
Published: 11/30/2007
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.01w x 0.64d