News of the Type Community

Bob McAlpine, President of Type Resources, was recently recognized at the type guru banquet.

Carol Kallendorf, Ph.D. has been awarded the Type and Violence Award in New York City.

Linda Berens has been promoted to legendary writer  in California.

Who Really Owns Carl Jung
in the 21st Century?

By Jack Speer, Editor in Chief

It's just a guess, but I would guess that Carl Jung would be shocked if he came back to find out that this scientist, psychotherapist, mystic, philosopher had become a household industry.

Jung developed his theories in the mental hospitals of Germany at the beginning of the 21st Century.  His definitions of Introversion and extroversion came from his study of two dueling psychological theories.  Myers and Briggs deduced the applied theory that become their famous Myers-Briggs Type Indicator from the study of Psychological Types, first published in 1922.  The famous mother-daughter duo made one ill fainted attempted to visit Jung, who did not receive them because of illness.

Yet out of the efforts of these two women, an assessment was developed that is administered to two million people around the world. 

In the Type Community .

. . .  Appreciating Differences is an Acquired Taste

In our own particular universe, we use MBTI(R) to get business teams to open up and to share open and honest communication. 

In most cases, it doesn't feel good in the beginning.  We've used closed communication to protect ourselves and the group from the annoying aspects of truth and frankness--not to mention all that fighting a quarrelling.

Over time they enjoy being able to say what's on their mind.  But listening to our differences is an acquired taste.  

It's a taste we need to acquire in the type community.  That's the mission of the World Type Alliance.