Enneagram Movie
and Video Guide: How to See Personality styles
in the Movies (Revised Second Edition)
By Thomas Condon
See Your Favorite Stars in a
Whole New Light.
Whether you are a movie lover, aspiring actor, storyteller,
student of psychology or Enneagram enthusiast, this spirited original book
will alter the way you see movies forever. From classics to independent
films to mega-hits like Titanic, personality types are everywhere in the
movies — if you know how to see them.
The Enneagram is a fascinating and popular system that
describes nine personality types that human beings most favor. It is used
in communication, self knowledge, story construction, actors. Knowledge
of the Enneagram is helpful in dozens of ways, from understanding relationships
to improving communication to handling difficult people. Newcomers to the
Enneagram are often amazed to find clear accurate portraits of themselves
and everyone else that they know. The Enneagram is about people —
how we are the same, how we are different, what makes us tick.
Written in a lively entertaining style, The
Enneagram Movie & Video Guide "cracks the code" with
help you learn the Enneagram quickly and apply it towards the personal
and professional goals most important to you. This book is an indispensable
source for movie buffs, students of human behavior and the Enneagram
alike.This 2nd edition is updated and enlarged, including a new Master
Index as well as advanced Enneagram distinctions like wings and subtypes.
“The Enneagram Movie & Video Guide is an easy read
and functions as an admission ticket to a realm in which we can gain a
deeper understanding of movie characters and personality types. Considered
to be one of the oldest forms of psychological assessment, the Enneagram
has remained elusive to many, but, thanks to
Thomas Condon, here is a format (finally) that anyone can understand.
The actors and movies are clearly indexed so readers
can easily find their favorite actors and delve deeply into the movie characters’
psyches. There is no stuffy psychobabble, just clear descriptions about
using our most celebrated medium - film - as a tool of psychological discovery.
This is a must-read for people who already know the Enneagram - it will
help them to deepen their insights - and it is a great introduction for
the newcomer."
- New Age Retailer
Thomas Condon has worked with the Enneagram since 1979.
He has taught at Antioch University, and the University of California,
Berkeley, as well as in hundreds of workshops in the U.S. and Europe.
He is the author of 35 audiotapes and two books.
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What People Say About This Book
"A mine of real gold! What is beguiling about Condon’s
work, besides an uncommonly fine literary style, is the clarity with which
he points out Enneagram styles that most students have trouble seeing.”
- The National Catholic Reporter
“Condon breaks new ground! If you watch the movies,
or even just read these reviews, your Enneagram assessing skills will increase
dramatically.”
- The Enneagram Educator
“A real find! Condon’s movie guide provides not only
a snappy introduction to the Enneagram’s personality types, butwrite-ups
of about 1000 movies focusing on the main characters and their behaviors.
A series of movies exhibiting one type will give the reader a great sense
of both the basic issues and their variations for that type. Condon provides
capsule reviews plus good viewing and study suggestions.”
- Inner Journeys Book Review
“In becoming a psychotherapist it was always clear
that reading great novels taught me more than any psychology course. Thomas
Condon has taken film-the art form of our time-to show the mind heart and
bodily experience of each Enneagram style. Truly a great book!”
- Margaret Frings Keyes
Author, Emotions & The Enneagram
“Condon utilizes movie characters to disclose the inner
workings and psychodynamics of each style. This book is fun, well written
and a great source of Enneagram instruction. The use of film is a powerful
method for capturing the nuances and essence of every personality style.”
- Enneagram Monthly
“Not since Helen Palmer broke the ice with her classic
work The Enneagram has learning this fascinating system of personality
types been so easy. Considered to be one of the oldest forms of psychological
assessment, the Enneagram has remained elusive to many, but, thanks to
Thomas Condon, here is a format (finally) that anyone can understand.
This book emphasizes the illustration of the nine Enneagram types through
observation by providing the personality types for almost one thousand
movie characters. The Guide is an easy read and functions as an admission
ticket to a realm in which we can gain a deeper understanding of moviecharacters
and personality types.
This is a must-read for people who already know the
Enneagram - it will help them to deepen their insights - and it is a great
introduction for the newcomer. The actors and movies are clearly indexed
so readers can easily find their favorite actors and delve deeply into
the movie characters’ psyches. There is no stuffy psychobabble, just clear
descriptions about using our most celebrated medium - film - as a tool
of psychological discovery.
Bookstores: Get The Enneagram Movie and Video Guide
and display it in your store. It will be a steady seller for a long time.”
- Mark Husson, Twelfth House Bookstore
- New Age Retailer
“Have you ever watched a movie and wondered, “Why did
that character do that?” If you have, read The Enneagram Movie and Video
Guide by Thomas Condon, the one and only book to review the movies and
their characters in terms of the Enneagram, a popular psychological system
of personality types. With The Enneagram Movie and Video Guide
you won’t have to analyze your friends. Instead, you’ll have thousands
of characters at your disposal - and you can watch them behave over and
over just by pressing “rewind.” This is a wonderful book for learning and/or
increasing your understanding of the Enneagram."
- Leading Edge Review
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