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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator offers a clear, nonjudgmental way to better understand personality.
Chapter 3: The MBTI rests on Carl Jung’s theories, which are widely unscientific and unsubstantiated.
Chapter 4: While creating the MBTI, Katharine Briggs became obsessed with Carl Jung.
Chapter 5: Early twentieth-century society was eager to embrace Katharine Briggs’s first personality questionnaires.
Chapter 6: For some philosophers, the very idea of personality typing seemed dangerous and oppressive.
Chapter 7: The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator lacks scientific validity yet can still be useful.
Description
The Personality Brokers (2018) explores the origins and enduring appeal of the preeminent personality test. Drawing on detailed historical research, as well as recent psychological insights, these blinks detail the origins of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, and what the test can really tell us about the nature of human beings.
Who Should Listen
- Anyone interested in psychology
- Those who enjoy stories about inspiring women
- Sociology buffs looking for new insights into twentieth-century society