Category Archives: theory

History of Madness – Track 16

Posted on June 19, 2016 by Keirsey

Audio Track 16:  Discussing the criteria of “madness”. Professor Keirsey had his lecture course on Madness taped on cassettes in 1982.  They were rediscovered after his death by chance and some sections of the tapes were partly recovered. This post is the … Continue reading →

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History of Madness – Track 10

Posted on November 2, 2015 by Keirsey

Professor Keirsey had his lecture course on Madness taped on cassettes in 1982.  This post is the tenth audio track.  More audio tracks will follow. Track 1:  The beginning of History of Madness lecture course He surveys the idea of madness “as … Continue reading →

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History of Madness – Track 8

Posted on September 23, 2015 by Keirsey

Professor Keirsey had his lecture course on Madness taped on cassettes in 1982.  This post is the eighth audio track.  More audio tracks will follow. Track 1:  The beginning of History of Madness lecture course He surveys the idea of madness “as … Continue reading →

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History of Madness – Track 5

Posted on May 13, 2015 by Keirsey

Professor Keirsey had his lecture course on Madness taped on cassettes in 1982.  This post is the fifth audio track.  More audio tracks will follow. Track 1:  The beginning of History of Madness lecture course He surveys the idea of madness “as … Continue reading →

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The Revolution of Corrective Counseling

Posted on September 6, 2014 by Keirsey

[Editor: This is one of the last pieces of my father’s writings] [Editor: HyperLinks added] [Pillars of Madness] This revolution revealed to those who cared to look that every successful method of corrective counseling owed its success, not to the factor … Continue reading →

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Defending One’s Self

Posted on August 21, 2014 by Keirsey

DEFENDING SELF EACH PERSON WANTS HIS OR HER WORTHINESS VALUED IF IT IS NOT VALUED, THEN THE PERSON FEELS SHAME WHEN A PERSON FEELS SHAME, THAT PERSON DEFENDS SELF BY EMPLOYING A SAFEGUARDING ROLE AND A DISTRACTING RITUAL AND, IF … Continue reading →

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The Premise of Madness

Posted on December 3, 2013 by Keirsey

The Premise of Madness The following is one of Dr. David West Keirsey’s last distillations of his work on “Madness”.  Even I forget that he even included the method of intervention. “Though this is madness, yet there’s method in it” — … Continue reading →

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Productive Ability

Posted on March 30, 2013 by Keirsey

The four kinds of ability are not equally distributed. Half of the population, fifty percent, are Guardians, born with logistical ability, Forty percent of the population are Artisans, born with tactical ability. That leaves a mere ten percent for the … Continue reading →

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Tool Use & Word Use

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Dr. C
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ABILITY: Safeguarding Roles and Distracting Rituals

Posted on October 15, 2011 by Keirsey

The above is a frame of coordinates with column factors that intersect with row factors resulting in INTERSECTION variants.  Each variant is unique. Thus, consider intersection 1A, Diplomatic Preempting. Note how different it is from, say, intersection 4A, Diplomatic Accommodating, … Continue reading →

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