The Enneagram and the Interpersonal Psychiatry of Harry Stack Sullivan
by Jerome Wagner, Ph.D. While I am aware that looking for connections among ideas is a near pathological preoccupation for my type, I am nevertheless giving into the temptation to propose some...
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Karen Horney’s Three Trends (Moving Towards, Against, Away From) and the...
The vision of the International Enneagram Association (IEA) is to be the hub of a vibrant international Enneagram community. Part of its mission is to sponsor open and constructive interaction among...
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Enneagram Styles And Maladaptive Schemas: A Research Project
by Jerome Wagner, Ph.D. I find it useful to think of the Enneagram personality styles as nine different paradigms or sets of lenses for looking at the world. A paradigm is a way of organizing and...
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A 3-V View of The Enneagram: Values, Visions, and Vulnerabilities
by Jerome Wagner, Ph.D. When I was first introduced to the Enneagram, we got only the bad stuff — the distortions, fixations, compulsions, exaggerations, vices, bad breath, etc. When I, in turn,...
View ArticleValues and Proficiencies
Our values and visions give us an intuitive perceptual and behavioral edge. Each of the nine styles possesses an intuitive capacity to see certain realities very clearly and demonstrates a particular...
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At the heart of each person’s style lie certain strengths and capabilities that enable us to survive and thrive. We experience these energizers as values or ideals. While all of these strengths and...
View ArticleHistory of the Enneagram
A recently popularized typology which is moving into the mainstream in personal growth, therapy, spirituality, education and business arenas is the ENNEAGRAM (Any-a-gram). In Greek Ennea means nine and...
View ArticleNarcissism and Enneagram Styles
There is some debate about which Enneagram styles display narcissistic tendencies. Some put Sevens in the narcissistic category; some put Threes in that basket; some say any Enneagram type can...
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A Comparison of the Nine Enneagram Personality Styles and Theodore Millons’...
There are several congenial correlations between the nine styles of the Enneagram and the eight personality patterns proposed by Theodore Millon, Ph.D. (1969) who is an influential personality...
View ArticleEnneagram Styles And The Cognitive Theory Of George Kelly
George Kelly (1963) has been called the father of cognitive psychotherapy along with Aaron Beck, Albert Ellis, maybe the Greek philosopher Epictetus, who in the first century AD said it is not the...
View ArticleEnneagram Styles And Cyclical Psychodynamics
I’ve been thinking lately about the Enneagram styles and their spots – sweet spots, blind spots, hot spots, and desired spots. The sweet spot is like the sweet spot on a bat — that place on the bat...
View ArticleIntegrating Our Polarities using the 4 R’s: Recognize, Re-frame, Re-own,...
by Jerome Wagner, Ph.D. When we over-identify or over-idealize certain aspects of our personality, we tend to disavow any opposite attributes. For example if you think of yourself as right and exact,...
View ArticleAn Enneagram Overview
Table Of ContentsTYPESNATURE OR NURTUREMOTIVATIONValuesVisionsREAL SELF / FALSE SELFBLIND SPOT / AVOIDED SELF / DESPISED SELFDEFENSES AND VULNERABILITIESIDOLS AND IRONY Here are some thoughts on...
View ArticleFrom Idolatry to Reality: From Worshiping the Idealizations of Our...
by Jerry Wagner, Ph.D. Table Of ContentsOnes Want to be GoodTwos Want to be LovingThrees Want to be Effective and ProductiveFours Want to be Original, Authentic, and CreativeFives Want to...
View ArticleEnneagram Styles And The Cognitive Theory Of George Kelly
by Jerome Wagner, Ph.D. George Kelly (1963) has been called the father of cognitive psychotherapy along with Aaron Beck, Albert Ellis, maybe the Greek philosopher Epictetus, who in the first century AD...
View ArticleEnneagram Styles and Cyclical Psychodynamics: Irony of Ironies
by Jerome Wagner, Ph.D. It’s always nice to discover that some of your ideas are not totally out in left field, not that there’s anything wrong with being in left field. I was recently reading a...
View ArticleIntegrating Our Polarities using the 4 R’s: Recognize, Re-frame, Re-own,...
by Jerome Wagner, Ph.D. When we over-identify or over-idealize certain aspects of our personality, we tend to disavow any opposite attributes. For example if you think of yourself as right and exact,...
View ArticleAn Enneagram Overview
Table Of ContentsTYPESNATURE OR NURTUREMOTIVATIONValuesVisionsREAL SELF / FALSE SELFBLIND SPOT / AVOIDED SELF / DESPISED SELFDEFENSES AND VULNERABILITIESIDOLS AND IRONY Here are some thoughts on...
View ArticleFrom Idolatry to Reality: From Worshiping the Idealizations of Our...
by Jerry Wagner, Ph.D. Table Of ContentsOnes Want to be GoodTwos Want to be LovingThrees Want to be Effective and ProductiveFours Want to be Original, Authentic, and CreativeFives Want to...
View ArticleThe Real Self and The False Self – Psychological And Spiritual Perspectives
by Jerry Wagner, Ph.D. Table Of ContentsPSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVESD.W. WINNICOTTKAREN HORNEYCARL ROGERSABRAHAM MASLOWCARL JUNGFRITZ PERLSHEINZ KOHUTTHE EXISTENTIALISTSSPIRITUAL PERSPECTIVESSANDRA...
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