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Wikipedia Article Outline – Isabel Briggs Myers

General Overview •	Born Oct. 18, 1897 and Died May 5, 1980 •	Co Creator of MBTI •	Swarthmore College graduate – political science focus •	Spouse – Clarence Myers •	Inspired by Carl Jung •	Wrote novels •	Co founded CAPT (Center of Applications of Personality Type) •	The six qualities to be desired: self respect, love, peace of mind, involvement, understanding, freedom

Beginning of Psychology Career Relationship with Mother •	Katharine Brigg’s vision since being a young child was to study human development and humans’ full potential •	Studied diversity and differences among human beings •	Came across psychologist Carl Jung’s book entitled Psychological Types and agreed with his ideas – lived to spread his ideology •	Isabel lived the second half of her life to carry out mother’s vision and help people find their “best-fit type” through application and research Encountering Jung’s ideas •	Discovered Jung’s ideas in 1923 – arose twenty years of “type watching” which is studying personality type •	Isabel implemented a written survey to assess personality type – became MBTI after 30 years of research

MBTI Personality Test •	Short summary of four types with link to main page •	Four Preferences: Extraversion or Introversion, Sensing or Intuition, Thinking or Feeling, Judging or Perceiving (the type Isabel added) •	Research still continues today on this test instrument and several articles are posted each year •	In Isabel’s life, the test was affected by the difference of her and her husband, answers on by freshman at George Washington School of Medicine, etc. •	1975 – Consulting Psychologists Press, Inc. published MBTI instrument for application •	1975 – Isabel Myers and Mary McCaulley, Ph.D. cofounded CAPT – a nonprofit organization to support the research of MBTI •	Translated into 30 languages •	Books have been published about how to use MBTI in various fields and aspects of life such as education and intimate relationships •	MBTI is supposed to make one appreciate themselves and differences among others

Publications •	Isabel was passionate about her work and wrote books about its use and development Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type •	Link to main page •	Written by Isabel Briggs Myers and Peter B. Myers •	About human personality and how it affects career, marriage, and meaning of life •	Work on the 16 major personality types of MBTI Introduction to Type •	Describes theories and applications of MBTI

Manual •	A guide to development and use of MBTI

Murder Yet to Come •	Written in 1929 •	Won the national Detective Murder Mystery Contest •	Isabel’s only fiction work •	Mastery of personality worked into a murder mystery

Legacy

Center for Applications of Psychological Type •	Isabel cofounded this organization in 1975 •	It exists to protect and promote her ideas •	Promotes the research of the MBTI Indicator •	Located in Gainesville, Florida •	Motto: “Fostering human understand through training, publishing, and research”

Memorial Research Awards •	Two $2,000 awards biennially •	For excellence in psychological type research based on Jungian theory and/or the MBTI

References “Isabel Briggs Myers and Her Mother, Katharine Cook Briggs.” The Myers & Briggs Foundation. The Myers & Briggs Foundation. n.d, Web. 19 Feb. 2012.

“Judging or Perceiving.” The Myers & Briggs Foundation. The Myers & Briggs Foundation, 1997, Web. 19 Feb. 2012.

The Story of Isabel Briggs Myers. Center for Applications of Psychological Type. Center for     Applications of Psychological Type, Inc, 2012. Web. 19 Feb. 2012.

“Memorial Research Awards.” The Myers & Briggs Foundation. The Myers & Briggs Foundation. n.d, Web. 19 Feb. 2012.

Rev. of Gifts Differing: Understand Personality Type, by Isabel Briggs Myers. Innovation Watch (1993): n. pag. Web. 19 Feb. 2012.