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Dr. David West Keirsey is an internationally renowned psychologist, a professor at California State University, Fullerton, and the author of several books. In his most popular publications ''Please Understand Me'' (co-authored by Marilyn Bates), and the revised and expanded second volume ''Please Understand Me II'' he lays out a system of personality classification known as the Keirsey Temperament Sorter, which links human behavior to 16 archetypes. Both volumes of ''Please Understand Me'' contain a questionnaire for type evaluation and detailed descriptions of temperament traits and personality characteristics. Dr. Keirsey specializes in family and partnership counseling, coaching minors and adults with a focus on conflict management and cooperation. Education and professional experience - Keirsey earned his B.A. from Pomona College, and his M.A., and Ph.D. from Claremont College Claremont College Graduate School. He started his career dealing with youthful mischief in 1950 as a counselor at a reform school for delinquent boys. Since then he spent nearly 20 years working in public schools as a "corrective interventionist", followed by 11 years at California State University, Fullerton where he trained therapists and pathologistpathologists in treating dysfunctional behavior in children and adults.
Development of Keirsey's temperaments - Keirsey's work is rooted in the western tradition of archetype theory reaching back to Hippocrates. Among his modern influences he counts the works of Ernst Kretschmer, Isabel Myers, Jay Haley, Gregory Bateson, Eduard Spranger, Erich Fromm, Alfred Adler, Carl Rogers and Milton Erickson.Isabel Myers and her mother Katharine Briggs were the first to systematize and define the 16 personality types now used by Keirsey and many other theoreticians and clinical practitioners. Although Keirsey's work largely derives from the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) in respect to sorting temperament types, he offers conceptually different descriptions, based on his psychological studies. The MBTI on one hand tends toward insights regarding evident thoughts and feelings, which might establish a connection to introspection in early 20th century psychology. Keirsey, on the other hand, attempts to address strictly observable behavior patterns, thus placing his concept more within the historical line of behaviorism (without being necessarily behaviorist in itself). A motivation for this difference on a purely personal level might be drawn from the fact, that Keirsey cites Myers as having an 'idealist' INFP personality type (introverted, intuitive, feeling, and perceiving), and describes himself as a 'rational' INTP type, with thinking rather than feeling traits.While Keirsey's main strength may be his insightful accuracy regarding temperament types, perhaps his most important theoretical contribution was his variation on the Myers' system for grouping archetypes. To determine archetype he paired intuition with thinking and feeling functions, as *NT* and *NF*, rather than linking *N*J and *N*P, as in the MBTI. Keirsey is also notable for discovering a correlation between certain temperament traits and vulnerability to sometimes subjectively diagnosed mental disorders. According to Keirsey e.g. virtually all anorexics possess 'idealist' *NF* traits. He believes also that boys with intuitive and perceiving (*N*P) traits would all too frequently be mis-diagnosed as having the attention deficite disorder ADHDAD(H)D.
AD(H)D controversy - This stance regarding ADHDAD(H)D has lead Keirsey to count himself among the comparatively small fraction of psychotherapists who believe that treatment of ADHDAD(H)D-diagnosed children with psychotropic drugs (mostly methylphenidate) was virtually always unnecessary and might often yield even iatrogenic effects. Consequently he acts as an ardent critic against what he perceives to be an "epidemic abuse of our children", and claims to be successful in the treatment of upmentioned children using pure psychotherapeutical methods. This position is highly disputable and clearly contradicts the point of view of the vast majority of scientists and professionals in the field, which is supported by numerous clinical studies.
See also - Myers-Briggs Type IndicatorAnti-psychiatry!ADHD#ADD.2FADHD_a_hoax.3FADHD – a hoax?
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Websites
Keirsey Temperament and Character Web Site
The Official Keirsey site. Take the Keirsey Temperament Sorter test online. Lots of articles, including several articles on Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and its relationship to Temperament.
http://www.keirsey.com/
AdvisorTeam.com
Provides personality profiling to celebrate the vital differences between personalities. Emphasis on personality issues in career, finance, relationship, education, and movie-preference. Has exclusive rights to the Keirsey Temperament Sorter.
http://www.advisorteam.com/
ibiblio
A collaboration of the Center for the Public Domain and The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill to provide public domain material, organised by subject and UDC (Universal Decimal Classification) including journals, ebooks and a special collection of linux programs and documentation.
http://www.ibiblio.org
Nilknarf News
The daily journal of an atheist radiographer working the graveyard shift at a catholic hospital and other writings and poetry.
http://nilknarf.net
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