Understanding the Enneagram: The Practical Guide to Personality Types

PERSONALITY TYPES, the first book by Don Richard Riso, has become the leading guide to the Enneagram, as well as a cherished classic in the literature of personal growth around the world. This is the groundbreaking book that set the standard for insight and accuracy about this ancient symbol of human personality. UNDERSTANDING THE ENNEAGRAM soon followed and has since become another indispensable reseource, teaching readers not only how to understand this psychological framework in daily life but how to use it in many different settings. Don Riso and Russ Hudson have now fully revised and updated this authoritative guide to the Enneagram, based on their continuing work in the field, which is attracting ever-increasing attention. Discover how to use the Enneagram to find fulfillment in your personal develpemnt and in all of your relationships.

This practical, simplified guide explains to readers how they can apply the enneagram in their daily lives.

on Richard Riso's first book, Personality Types, has become the leading guide to the Enneagram, setting the standard for insight and accuracy about this ancient symbol of human personality. And Understanding the Enneagram has become the indispensable companion volume, teaching readers how to use this psychological framework in daily life. Riso has now fully revised this most authoritative modern interpretation of the Enneagram, based on his pioneering and continuing work, which is attracting ever-increasing attention from laymen, psychologists, and religious teachers alike. Now more than ever, see how to use the Enneagram to transcend yourself and find fulfillment in your personal development and in your relationships.

Don Richard Riso, M.A. is the foremost writer and developer of the Enneagram in the world today. The most-published and best-selling author in the field, he is an internatioinally recognized authority on the subject. He is the president of Enneagram Personality Types, Inc., and founder of The Enneagram Institute. He has been teaching the Enneagram for more than twenty years, pioneering a revolutionary new approach to ego psychology through his 1977 discovery of the Levels of Development. His four best-selling books are available in British, German, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, and French editions. Mr. Riso was a Jesuit for thirteen years, holds degrees in English and philosophy, was elected to the Jesuit Honor Society, Alpha Sigma Nu, and was a Ford Foundation Fellow at Stanford University in communications (social psychology).