Talk:Myers–Briggs Type Indicator/to do
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History
[edit]Jung first wrote of two distinct differences in personality in 19134, in what he later described as his "...need to define the ways in which my outlook differed from Freud's and Adler's." In 1921, Jung extrapolated on his ideas of introversion and extraversion in his work Psychological Types, and two years later the work was translated from german into english.
Two years later, Myers's family adopted Jung's ideas into their home and became avid "type-watchers," testing Jung's theory among family and friends for the next 2 decades, until the United States entered World War II in 19415.
- ^Note 5 : Jung, Carl Gustav. Memories, Dreams, Reflections. Vintage Books: New York, 1965. p. 207.
- "Myers, Isabel Briggs (1970). Personal letter to Mary McCaulley. The MBTI Qualifying Program: The Center for Applications of Psychological Type, 2004. p. 20.
- ^Note 5 : Myers later described her motivation for starting the type indicator as thus: "In the darkest days of World War II when the Germans were rolling irresistibly along and my shoulders ached with trying to hold them back and a horrible sinking feeling lived in the pit of my stomach, the thought came to me one day (I was making my bed at the time) that by letting them spoil my life that way i was helping them win, bringing destruction to pass by my own doing...What I did, as it turned out, was the Type Indicator."