Know Your Type

by Ralph Metzner

People are fascinated with analyzing their own characters and those of friends and enemies. Doing so often leads to greater self-awareness. Know Your Type explores the process of identity classification from a psychological perspective and examines many different personality types, including those that correlate to body the skinny-boned ectomorph, the soft and fleshy endomorph, and the muscular mesomorph. This spirited and informative guide, featuring tests and worksheets that allow readers to determine their own identity type, enables readers to better understand themselves and the world.

Genres: Psychology

144 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1979

About the author

Ralph Metzner Ph.D. was an American psychologist, writer and researcher, who participated in psychedelic research at Harvard University in the early 1960s with Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert (later named Ram Dass). Dr. Metzner was a psychotherapist, and Professor Emeritus of psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, where he was formerly the Academic Dean and Academic Vice-president. He received his undergraduate degree at Oxford University and his doctorate in clinical psychology at Harvard University, where he was also the recipient of an NIMH Post-doctoral Fellowship in psychopharmacology at the Harvard Medical School. He had a life-long interest in the many different realms of consciousness and its modifications.

He is the author of The Well of Remembrance, The Unfolding Self, Green Psychology, Birth of a Psychedelic Culture (with Ram Dass); editor of two collections of essays on ayahuasca and on psilocybe mushrooms; and author of a new series of seven books on The Ecology of Consciousness.

Reviews

[Nick Daponte]

Not concise but true.