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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
My father's book Please Understand Me II has been and still is a bestseller for years. And his first book Please Understand Me, a bestseller for 25 years still sells very well, but I always recommend People Patterns over Please Understand Me, and for most people it is the best introduction to understanding themselves and others.
Steve, my brother-in-law, has done a brilliant job in giving an insightful summary and easy read on my father's important work and insight into the nature of individuals -- their inherent personality: their temperament.
Learn about yourself and more importantly learn that your spouse, kids, parents, friends, and colleagues are most likely fundamentally different from you, but that is good not bad.
People Patterns is the fastest, easiest, and most pleasurable way to learn important information about yourself and others.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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This book does not dwelve into the history of temperaments as could be expected. The presentation on Amazon is sadly lacking and so I say to potential customers: This is basically a re-hashing and dumbing-down of Keirsey's Please Understand Me.
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28 of 28 people found the following review helpful
Highly recommended introduction to personality types
20 Feb 2003
Format:Paperback
People Patterns by Stephen Montgomery is a great introduction to David Keirsey's complex temperment theory. The approach is both fun and informative. You take a short test to determine your personality type (rational, idealist, guardian, or artisan) and then you can learn all about how your type and other types behave in different life situations, such as relationships and career. He gives some good career suggestions for each type. The really fun part is Montgomery's use of characters from popular novels and films to illustrate the different types. I particularly liked the Harry Potter references. One of his important points is that each personality type has their own unique talents and ways of approaching life, and it's a losing battle to try to change others to fit your blueprint. Try the test on your friends and family; it's fun and will change the way you look at others and yourself. Highly recommended!
23 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Genius for Linking Pop Culture and Temperament
15 July 2004
Format:Paperback
I am a practicing Career Management Psychologist for the past 29 years and an early advocate of the work of Dr. David Keirsey in its application to career discovery and assessment. Mr. Montgomery, having edited Dr. Keirsey's three books since 1977, has a wonderful ability to take the power inherent in understanding one's "hard wiring" and applying it to the key issues suggested by Freud that lead to mental health i.e. love and work. What makes People Patterns particularly powerful is Mr. Montgomery's talent for explaining type and temperatment through the filter of popular culture. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Mr. Montgomery has a clear and incisive writing style that augments a simply brilliant ability to take the work of celebrities and accurately assess their type and temperament. Whether the spicy women of Sex and the City or the Houses in the Harry Potter tales, Mr. Montgomery grabs the reader with his deep and unabiding understanding of this aspect of the human condition. I can't recommend this book more enthusiastically. It has been a treasure for both me and my clients.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
A Necessary Suppliment
13 July 2004
Format:Paperback
If understanding the depths of temperment is your objective, then this is a must-add to your phychology library. Although Dr. Keirsey's "Please Understand Me II" serves to verify the approach that temperment is nature within us, Montgomery's "People Patterns" augments this understanding for the person interested in a deeper comprehension of the subject. The two writings go hand in hand. It would serve the wise person to have a thorough collection of research on the matter to attend to those around them-as well as their own soul's understanding-and Montgomery's work is a piece of that knowledge pie!
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