ABSTRACT
Katherine Cook Briggs exhaustive efforts with Isabel Briggs Myers meant that by the time Isabel was entering kindergarten she could read. Katherine also had a very modern philosophy that the knowledge that a child has, does not make them clever. Katherine’s writing success was soon followed by Isabel who, from the age of 14, began submitting editorials and letters to magazines. Katherine began to struggle in ‘letting go’ of Isabel. Whilst Isabel was growing her family, the avid reader Katherine had begun directing her attention back to her own education. The ‘indicator’ was born from Katherine and Isabel’s ideas about Jung’s personality types, funded by their family and driven by Isabel’s passion. Following his publication of psychological types in 1937, Katherine had begun corresponding with Carl Jung. Based on Jungian theory, the term ‘test’ is frequently associated with the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), but the MBTI is an indicator of personality and not a test per se.
