A new way to consider patterns of personality, with the combined application of neurobiology and traditional wisdom
Personality and Wholeness in Psychotherapy applies the perspective of interpersonal neurobiology to a traditional wisdom framework widely known as the Enneagram of Personality. This framework describes a lifespan developmental personality model of nine distinct, key strategies that people use to make sense of and cope with their experiences and interactions with the world. These strategies can be understood as nine patterns of developmental pathways, or PDPs.
This book provides mental health practitioners with both a theoretical understanding of PDPs and practical tools for implementing the framework in clinical settings. Listeners will find detailed descriptions of the nine core patterns of personality as well as integrative practices specific to each of these patterns that can help people work towards states of well-being and wholeness.
This innovative book has the potential to unlock deep and lasting change in problematic and perplexing patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving, transforming personality from a prison to a playground for listeners and clients alike.
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“The most fascinating and helpful framework for understanding personality that I’ve encountered! Professionals and lay people alike will find a fresh perspective on how humans develop, and the compassion that allows us to relate to ourselves and others in a truly healing way."
— Tara Brach, author of Radical Compassion
“Daniel Siegel and his colleagues have created a brand-new dimension of theoretical and clinical understanding by combining science and the enneagram. There is much to learn here.”
— Jack Kornfield, PhD, author of A Path with HeartBe the first to write a review about this audiobook!
Daniel J. Siegel, MD, is an internationally acclaimed author, award-winning educator, and child psychiatrist. He is clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California-Los Angeles School of Medicine and executive director of the Mindsight Institute in Los Angeles. He is founding editor of the Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology.
Charles Constant is an actor whose professional storytelling career began at the age of thirteen, when he became an Actors’ Equity Association apprentice. An accomplished audiobook narrator, he has recorded many popular titles, including How to Win at the Sport of Business by Mark Cuban.