Testimonials from clients

I had over ten years of therapy and Twelve-Step programs before I got into this Inner-Child, look-at-your-numbers-and-letters therapy. All of that was helpful, I suppose, but none of it helped me go as deeply into my Real Being as this type of therapy did.

Reilly (INTJ-4)

I feel this combination of MBTI®, Enneagram and Inner-Child work is the most helpful form of therapy in which I have ever participated. I have seen more practical, tangible, positive results from this inner work . . . than anything else I've tried.

Rhonda (ENFJ-7)

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Testimonials from other professionals

Pat Wyman thinks systematically, and often brilliantly. She has managed to elegantly demonstrate . . . where overlaps occur between the two systems [MBTI® and Ennegram], and where they do not . . . which is a very effective way of displaying the parameters.

Helen Palmer
The Enneagram: Understanding Yourself and the Others in Your Life and The Enneagram in Love and Work

Pat Wyman is a pioneer . . . Her cutting edge book deftly merges the MBTI® and the Enneagram into an easy-to-understand format. . . . a masterpiece in detail and thought. For professionals who work to discern 'what makes people tick,' Pat's work [is] an interactive system for all to use.

Sandra Ford Walston
Courage: The Heart and Spirit of Every Woman

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Therapist Pat Wyman's ground-breaking new book, Three Keys to Self-Understanding, introduces a unique and effective threefold approach to psychotherapy incorporating

• the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® instrument
• the Enneagram
• Inner-Child Healing

Wyman skillfully balances the theoretical with the practical, weaving experiential exercises and techniques into the detailed presentation of real-life case histories.

Intended as a hands-on, interactive guide for self-exploration, the book will also appeal to practicing counselors and therapists. (For book outline and chapter summary, click here.)

Emotional Wounds

Wyman believes that, to varying degrees, we all grow up in dysfunctional families, which cannot help but inflict emotional wounds of one sort or another. The result of this early wounding is the development of a Defense System and the fragmenting of our Core Self.

"Some people never fully express their true personalities because of obstacles from the past," says Wyman. Only by healing these deep wounds (and thereby dismantling our Defense System) are we able to reintegrate our Core Self.

Here are example charts showing compatible and oppositional qualities for MBTI ISTJ and Enneagram 1, and MBTI ISTJ and Enneagram 9.

How to Heal

This dynamic method of healing utilizes affective therapy in the form of Inner-Child work, based on an individual's personality type:

• the Enneagram represents a person's Defense System
• the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® describes the Core Self and, by extension, the Inner Child

Starting with identification of the triggers that move you away from your Core Self, you begin to re-establish access to your inner wisdom - integrating your mind, body, and spirit - and thus creating a safe place to be you.

"Up until now," says Wyman, "Inner-Child Therapy has taken a one-size-fits-all approach. This new model demonstrates how understanding the roles of the two personality typing systems can more effectively facilitate personal growth. Using the keys of the Enneagram, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® and Inner-Child Therapy can expedite the journey of recovery."

Three Keys to Self-Understanding represents the culmination of ten years of Wyman's therapeutic work with clients, many of whom courageously share their stories (as well as artwork, poems, and letters, which are interspersed throughout the text). Perhaps the greatest testament to the power of Wyman's work appears in the Epilogue, where some of these former clients tell, in their own words, what this work has meant to them and how their lives have changed as a result (see sidebar for testimonials).

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A book outline and chapter summary in PDF format is available here.

Three Keys to Self-Understanding is published by the Center For Applications of Psychological Type (CAPT) and is available by calling 1-800-777-2278 or at www.capt.org.

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