Jung's Indispensable Compass: Navigating the Dynamics of Psychological Types - Paperback

by James Graham Johnston (Author)

Jung's psychological types could be thought of as a compass useful for navigating personal growth to greater "wholeness." This detailed and intensive review of Jung's original model of psychological types discerns important new insights about the eight types, their structure and dynamics. Illustrated with biographies of well-known people, this book brings the eight types to life, while it analyses and explains their collaborative and oppositional dynamics in the process of unique personality development that Jung termed, individuation.

Author Biography

James Graham Johnston is author of Jung's Indispensable Compass, Joshua the Light of the World, The Call Within, and Thriving on Collaborative Genius. Jung's Indispensable Compass presents the types in the context of depth psychology and emphasizes individuation and the integration of opposites; it presents a new interpretation of Jung's comments about dominant and auxiliary relationships. Johnston is also the architect of the Gifts Compass Inventory, (www.giftscompass.com) an online self-assessment that freely articulates nuanced dispositions for each of Jung's original eight psychological types. He has lectured and delivered workshops on Jung's psychological types to various groups, including the International School of Analytical Psychology, Zurich (ISAPZURICH), The Ohio Valley Association of Jungian Analysts (OVAJA), and the Netherlands Association for Analytical Psychology (NAAP). James has formal educational training in the liberal arts, fine arts, architecture and business, having studied at Michigan, MIT, Harvard, Loyola, Columbia, Temple, and DePauw Universities. He holds a Master of Architecture Degree from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Arts Degree from DePauw University.