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MBTI Types – Shumate Depth Psychology
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MBTI Types

MBTI Types

You Are Not Alone

Your tribe may be rare, but you are not alone.

MBTI TypesDiscover your type tribe and remember who you wanted to be in childhood. This is who you were meant to be. Your vocation, your contribution to the world, your greatest pleasures and secrets can all be discovered in the seeds of your typology. This is your starting point in the journey of life.

Jung’s typology, best-known by the tool used to assess it, the MBTI®, is often criticized for “putting people in boxes,” but Jung actually created his system to help people climb out of the boxes that they create for themselves—the mental habits that psychological preferences predispose them to. Knowledge of your type helps you:

A boxed-in person

Think outside the box

See outside the box

Live outside the box

Be the person you were meant to be

Psychological type operates like a software program running in the background of one’s personality, dictating its default reactions. How does your box support you? How does it limit you? To climb out of the box of personality, you must first identify it. Then your personality can become the bridge to your larger self.

What Is Your Type?

Have you taken multiple assessments that report different types for you? Jung said that everyone needs assistance identifying their type. Contact me here for assistance determining and understanding your true type.

The Sixteen MBTI® Personality Types

MBTI® Type diagram

Multiple assessments, only one true type

Learn how this impacts your life, with the aid of the most advanced type model, Beebe’s eight-function model.

Testimonials

“Discovering I am an introvert has been a monumental personal gift. I feel like I can finally plan for my self-care, like I’m seeing for the first time where the wound is. Claiming this introverted tendency feels like an acceptance of the child I once was and the adult I have become. … To be accurately assessed has given me the insight I needed to identify my preferred function and accept it as what I need to feel centered within myself.” – Annatova Neches (INFJ), March 2023

“Learning typology has changed how I engage with clients; I notice more patience and compassion for specific personality characteristics that used to trigger me, and although there is still a reaction, it is less intense. There is a noticeable space for reflection. … I am grateful for the opportunity to learn from Carol and John Beebe’s model.” – Melissa Corter (INFP), March 2023

“Assessments prior to this identified me as an INFJ rather than ISTP. It was something of a synchronicity that the example in the book describes that “A person with nearly equal preferences for introverted intuition (Ni) and introverted thinking could have either INFJ preferences or ISTP preferences where introverted intuition is tertiary” (Shumate, p. 99). [Now] I feel more liberated in expressing my auxiliary Se. Realizing that typology is based on these inherent preferences has had a deep impact on my personal life and self-understanding.” – Zoe Marzo (ISTP) 3-21-23

“Prior to this, I had taken the MBTI types assessment in the workplace and tested as both an INTP and an INFP. I very much appreciate Professor Shumate’s in-depth, personal 1:1 introduction, which evaluated my childhood experiences, even recognizing my shadow functions in her initial descriptions, confirmed my INFP preference. The understanding of my shadow functions helped me enormously this summer during my recovery from cancer treatment, in reflection on my past experiences in the workplace.” – Cat Obregon (INFP) 2022

“Assessments prior to this course identified me as an INFJ rather than ISTP. … [Now] I can see how the Ne trickster often intruded upon my dreamlife in an effort to reconcile the Ni puer inflation, and with this understanding, I feel more liberated in expressing my auxiliary Se. Shumate reiterates that “Identifying which of these modes of consciousness is most comfortable can enable us to identify the exact locus of our fixed ideas so as to be able to move out of them and experience more fluidity, the better to ride that river of the Way.” (2021, p. 57), and that has been my experience. These considerations, Beebe’s system, and realizing that typology is based on these inherent preferences has had a deep impact on my personal life and self-understanding.” – Zoe Marzo (ISTP), 3-21-2023

“The acceptance of oneself is the essence of the whole moral problem…
I myself am the enemy who must be loved.”

CG Jung, CW 16

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