kellyxmen's review against another edition
3.0
Rigid and too specific to accommodate most people (well I don’t know. I didn’t conduct any studies. I just know for me it was too specific. I would start off nodding my head along and going “ok I think she’s onto something because I feel this” and she would veer off and it would kinda feel like a bad psychic reading like “No not quite. Actually that’s completely off now.”)
Some of the types are straight up pathological and are Cluster B personality disorders. Maybe that’s the nature of enneagram? Normalized pathologies.
I’m hating hard right now with my negative remarks but I also did resonate with parts of it. So much so that I cried. So it gets a 3 overall.
Some of the types are straight up pathological and are Cluster B personality disorders. Maybe that’s the nature of enneagram? Normalized pathologies.
I’m hating hard right now with my negative remarks but I also did resonate with parts of it. So much so that I cried. So it gets a 3 overall.
anywho2's review against another edition
4.0
Seemed well written and researched. It felt accurate to my type and was generally informative.
lestaslettering's review against another edition
5.0
Ok, this was the most informative, well explained, descriptive knowledge base about enneagram I have ever read so far. I never really got into enneagram before that much, mainly because I disliked the bias some of the online communities have, that if you're an INFP you're most probably a 4w5. And if you're definitely sure you're a 5w4, then you're a mistyped INTP. Seriously! INFP descriptions fit me perfectly and though I get that a lot of INFPs are 4w5, I'm not. I always felt that I was a 5 and not a 4 and this book explains each type so well. So you know, maybe I have a Four wing, but I'm definitely a five. And that part about each type's cognitive mistakes and traps, that was awesome. I also loved the explanation of the three instinctual variants of each type. This just made it firm for me that I'm a 5w4 with sp/sx variant rather than a 4w5 with a so variant. Thank you Beatrice.
sfalk16's review against another edition
3.0
This is an incredibly thorough walk through the enneagram. I will admit that I skimmed most of the book and focused mainly on my number, but I definitely plan to reread the whole thing again and again. So much insight into myself and those I do life with.
caseykc's review against another edition
5.0
A thorough and _complete_ enneagram textbook to revisit again and again.
trev_'s review against another edition
Not feeling it right now.
Might come back to it later.
Might come back to it later.
khjb's review against another edition
4.0
Great in-depth descriptions of the subtypes of each Ennegram number, as well as suggestions for growth/action, for those who want to delve a little deeper.
jasminerva's review against another edition
the way I read a 500 page textbook on pseudoscience but procrastinate on reading 50 pages of my textbook