PETER GEYER

Peter Geyer reading C.G. Jung's "The Red Book" Peter Geyer at the 2009 APTi Conference at Dallas

Articles on Personality

I write about type in a number of contexts. The categories here are intended to help you find what you're interested in. Any comments you have are more than welcome.

For earlier writings, please refer to the archive.

About the MBTI^®

Research and Theory

Developing Type: A history from Jung to today (72 kb PDF)
Type, Self and Personality (91 kb PDF)
On difference: models, lives, and human beings (91 kb PDF)
Unfolding, Evolving: type, genes, culture etc (115 kb PDF)
"Type's not everything", but what is it? Some boundaries of knowing (or wanting to know). (72 kb PDF)
Research and Theory, Seeking things out (8 kb PDF)
Theory in Practice: some present(ing) experiences (8 kb PDF)
Conciousness and psychological type - An investigation into meaning and relationship (200 kb PDF)
C.G.Jung's Psychological Types as a contemporary theory of personality

Type and Society
Freewheelin' columns from the Australian Psychological Type Review

One thing after another - On growing up (142kb PDF)
All in it together or is it just for the money? (243kb PDF)
Turbulent life - On menus and other consuming decisions (248 kb PDF)
Identity seeking: Branding and other acts of definition (188 kb PDF)
What's going on - Revolution, toxic sludge and other virtues (504 kb PDF)
Deceptive appearance(s) (167 kb PDF)
Type as dissent: Some pointers (160 kb PDF)
Silence and other intrusions (193 kb PDF)
Life, going forward? Road maps, decisions, etc. (244 kb PDF)
Personal risk - Role models and other demands (144 kb PDF)
Sporting chance - Experts, work and other experiences (288 kb PDF)
Error 87 and other contemporary myths - On life without facts (284 kb PDF)
Sporting Chance: Experts, work and other experiences (16 kb PDF)
Success Full? On potential and its anxieties. (13 kb PDF)

Reviews

Type and Typology - A social and historical excursion (147kb PDF)
Far from home - Reading C G Jung's Red Book adventures (147kb PDF)
Getting there. Modelling life - some hints and structures (114kb PDF)
Looking around Stephanie Bunbury's encounter with Alain de Botton (12kb PDF)
Glibly Attractive? Reading in and around Annie Murphy Paul's The Cult of Personality (32 kb PDF)
Developing Models and Beliefs: Reviewing Grant, Thompson & Clarke's Image to Likeness after 20 years of life and type. (40 kb PDF)
Facts, dreams, culture, intimidation - another Jung life (10 kb PDF)
The Truth is out there somewhere - Ronald Hayman's Biography of C.G.Jung

Travel and culture: type and Jungian interpretations

Tarheeled - Seeking consilience in North Carolina (269kb PDF)
Views from the Grassy Knoll and other vantage points - Two perspectives on the Dallas APTi conference (Geyer and Kerr)
Trains and Boats and Planes - Type and tunnelling around Switzerland (368 kb PDF)
Culture, Travel, Psychological Type (340 kb PDF)
I'm your mirror: - Observation, reflection, culture, Hawaii (444 kb PDF)
Siren Song: A journey to the APTi Baltimore Conference (455 kb PDF)
Counted out/in: Type in Bethesda and other views. (587 kb PDF)
Cultural Norms, and other people: Hawai'i, Type and Culture 2006 (481 kb PDF)
Toronto Dreaming: Typetravel in an age of Terror (11 kb PDF)
Like Sifting Sand - Type in Dubai

Memoir

Is it working for you? - Experiences as a customer and employee with two public organisations (204 kb PDF)
Immigration song: Australians, culture, identity (573 kb PDF)
328 735 kilometres - Persona, cars, labels, life (160 kb PDF)
Waterfalls-their secrets and disposition