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Sources & Citations

Just Your Type: Create the Relationship You've Always Wanted

The Cambridge Handbook of Personal Relationships (3rd ed.)

Type Talk: The 16 Personality Types That Determine How We Live, Love, and Work

MBTI Manual (3rd ed.)

Was That Really Me? How Everyday Stress Brings Out Our Hidden Personality

The Effects of Type Dynamics

The Dynamics of the

Extraverted Thinking Types

Introverted Feeling Types

Introverted Thinking Types

Extraverted Feeling Types

Extraverted Sensing Types

Introverted Intuitive Types

Introverted Sensing Types

Extraverted Intuitive Types

When Hidden Personalities Meet

Type Talk at Work (Revised)

“Would you mind doing this *our* way?”

The Importance of People

SWEET REVENGE

ONE O’CLOCK JUMP

LET’S GET ALONG. THAT’S AN ORDER.

Putting Your Own “House” in Order

Type and Stress Exercise

How to Use the Profiles

Essentials of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Assessment

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DON’T FORGET

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Lifetypes

COMMUNICATION STYLES

MY PREFERENCE

DECIDING

LABORING

M

LOVING

ESFJ

LEADING

LOSING OUT

INFJ

INTJ

The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work

Emotionally Intelligent Marriages

Friendship Versus Fighting

The End Draws Near

But It’s Not Over till It’s Over

Fanning the Flames

Principle 3: Turn Toward Each Other Instead of Away

Principle 4: Let Your Partner Influence You

“Anything You Say, Dear”?

Signs of Resistance

“Unplugging” from Distractions

Housework

The Four Pillars of Shared Meaning

The Magic Six Hours

Psychological Type Therapy: A Practitioner's Guide to Strengthening Relationships

Introduction to Psychological Type

A Caution in Using Four Letter Type Descriptions

Relationship-Specific Type Assessment: The Influence of Context on the Expression of Psychological Type

Step 4: Discuss Type Strengths and Challenges

CHALLENGES OF UNDERDEVELOPED JUDGING

Extraversion - Introversion in Children

Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type

Preface

CHAPTER 10 — Use of the Opposites

CHAPTER 17 — Obstacles to Type Development

INTROVERTS

Please Understand Me II

Chapter 9 Leading

16 Ways to Love Your Lover

LEARNING TO DANCE

PROFILES

Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life (3rd ed.)

Sensing Others’ Needs, No Matter What They’re Saying

“Would you mind doing this our way?”