ABSTRACT
The purpose of this chapter is to give the reader a basic introduction to psychological type. The origin of psychological type is described with an overview of the eight core type concepts of Introversion-Extraversion, Sensing-Intuition, Thinking-Feeling, and Judging-Perceiving. The combinations of the type characteristics into 16 personality types is explained, along with the traditional methods used to assess psychological type. The seven strengths of a psychological type approach are described.
