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1921 book by Carl Gustav Jung
Psychological Types is a book by Carl Jung that was originally published in German by Rascher Verlag in 1921, and translated into English in 1923, becoming volume 6 of The Collected Works of C. G. Jung. It is the baseline of many personality typology systems, particularly Myers Briggs. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Psychological TypesA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Types of parental psychological control and rural and urban Chinese adolescents’ psychological well-being and academic functioningInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: L’étrangerThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Different Types of “Dissociation” Have Different Psychological MechanismsCited 176 times
- Go sideways: Personality typeA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Jungian Type IndexA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
No dictionary entry for this exact phrase.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Different Types of “Dissociation” Have Different Psychological Mechanisms
Self-Help Groups: Types and Psychological Processes
Eyewitness Performance in Different Psychological Types
Psychological Types of Academically Gifted Adolescents
Jung's Psychological Types
Jung's Psychological Types, their Frequency of Occurrence
Social Correlates of Psychological Types of Delinquency
Psychological Types of Male Evangelical Church Leaders
🆕 Influential since 2022
Types of parental psychological control and rural and urban Chinese adolescents’ psychological well-being and academic functioning
The Psychological Benefits of Scary Play in Three Types of Horror Fans
The Influence of Different Types of Stress on Psychological Age
The Effects of Different Types of Classism on Psychological Outcomes: Preliminary Findings
Subject Types of Forensic Psychological Examination Assigned in Connection with Phone Fraud
📚 Books worth reading
L’étrangerAlbert Camus · 1942
Pet SemataryStephen King · 1983
The Power of Positive ThinkingNorman Vincent Peale · 1952
The Haunting of Hill HouseShirley Jackson · 1959
Flowers in the AtticV.C. Andrews · 1979
The Silence of the LambsThomas Harris · 1988
Shutter IslandDennis Lehane · 2003
The Monk Who Sold His FerrariRobin S. Sharma · 1996
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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