Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence

It is this publisher’s suggestion that the classic texts devoted to Psychological Types combined with this classic text devoted to Archetypes comprise a solid foundation for the development of Emotional Intelligence.

The classic texts devoted to Psychological Types referred to here include Gifts Differing by Isabel Briggs Myers and the two Please Understand Me books by David Keirsey and Marilyn Bates.

The Appendix of this book About Men and Women provides an interesting clarification of how Archetypes differ from Psychological Types.  This Appendix is titled Archetypes and the MBTI.  The MBTI or Myers Briggs Type Inventory, which many are already familiar with, is a standard test for the determination of Psychological Types as defined in the book Gifts Differing.  A summary of the basic difference between the two as clarified in this Appendix is as follows: “Psychological Types and the MBTI help to explain how we communicate. Archetypes, the Great Stories, help to explain what we communicate.”