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The Enneagram, the Myers-Briggs, and the Brain
This groundbreaking book is the first to explore the connection between the Enneagram and Myers-Briggs systems within a neuroscientific framework. Authored by medical doctor Saleh Vallander, the book shows how Enneagram Types and Instincts align with emotional patterns in the midbrain and limbic system, while Myers-Briggs Types correspond to cognitive patterns in the neocortex. This book is a must-read for anyone seeking a profound understanding of the Enneagram and Myers-Briggs systems, and how they can be integrated to provide a more comprehensive view of personality.
The book “The Neurobiology of the Enneagram” is incorporated in its entirety as the first section of this book.
The book “The Neurobiology of the Enneagram” is incorporated in its entirety as the first section of this book.
263 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 26, 2023
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March 14, 2023Myers Briggs or Enneagram? Which is better when it comes to personality typing? This perennial question appears on social platforms and in discussion groups.
Personality analysis systems provide effective ways of understanding ourselves and one another, but which system is most comprehensive, reliable and useful? Human nature often draws us to prefer the first one we became familiar with, but are we open to learning more? Saleh Vallander provides a readable and plausible solution to this dilemma.
Beginning with a simple and clear introduction to each of the two systems, Vallander establishes the overall direction and individual characteristics and the variations of each. Already familiar with both these systems from my amateur viewpoint, I found this overview further clarified some aspects in my mind.
He goes on to establish a description of the neurobiology of each system. Brain function, then the sources of emotions, instincts and cognitive process (from deeper brain regions and the more cerebral outer cortex area), are well explained and related to how they play out in each system. Being best approached scientifically, and with application for each type in each system, this explanation reads more like a thesis, with hypotheses and possibilities presented in repeated paragraph structure and wording, so the book as a whole reads more as an academic document than a friendly, anecdotal coverage of the variations of human nature.
The conclusions drawn provide a logical and cordial answer to the question - being not ‘either/or’ but ‘both/and’. Demonstrating from a well-documented, long list of references that the sources within the brain of the emotional aspect of personality expressed in the Enneagram and the cognitive aspect of the Myers-Briggs system are not only complementary to each other, but allow for variations within types in each system, the author clears the confusion of seeming inconsistencies in one or the other system. Also noted is the possibility of mistyping in using the systems separately.
This book has clarified for me what I have known deep down – there is not only great value in each of the two systems, but they serve different purposes in our understanding of emotional and cognitive patterns in personality, working together to form a comprehensive personality picture. It’s not a quick, easy read (at least for this bear of little brain), but nor is it complicated, and it is worth taking the time to work through for its practical and constructive conclusion.
Personality analysis systems provide effective ways of understanding ourselves and one another, but which system is most comprehensive, reliable and useful? Human nature often draws us to prefer the first one we became familiar with, but are we open to learning more? Saleh Vallander provides a readable and plausible solution to this dilemma.
Beginning with a simple and clear introduction to each of the two systems, Vallander establishes the overall direction and individual characteristics and the variations of each. Already familiar with both these systems from my amateur viewpoint, I found this overview further clarified some aspects in my mind.
He goes on to establish a description of the neurobiology of each system. Brain function, then the sources of emotions, instincts and cognitive process (from deeper brain regions and the more cerebral outer cortex area), are well explained and related to how they play out in each system. Being best approached scientifically, and with application for each type in each system, this explanation reads more like a thesis, with hypotheses and possibilities presented in repeated paragraph structure and wording, so the book as a whole reads more as an academic document than a friendly, anecdotal coverage of the variations of human nature.
The conclusions drawn provide a logical and cordial answer to the question - being not ‘either/or’ but ‘both/and’. Demonstrating from a well-documented, long list of references that the sources within the brain of the emotional aspect of personality expressed in the Enneagram and the cognitive aspect of the Myers-Briggs system are not only complementary to each other, but allow for variations within types in each system, the author clears the confusion of seeming inconsistencies in one or the other system. Also noted is the possibility of mistyping in using the systems separately.
This book has clarified for me what I have known deep down – there is not only great value in each of the two systems, but they serve different purposes in our understanding of emotional and cognitive patterns in personality, working together to form a comprehensive personality picture. It’s not a quick, easy read (at least for this bear of little brain), but nor is it complicated, and it is worth taking the time to work through for its practical and constructive conclusion.
November 22, 2024
That was a very good read👌🏼
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