Character and Neurosis - An Integrative View

From the Book

"Typologies have been popular in psychology since the days of the Greek 'humors' and the Hindu 'gunas'. But Claudio Naranjo's treatment of the enneagram represents a significant contribution to this quest.

His book provides readers with a structure for their personal story that can facilitate individual growth and development. It can also be used by couples, families, and groups to explore both those traits that separate them and those that bring them together.

Dr. Naranjo has produced a major work that deserves to be studied, debated, and utilized by professionals and non-professionals alike."
Stanley Krippner PhD
Professor of Psychology, Saybrook Institute

"One need not be a follower of the enneagram structural model to appreciate the clinical sensitivity and depth of insight with Dr. Naranjo brings to this study of personality types. It portrays a taxonomic model that is both broad-ranging in scope and rich in detail, an extremely useful reference work for both clinicians and students alike."
Dr. Theodore Millon
Editor, Journal of Personality Disorders

"Naranjo presents sophisticated body-mind archetypes which take homeopathic constitutional types - along with traditional psychological character study - into the 21st Century."
Dana Ullman, M.P.H.
author of Discovering Homeopathy

"Claudio Naranjo is the colleague and friend who brought me to meet Oscar Ichazo and participate in the training at Arica, Chile, in 1970. With this in-depth, elaborated version of what Oscar Ichazo outlined at Arica, Claudio has re-created the enneagram of personality types for the practice of inner explorers in this culture, and I consider him to be the premier teacher of this particular scientific tool for the study of consciousness."
John C. Lilly, M.D.
author of Center of the Cyclone and The Deep Self

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Details

The history of the Enneagram is mysterious, although it becomes clearer if one distinguishes between the Enneagram symbol and the descriptions of the nine types, which are gaining worldwide attention.

The symbol (the circle with the inner triangle and hexagon) is ancient, dating back to Pythagoras or even earlier. The concept of the nine personality types has elements rooted in several traditional teachings such as the Seven Deadly Sins (beginning in the 4th century), and the Kabbalah (beginning in the 12th century) but the psychological descriptions of the types, on the other hand, are modern and are the work of modern authors.

George Gurdjieff brought the symbol to the West circa 1900, and Oscar Ichazo was the first to synthesize the symbol with elements of the teachings about the types. He was the first to identify the core qualities of each of the nine types. The psychiatrist Claudio Naranjo, who also introduced the panel method for gathering information about the types, expanded on his work.

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Author

Dr. Claudio Naranjo is the honorary president of two Gestalt Institutes, Fellow of the Institute of Cultural Research in London and a member of the U.S. Club of Rome.

He is considered one of the pioneers of the Human Potential Movement, and his introduction of "Fourth Way" ideas to psychotherapy is an instance of his work as an integrator at the interface between psychotherapy and he spiritual traditions.

At present he is primarily dedicated to an integrative and transpersonal education of psychotherapists in various European and South American countries.

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Contents

Preface by Frank Barron -- xv
Author's Foreword -- xxi

By way of Introduction: a theoretical panorama -- 1

1. Anger And Perfectionism (Type 1) -- 39
2. Avarice And Pathological Detachment (Type 5) -- 65
3. Envy And Depressive Masochistic Character (Type 4) -- 96
4. Sadistic Character And Lust (Type 8) -- 127
5. Gluttony, Fraudulence, And "Narcissistic Personality" (Type 7) -- 151
6. Pride And Histrionic Personality (Type 2) -- 174
7. Vanity, Inauthenticity, And The "Marketing Orientation" (Type 3) -- 199
8. Cowardice, Paranoid Character And Accusation (Type 6) -- 222
9. Psychospiritual Inertia And The Over-Adjusted Disposition Type (Type 9) -- 245

Suggestions For Further Work On Self -- 269
Appendix -- Remarks For Differential Diagnosis -- 282
Biographical Notes -- 290

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