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The Everything Enneagram Book : Identify Your Type, Gain Insight into Your Personality and Find Success in Life, Love, and Businessby Susan Reynolds2007 | EPUB + MOBI | 320 pages | ISBN: 1598692763 | English | 2.28 MBEach of us wears our personality like a disguise-but with the Enneagram, you can strip away that mask, and reveal your true self. A timeless tool used by corporate trainers, counselors, and mental health professionals, the Enneagram defines nine basic personality types. Which are you?Evangelical IdealistPeople PleaserKing of the HillCreative SeekerMasterful HermitLoyal GuardianOptimistic DreamerThe DominatorPeaceful LambIn The Everything Enneagram Book, you’ll learn what your type is, how it affects your perception of yourself and others, and how you can use that knowledge to best effect. Author Susan Reynolds’ Jungian approach helps you apply the secrets of the Enneagram to your relationships, your work, even your love life. With this engaging, enlightening guide, you’ll gain the self-awareness you need to transform every aspect of your life-and become the person you were born to be!About the AuthorVeteran journalist and author Susan Reynolds is a long-time proponent of the Enneagram. She graduated from Indiana University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Psychology and remains fascinated by personality theory, mythology, and archetypes. Ms. Reynolds is a Four (creative seeker) with a heavy Five (masterful hermit) wing. She lives in Pembroke, MA. Technical Reviewer Clarence Thomson, M.A. is the author of Parables and the Enneagram and coauthor of Out of the Box: Coaching with the Enneagram and Enneagram Applications. He has been teaching the Enneagram internationally for more than years, and was a featured speaker at three International Enneagram Conferences. Mr. Thomas has a master’s degree in theology and another in social communications, from the University of Ottawa and Universite de St. Paul. He lives in Louisburg, KS. Amazon Reviews:5.0 out of 5 stars Best Self-awareness tool Ive ever come acrossBy Buddy on February 8, 2011To begin I will say that I am a Social Psychology graduate with some graduate studies focusing on relationships and personalities. I have taken at least 30+ personality tests and they all seem the same. Then I took this. It is SCARY how accurate things become.Format: You take the 20-30 minute test in the beginning, make sure you do it right! Read a paragraph (very bland like the other tests). Read the page long version of your number (now its a little accurate). Then read the 15 page chapter on your number. This is where it gets weird.I have OVER 40 names of my friends (in my back cover to remember) who have taken this test, with number 6 Loyal Guardian being the least and 5 Masterful Hermit being the most. They all said it was 90%+ accurate. Most are between 20-28 and a few were parents but all agreed it fit them. Around 5 went on here and bought it because they were so creeped out.The best part is in every chapter where it tells how your background made you develop into your number (some event specific!).Bonus stuff in this that I couldn’t find in other versions were “What it’s like to love (insert your number)”, “What it’s like to have a (insert number) parent/child”The best $12 I have ever spent. PERIOD.4.0 out of 5 stars The best enneagram resource I have foundBy jodic on February 8, 2008I have over a dozen books on the enneagran, and this one offeres the best explanations, in an easy to absorb format.3.0 out of 5 stars Not Quite EverythingBy ritarose on January 11, 2016I enjoyed it for the most part. I like the format and thought that the author did a good job of explaining insider concepts and terminology in simple terms. Her description of the types was still balanced and explained well enough that the types didn’t sound like caricatures and that the reader wanted to learn more. She also didn’t show a bias toward or against any of the types. She fit a lot of good information in and used a quick, fun writing style. There was still room for improvement in some areas though. A little more editing would have gotten it another star. It lists famous people and fictional characters as examples of each type, but a couple of them are listed as more than one type with no explanation. Either removing the parts that seem to contradict each other or explaining the reason for the discrepancy would have been helpful. It also introduces concepts that would probably be foreign to a beginner with little or no explanation ( a heavy wing, how a person can benefit from their “disintegration point” or pick up negative traits from their “integration point) when a few extra sentences would clear things up. Overall, it is a good book, but there a few glitches that could make a reader either cross reference or lose interest.5.0 out of 5 stars Great Overview BookBy Kenneth Wick on May 4, 2014A great overview book of the Enneagram.The beginning of the book has a test to help you determine your type.The book then covers each Enneagram type–covering things like emotional origins; healthy (self-actualized), average (ego-driven), and unhealthy (pathological) descriptions of each type; how each type progresses and regresses; fears; motivations and fixations; coping mechanisms; wing subtype descriptions; each Type in a relationship; each type as a parent and child.I like how the book combines the Enneagram types with Jung’s Theory of Personality. It made a lot of sense and helped make the Enneagram information “stick.”Best of all it’s written from the average person–I’m just an average guy trying to see what makes me and others tick. I originally bought “Personality Types: Using the Enneagram For Self-Discovery” by Riso and Hudson. Another good book but was a bit dry / academic for me.When I need information on the Enneagram I reach for this book first, Riso’s and Hudson’s book second, and the Internet third.5.0 out of 5 stars Everything you wanted to know about the why’s in your lifeBy A. HAGGERTY on January 1, 2013A serious handbook for anyone who wants to understand “why” they did what they did and how the “self” is “revealed” to them within the characteristics of each of the personality types. I’ve ordered a “followup” book dealing with both psychological/spiritual dynamics within the concepts of the enneagram principles since my background is christianity in order to, finally, throw out a lot of the “myths” that accompany a person genuinely seeking an authentic life.4.0 out of 5 stars Good BookBy M. Patton on October 5, 2008I like the book and it is a great tool to use for getting to know yourself. I gave it 4 stars because it does come across as overly negative…however…I guess that is the punch some people need to make changes. All in all I really liked the book.