Intimacy and Type : Building Enduring Relationships by Embracing Personality Differences

A good relationship with another person is one of the most essential ingredients for a satisfying life. Nurturing that relationship so it will grow is not always easy it s good to have help!
Intimacy and Type uses the principles of psychological type to give couples common ground for understanding how their individual personalities impact their interactions in relationships. You can't change the personality of your partner, but you can learn better approaches for framing your words and actions so the result is constructive rather than destructive.
This book was originally written as a resource for counseling professionals, and is now revised so that it also speaks to the everyday person who just wants to understand more about themselves and their love partner. It includes very practical information, with clarifying examples regarding common conflict areas, hints to overcome them, and in-depth examinations of how all the various types interact.
This book gives counselors and individuals a new approach for embracing differences (and similarities) that can positively enhance intimate relationships.

Jane Hardy Jones, Ed. D., was an educator, researcher, and counselor at the University of Hawaii. During her forty-year career she maintained a private practice that was primarily focused on individual, marital and relationship counseling. She was responsible for introducing the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® assessment to the faculty and staff at the University of Hawaii, where it is still used today. Dr. Jones was also a co-author of CAPT's Type for Life guide, Building Better Relationships: Using the lens of personality to help couples thrive.

Ruth G. Sherman, Ph. D., was a psychologist and a founding member of the Association for Psychological Type (APTi). Dr. Sherman wrote one of the earliest dissertations on marriage counseling using the MBTI® assessment in order to give couples the tools for bridging personality differences. Dr. Sherman was a well-known lecturer and author and trained a myriad of students on the use of the MBTI instrument in clinical settings. She worked closely with co-author Jane Hardy Jones at the Counseling and Testing Center at the University of Hawaii.