Speaking Different Languages, Striving for the Same
© Victor Gulenko, 1996
From V. Gulenko, V. Tyshchenko, Jung At School.
Translated by Dmitri Lytov
Edited by Jeffrey Bolden
For a long time development of
socionics was limited by a single country's borders, but in 1984 its founder, Ausra Augustinaviciute, learned about the MBTI test (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator)
19, and this was the beginning of communication between socionics and its “transatlantic cousin”.
Comparison between the American
type theory and
socionics became possible due to the publication in 1995-1996 of several books by American authors: D. Keirsey, M. Bates, O. Kroeger, J. Thuesen, P. Tieger, and B. Barron-Tieger
11-13,16. Although the primary source, the theory of
personality types developed by C.G. Jung
20, is the same for the both typologies, there is a serious difference between them in contents and language.
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Interpreting behavior of my INFp cousin- is it hard for INFps to open up this much?
I wouldn't worry about it, easier said than done i'm sure. I do not think this is solvable in a theoretical format here. Where an arrow will point to
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