Enneagram Movie and Video Guide: How to See Personality styles in the Movies (Revised Second Edition) 

By Thomas Condon

Whether you are a movie lover, aspiring actor, storyteller, student of psychology or Enneagram enthusiast, this spirited original book will alter the way you see movies forever. From classics to independent films to mega-hits like Titanic, personality types are everywhere in the movies — if you know how to see them. 

The Enneagram is a fascinating and popular system that describes nine personality types that human beings most favor. It is used in communication, self knowledge, story construction, actors. Knowledge of the Enneagram is helpful in dozens of ways, from understanding relationships to improving communication to handling difficult people. Newcomers to the Enneagram are often amazed to find clear accurate portraits of themselves and everyone else that they know. The Enneagram is about people —  how we are the same, how we are different, what makes us tick. 

Written in a lively entertaining style, The Enneagram Movie & Video Guide "cracks the code"/with help you learn the Enneagram quickly and apply it towards the personal and professional goals most important to you. This book is an indispensable source for movie buffs, students of human behavior and the Enneagram  alike.This 2nd edition is updated and enlarged, including a new Master Index as well as advanced Enneagram distinctions like wings and subtypes. 

“The Enneagram Movie & Video Guide is an easy read and functions as an admission ticket to a realm in which we can gain a deeper understanding of movie characters and personality types. Considered to be one of the oldest forms of psychological assessment, the Enneagram has remained elusive to many, but, thanks to Thomas Condon, here is a format (finally) that anyone can understand.

The actors and movies are clearly indexed so readers can easily find their favorite actors and delve deeply into the movie characters’ psyches. There is no stuffy psychobabble, just clear descriptions about using our most celebrated medium - film - as a tool of psychological discovery. This is a must-read for people who already know the Enneagram - it will help them to deepen their insights - and it is a great introduction for the newcomer."
-  New Age Retailer 

Thomas Condon has worked with the Enneagram since 1979.  He has taught at Antioch University, and the University of California, Berkeley, as well as in hundreds of workshops in the U.S. and Europe.  He is the author of 35 audiotapes and two books. 

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What People Say About This Book

"A mine of real gold! What is beguiling about Condon’s work, besides an uncommonly fine literary style, is the clarity with which he points out Enneagram styles that most students have trouble seeing.” 
                              - The National Catholic Reporter 

“Condon breaks new ground! If you watch the movies, or even just read these reviews, your Enneagram assessing skills will increase dramatically.” 
                              - The Enneagram Educator 

“A real find! Condon’s movie guide provides not only a snappy introduction to the Enneagram’s personality types, butwrite-ups of about 1000 movies focusing on the main characters and their behaviors. A series of movies exhibiting one type will give the reader a great sense of both the basic issues and their variations for that type. Condon provides capsule reviews plus good viewing and study suggestions.”
                              - Inner Journeys Book Review 

“In becoming a psychotherapist it was always clear that reading great novels taught me more than any psychology course. Thomas Condon has taken film-the art form of our time-to show the mind heart and bodily experience of each Enneagram style. Truly a great book!”
                              - Margaret Frings Keyes 
                                Author, Emotions & The Enneagram 

“Condon utilizes movie characters to disclose the inner workings and psychodynamics of each style. This book is fun, well written and a great source of Enneagram instruction. The use of film is a powerful method for capturing the nuances and essence of every personality style.” 
                                     - Enneagram Monthly 

“Not since Helen Palmer broke the ice with her classic work The Enneagram has learning this fascinating system of personality types been so easy. Considered to be one of the oldest forms of psychological assessment, the Enneagram has remained elusive to many, but, thanks to Thomas Condon, here is a format (finally) that anyone can understand.  This book emphasizes the illustration of the nine Enneagram types through observation by providing the personality types for almost one thousand movie characters. The Guide is an easy read and functions as an admission ticket to a realm in which we can gain a deeper understanding of movie characters and personality types.

This is a must-read for people who already know the Enneagram - it will help them to deepen their insights - and it is a great introduction for the newcomer. The actors and movies are clearly indexed so readers can easily find their favorite actors and delve deeply into the movie characters’ psyches. There is no stuffy psychobabble, just clear descriptions about using our most celebrated medium - film - as a tool of psychological discovery. 
Bookstores: Get The Enneagram Movie and Video Guide and display it in your store. It will be a steady seller for a long time.”
                             - Mark Husson, Twelfth House Bookstore 
                             - New Age Retailer 

“Have you ever watched a movie and wondered, “Why did that character do that?” If you have, read The Enneagram Movie and Video Guide by Thomas Condon, the one and only book to review the movies and their characters in terms of the Enneagram, a popular psychological system of personality types.   With The Enneagram Movie and Video Guide you won’t have to analyze your friends. Instead, you’ll have thousands of characters at your disposal - and you can watch them behave over and over just by pressing “rewind.” This is a wonderful book for learning and/or increasing your understanding of the Enneagram."
                                - Leading Edge Review 

For a look at Tom Condon's Two Volumne Set, go here.

ISBN: 
1-55552-100-2 
$14.95
 PB / 1.5 lb.