Enneagram - Historical development

The Enneagram (or Enneagon) is a nine-pointed diametric figure which is used to indicate the dynamic ways that aspects of things and processes are connected and change. These days the Enneagram figure's most well-known use is in indicating a dynamic model of nine distinct yet interconnected psychological types (usually called 'personality types' or 'character types'). These types can be understood as unconsciously de ...

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• Enneagram - The diametric figure
• Enneagram - Historical development
• Enneagram - The nine types
• Enneagram - Wings
• Enneagram - Stress & security points
• Enneagram - Instinctual subtypes
• Enneagram - Ego-fixations & deadly sins
• Enneagram - Research issues
• Enneagram - Criticism

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It is sometimes speculated that forms of the Enneagram typology can be found in ancient sources, especially within the Sufi spiritual tradition, or that the Enneagram figure is possibly a variant of the Chaldean Seal from the times of Pythagoras. Although there may be some truth to this, there does not appear to be any hard evidence to support such speculations. It seems that the Enneagram figure's first definitely established use (at least in its most common form of the triangle and hexagon) is found in the writings of the Greek-Arme ...

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Enneagram, Enneagram - The diametric figure, Enneagram - Historical development, Enneagram - The nine types, Enneagram - Wings, Enneagram - Stress & security points, Enneagram - Instinctual subtypes, Enneagram - Ego-fixations & deadly sins, Enneagram - Research issues, Enneagram - Criticism

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The nine Enneagram types are often given names that indicate some distinctive behavioral aspect, though these labels are insufficient to capture the nuances of the type concerned. Some examples are as follows. (For convenience, the corresponding deadly sin is indicated in square brackets: see below). One: Reformer, Critic, Perfectionist [Anger]. This type focuses on integrity. Ones can be wise, discerning and inspiring in their quest for the truth. They also tend to dissociate themselves from t ...

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Enneagram, Enneagram - The diametric figure, Enneagram - Historical development, Enneagram - The nine types, Enneagram - Wings, Enneagram - Stress & security points, Enneagram - Instinctual subtypes, Enneagram - Ego-fixations & deadly sins, Enneagram - Research issues, Enneagram - Criticism

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Many psychologists and scientists regard the Enneagram as a pseudoscience that uses an essentially arbitrary set of personality dimensions to make its characterisations. Lacking falsifiability, the claims of Enneagram theorists cannot be verified using the conventional emperical scientific method. In this respect it is not considered to be any different from many other typological models such as that of Carl Gustav Jung's on which th ...

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Enneagram, Enneagram - The diametric figure, Enneagram - Historical development, Enneagram - The nine types, Enneagram - Wings, Enneagram - Stress & security points, Enneagram - Instinctual subtypes, Enneagram - Ego-fixations & deadly sins, Enneagram - Research issues, Enneagram - Criticism

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Because of differences among teachers in their understanding of the personality characteristics of the nine types and more theoretical aspects of Enneagram dynamics, some skeptics argue that more research needs to be done to test the Enneagram as an empirically valid typology. Whilst some believe that the research already done has not given support to the Enneagram's validity (especially concepts of the Wings or the Stress and Security Points) others believe that by its somewhat complex and 'spiritual' nature the Enneagram typology is too difficu ...

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Enneagram, Enneagram - The diametric figure, Enneagram - Historical development, Enneagram - The nine types, Enneagram - Wings, Enneagram - Stress & security points, Enneagram - Instinctual subtypes, Enneagram - Ego-fixations & deadly sins, Enneagram - Research issues, Enneagram - Criticism

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To some extent the personality issues and traits of the nine Enneagram types can be understood as 'overlapping' around the circle. Observation suggests, for example, that Type One people will also tend to manifest some of the characteristics of either or both Type Nine and Type Two. The two types on each sides of a person's principal type are usually called the 'Wings'. This aspect of Enneagram theory was first suggested by Claudio Naranjo and then further developed by Jesuit teachers. Some Enneagram theorists do not give much or ...

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Enneagram, Enneagram - The diametric figure, Enneagram - Historical development, Enneagram - The nine types, Enneagram - Wings, Enneagram - Stress & security points, Enneagram - Instinctual subtypes, Enneagram - Ego-fixations & deadly sins, Enneagram - Research issues, Enneagram - Criticism

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The internal lines of the triangle and hexagon indicate what are called 'Stress Points' and 'Security Points'. In Don Riso's teachings the lines also indicate what he calls the 'directions of integration' to healthier psychological states and the 'directions of disintegration' to unhealthy psychological states. The sequence of stress points is 1-4-2-8-5-7-1 for the hexagon and 9-6-3-9 for the triangle, whereas the security points sequence is in the opposite direction (1-7-5-8-2-4-1 and 9-3-6-9). These sequences are found in the ...

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Enneagram, Enneagram - The diametric figure, Enneagram - Historical development, Enneagram - The nine types, Enneagram - Wings, Enneagram - Stress & security points, Enneagram - Instinctual subtypes, Enneagram - Ego-fixations & deadly sins, Enneagram - Research issues, Enneagram - Criticism

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The Enneagram types have also been correlated with the traditional Seven Deadly Sins plus two additional descriptors - 'deceit' and 'fear'. The '7 sins + 2' need to be understood in a much more specific meaning than usual. One – Anger Anger as a frustration in working hard to do things right, while the rest of the world doesn't care about doings things right and doesn't appreciate the sacrifice and effort made. Two – Pride Pride as a self-inflation of ego, in the sense of seeing themselves as indispensable to others - they have no needs y ...

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Enneagram, Enneagram - The diametric figure, Enneagram - Historical development, Enneagram - The nine types, Enneagram - Wings, Enneagram - Stress & security points, Enneagram - Instinctual subtypes, Enneagram - Ego-fixations & deadly sins, Enneagram - Research issues, Enneagram - Criticism

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