To C.G. Jung

TRACKING THE ELUSIVE HUMAN puts you on the trail that leads to the discovery of your own type and its development. Here is a compassionate and tolerant view of what makes people different that will serve you well both at home and on the job.

It describes C.G. Jung's psychological types, and the body and temperament types of William Sheldon, and these descriptions are interwoven with an actual account of what it's like to go on the inner journey of individuation by way of typology.

The work of these pioneering psychologists is seen in its true light as a practical way of dealing with daily life. TRACKING THE ELUSIVE HUMAN goes on to show how types play a role in falling in love, marriage, and the bringing up of children, and it puts special emphasis on the crucial role that our fourth, or least developed function, plays in our overall growth. It is enlivened with line drawings, cartoons and self-discovery quizzes.

Reviews

"Discussions of Jung's psychology are often bogged down in theoretical interpretations: the beauty of this volume is in its practical applications to daily life... The paths of self-discovery create refreshingly sharp portraits of mind/body types and relationships, leading the reader on a gentle path of realization and growth. Tracking takes Jung's concepts and Sheldon's work, combines the two, and leads non-psychologically trained readers past the maze of jargon and analysis and on the road to practical self-discovery." The Midwest Book Review

Reviews of the first version of Tracking the Elusive Human called A Tool for Understanding Human Differences:

"This book offers a compassionate view of differences among human beings. The authors have combined methods devised by William Sheldon (1898-1977), an American physician and psychologist, for correlating body types and personality with C.G. Jung's (1875-1961) system of classifying psychological types. Although this might sound like a discourse for post-graduate study, it is written in a light, readable style, and contains many humorous drawings." Wholistic Living News

"The authors give parallel expositions of William Sheldon's theory of body types and of Jung's theory of psychological types with the aim of illustrating how the two models complement and illuminate each other. They hope thereby to promote on the one hand individual psychic growth and, on the other, interpersonal understanding and tolerance of differences. They show a sound appreciation of Jung's typology, especially its value in enabling a person to discover his inferior function or functions, an essential step in the individuation process." Journal of Analytical Psychology

PART I: TRACKING 

1 C.G. JUNG'S PSYCHOLOGICAL TYPES  
   What is a Type?  
   Who was C.G. Jung?  
   The Basic Elements  
   Introversion - Extraversion Quiz  
   Thinking - Feeling Quiz  
   Intuition - Sensation Quiz  
   A Capsule Summary of the Eight Types  
   The Extraverted Sensation Type  
   The Extraverted Intuition Type  
   The Extraverted Feeling Type  
   The Extraverted Thinking Type  
   Introversion  
   The Introverted Sensation Type  
   The Introverted Intuition Type 
   The Introverted Feeling Type  
   The Introverted Thinking Type  
   What Is Your Psychological Type?  

2  TYPE DEVELOPMENT    
   Types Together  
   Types and Tolerance  
   Types and Stereotypes  
   Projection and Prejudice  
   Types and Environment  
   Parents  
   Types and Children  

3 MARRIAGE AND THE FOURTH FUNCTION 
   The Fourth Function  
   Marriage and the Fourth Function  
   Living with the Fourth Function  
   Books for Further Study  

4 WILLIAM SHELDON'S BODY AND TEMPERAMENT TYPES 
   Who was William Sheldon?  
   The Basic Components of Physique  
   The Extreme Endomorph - Roundness  
   The Extreme Mesomorph - Muscles  
   The Extreme Ectomorph - Linear  
   Body Type Recognition  
   Sheldon's Temperament Types  
   The Extreme Endotonic - Friendliness 
   The Extreme Mesotonic - Action  
   The Extreme Ectotonic - Reflection 
   Temperament Quiz  
   Seeing Body and Temperament Tracks 
   Mesomorphic America  
   Body and Temperament Type Development  
   Books for Further Study  

5 TWO TRACKS IN ONE  
   The Psychological Type of the Endotonic  
   The Psychological Type of the Male Mesotonic  
   The Introverted Intuition Type, the Extraverted Thinking Type and the Extraverted Sensation Type 

The Introverted Sensation Type  
The Body Type  
The Temperament Type  

The Extraverted Intuition Type  
The Body Type 
The Temperament Type  

The Extraverted Feeling Type  
The Body Type  
The Temperament Type  

The Introverted Thinking and Introverted Feeling Types 
The Body Type  
The Temperament Type  

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