Hidden Treasure - Personality Type

Personality Type: An Owner's Manual by Lenore Thomson If you've ever taken the Myers-Briggs Type Inventory (MBTI) and gotten your result (INFJ? ESTP?), you probably read the description of your type and moved on. Few know that the MBTI is actually based on ideas of personality typology developed by C. G. Jung. This book fleshes out Jung's ideas about typology as they apply to you. It shows you how to recognize and access your strengths, to overcome your weaknesses, and to interact more meaningfully with everyone in your life. And Lenore Thompson makes it so fun-finding types among the characters of comic strips, soap operas, and Star Trek.

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Hidden Treasure - Ego and Archetype

Ego and Archetype: Individuation and the Religious Function of the Psyche by Edward F. Edinger If you've heard C. G. Jung's ideas are good for you, but you're put off by the sheer volume of his work, try looking at him through this marvelous lens provided by the late Dr. Edward Edinger. He takes Jung's ubiquitous concept of individuation and shows how it works in the individual and society. Edinger believed that the encounter with the self is modern equivalent of what might have in the past been called the discovery of God. This is one of those books that was head-rearranging for people of a certain generation (it first came out in the 1970s)-and it's lost none of its power to do that.

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Hidden Treasure - The Heroine's Journey

The Heroine's Journey: Woman's Quest for Wholeness by Maureen Murdock This was a best-seller for us in the late 1980s. Maureen recognized that the "Hero's Journey" that Joseph Campbell had written about so memorably missed important aspects of the process for women. The fan mail poured in for this book that spoke so profoundly to women's inner truth. Its wisdom still applies-give it a try.

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Hidden Treasure - Individuation in Fairy Tales

Individuation in Fairy Tales by Marie-Louise von Franz Here's another one from the days when we published extensively in Jungian psychology-and it's arguably one of the best. Von Franz was likely Jung's closest student, and her insights into how fairy tales can tell us who we are can be world-view transforming.

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