Enneagram Spectrum of Personality Styles: An Introductory Guide

This is the best introductory book you will find on the enneagram.  Wagner's guide is a clear and concise introduction to the Enneagram, useful for personal exploration and as a teaching aid for workshop presenters and counselors.  This comprehensive book with charts, exercises, and bullet descriptions, yields an experiential understanding of basic Enneagram principles such as authentic values and their personality substitutes, resourceful and non-resourceful cognitive, emotional, and behavioral schemas and how they shift under stressful and flow condtions, developmental influences, and the three centers of sorting and deciding.  Learn about the defense mechanisms, principles and paradigms, virtues, passions, and both healthy and maladaptive instincts of each of the nine Enneagram personality types. 

For centuries -- and now in the light of leading edge psychology -- the Enneagram has helped people to recognize their predispositions, motives, and talents.  Its insights provide valuable information for those in communication, business, human resources, therapy, and personal growth.  This book helps you to explore the nine different "hues" of the Enneagram, discover your own type, and understand the behaviors and attitudes that are uniquely yours.  It is considered the most concise and easy to use introductory guide available.

Dr. Wagner is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist in private practice at the Counseling Center of Loyola University, Chicago.  One of the original students of the Enneagram in the early 70's, he has taught graduate courses in the Enneagram for over fifteen years at Loyola's Institute for Pastoral Studies, where he now offers an Enneagram Training and Certification Program.  A witty lecturer and poplular speaker, he gives Enneagram workshops in various clinical, academic, business, personal and spiritual growth venues.  His doctoral dissertation was one of the first to do formal research with the Enneagram and he has been conducting and directing Enneagram research projects ever since.

"It's a really good guide and I'm delighted to recommend it to both new and longterm students who will benefit from [Wagner's] way of bringing the types to life." -- Helen Palmer, A leading author of Enneagram books and tapes

"This book is a pleasure to recommend!  It offers a dynamic, common-sense version of the Enneagram that showcases Wagner's decades of experience with the system.  The exercises are simple yet profound.  The book's many readers will find surprising new ways to apply the Enneagram to daily life." -- Thomas Condon, A leading author of Enneagram books and tapes

ISBN: 
1-55552-070-7 
$13.95
 PB / 1.0 lb.