'thanks for sharing your experiences :) i am certainly not saying forms of therapy other than depth psychotherapy have less significance in general. i think many people with psychological issues...
it is odd because it contrasts with my experience :) i don't think 5s or any other type are so introverted that while they are actually the 3rd most common type (acc. to the stats you quoted),...
I certainly put my impressionistic understanding above the statistics here. To say that type 5 is more common than type 1, 3, 4, 7, 8 and 9 seems really odd.
have you been to therapy? by therapy, i mean long-term, depth psychotherapy - inclusive of psychodynamic, humanistic, existential and jungian therapies. the other kinds of therapy, i feel, do not...
Shark, I'd say the same to this as I did to Kaleidoscope. If they were equally distributed across the population, we would know an equal number of each type, roughly speaking. As for areas - if...
what work do you do? i want to get there :D
if types 4, 5 (not sure about 8 and 9) are not rare, we should know as many people of these types as types 2, 3, 7, and 6 - right? from my experience and apparently, the experience of others who...
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Going by personal experience, I would say that type 5 is the rarest type to find. Next would be 4, then 9. I'm 28 and I've known the enneagram for 10 years. I'm a 4w5 and I have never met someone...
63162 I often get told how I look different. The adjectives people use for my facial expression are - poker faced, deep, very serious, calm, detached, distant - in an alternate world. The facial...
I am studying psychology, and the more I read about the psychodynamics of the schizoid personality, the more I find it fits me - introversion, detachment, interest in spiritual / philosophical...
Is isolation a theme for us INFPs? I find myself often feeling unable to connect with many people, even friends I've known for years. I see myself withdrawing because those others don't really...
Not at all. I feel stuck in darkness, and it's been this way for at least 2 and a half years. I'm going to therapy and I hope that helps. I need to look for a job but am not really doing much about...
when i meet people anew, specially in a new class, or workplace, or something, i am often asked this question. recently i joined a class where everyone quite younger than me, and i don't quite feel...
INFPs, has anyone told you that you have a blank expression on your face, that you are poker-faced? I've been considering being a psychotherapist, and one of the things that makes me go against...
do INFPs have serious issues with anger? in my teens, i would rarely get angry at people and when i did, i found it hard to express my anger at them if i didn't know them closely. but for those i was...
thanks! i think i use my Ne quite a bit, and decently, so that's not really a problem. i think i understand what you say about developing your weaker functions 'backed up' by your strong...
what is the relationship between one's primary jungian type and personal growth? when i look back at my life, i see that my talents and joys are something i owe to my type - introverted feeling...
How would INFPs fare as journalists? I worked as a reporter for a magazine on education once, for a little less than a year. I enjoyed the writing bit, and the fact that we were a small team...
i too find both these fields quite exciting and am planning to study psychology. what do you think in the INFP makes him (or her) a healer? i think it is the introverted feeling, which can...
INFPs are often described as artistic. I don't consider myself an artist, but I have a strong interest in art - cinema, poetry, music, especially classical music, and so on. I often sing and...
what am i meant to do, why am i here, what is my true self? INFPs deal with these questions the most, i suppose, although it is really a question fundamental to all human beings does a calling...
You seem to have had a bitter experience, sort of. I think all 4 things you point out are really Fe - incredibly nurturing, social butterflies in a way that feels superficial to INFPs, people...
Thanks! I wish some more ENFJs or INFPs would comment on this.
so far the results say about 50% are in their teens
I'm 27. My impression is that most of the members here would be in their late teens or early twenties. I used to frequent such forums in my late teens. I used to do it to get a better...
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Have any INFPs here been in close relationships with ENFJs? This January, I started one of the most important and intimate relationships of my life - I entered therapy with a psychoanalytic...
:) ... you are welcome that actual disorders are only treated by psychiatrists - this is not true, as i said above. but, i would say that statistically, if someone is slitting their wrists,...
well, often you know what you deeply want, but you aren't sure if that is just a sentimental choice that you will regret later. sometimes being practical is better for your own long term happiness.
one addition - i know that in the past in the US, you had to have a medical degree to train as a psychoanalyst. my impression is that this is no longer the case, but do make sure. check with the...
I would rethink what you say about psychiatrists seeing people with 'real disorders' and psychologists not seeing such people. I think psychologists also treat people with real 'disorders', which may...
Might INFPs be the most indecisive type? I know that as an introverted feeler, my inferior function is extroverted thinking, which is central to deciding things, implementing them, and in...
So you mean introverted feeling, and introverted feeling combined with extraverted intuition, are neurotic characteristics? Defining neuroticism is complicated, but I would think that all types...
this is interesting. i think jung associated feeling specifically with women, and not just with femininity. i do think it is possible that at jung's time it was women who ended up being introverted...
How did you discover your type? I am 27 now. I have been interested in MBTI and Jungian types since I was 17, off and on. However, it is only in the last 3 months or so that I feel certain that I...
I am an INFP and I find myself to be rather androgynous. I am a male but I am not very masculine, but not exactly effeminate either. My ESTP, uber-masculine friend and I are a quite a contrast...
This is an extension of the thread I started about INFPs and philosophy. I've always had an ambivalent relationship to academia. I love reading, and my room is full of books - mostly on religion...
How does one come to be the type one is? Is it a result of the experiences one has as a child? Or is one born with it - not meaning that type is in one's genes, but in an Eastern...
I wonder what the attitude of INFPs to studying philosophy is. Throughout my childhood and teens, I was always called 'the philosophical type' by family. The little glimpses I had of the Buddha,...
thanks, both for your replies. that's good feedback and gives me something to think about. :)
I'm an INFP who has been habituated to live very much in the intellectual world. I'm about to make a major career decision. I've been fascinated with psychotherapy - Jung, Freud, Frankl, Rogers,...
Hey Psilo. I just read the descriptions of the Jungian types you posted from J H Van der Hoop's book 'Conscious Orientation'. Thanks very much for posting these, they were very helpful! I was...'
