I have already covered the history of MBTI elsewhere on this site - the purpose of this document is to explain the rationale of MBTI according to Isabel Myers Briggs who together with her mother Katherine Briggs was the originator of the MBTI. Isabel’s belief was that many problems could be dealt with [...]

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The Origins of MBTI
Katherine Cooke married Lyman Briggs in the period of World War 1. She had an interest in typology through studying biography and once she discovered Jung she accepted his system then explored and elaborated on it. Lyman Briggs was a scientist who had a major role in modern aviation and atomic energy. [...]

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Peoplemaps is based on the psychology of Dr C.G. Jung - the Swiss psychologist who assesses that people could be identified by their ‘attitude’ to the outside world, which would either be extravert or introvert - and more often than not, somewhere in the middle of these two attitudes.
The ‘attitudes’ that are measured eg, intraversion [...]

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