The question of psychological types : the correspondence of C.G. Jung and Hans Schmid-Guisan, 1915-1916 / edited by John Beebe and Ernst Falzeder ; translated by Ernst Falzeder with the collaboration of Tony Woolfson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction / John Beebe and Ernst Falzeder -- Translator's note -- Correspondence -- J (4 june 1915) -- S (24 june 1915) -- J (undated) -- S (6 july 1915) -- J (undated) -- S (29 August 1915) -- J (4 September 1915) -- S (28 September 1915) -- J (6 November 1915) -- S (1-7 December 1915) -- S (11-14 December 1915) -- S (17-18 December 1915) -- S (6 January 1916) -- Appendix -- Summary of Jung's first three letters -- Jung's obituary of Hans Schmid-Guisan -- Bibliography -- Index.

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In 1915, C.G. Jung and his psychiatrist colleague, Hans Schmid-Guisan, began a correspondence through which they hoped to understand and codify fundamental individual differences of attention and consciousness. Their ambitious dialogue, focused on the opposition of extraversion and introversion, demonstrated the difficulty of reaching a shared awareness of differences even as it introduced concepts that would eventually enable Jung to create his landmark 1921 statement of the theory of psychological types. That theory, the basis of the widely used Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and other simi.

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