MSI Press Blog

  Excerpt from  Understanding the Critic  (Quinelle) -  Introduction Do you ever think you were born into the wrong family? Ever wonder what on earth your gifts are? This book is the second in a series of 16 books based on Dr. Ekaterina Filatova’s work, which was first made available to an English-speaking population through her opus , Understanding the People around You: An Introduction to Socionics (2009). Each of the 16 volumes is dedicated to a different socion or sociotype (a personality type within the framework of a society—or in more familiar Western parlance, a psychological type, or psychotype); these terms are used interchangeably in this book. This particular book, the one you are holding in your hands, is dedicated to the Critic personality type, the Introverted, Intuitive, Thinker, Irrational psychological type. This book will help you understand the Critic personality around you—and if you are a Critic, it may help you understand yourself better...

  Excerpt from Understanding the Analyst (Quinelle)  -   Introduction Do you ever think you were born into the wrong family? Ever wonder what on earth your gifts are? This book is one in a series of 16 books based on Dr. Ekaterina Filatova’s work, which was first made available to an English-speaking population through her opus , Understanding the People Around You: An Introduction to Socionics (2009). Each of the 16 volumes is dedicated to a different socion or sociotype (a personality type within the framework of a society—or in more familiar Western parlance, a psychological type, or psychotype); these terms are used interchangeably in this book. This particular book, the one you are holding in your hands, is dedicated to the Analyst personality type, the Introverted, Intuitive, Thinker, Rational psychological type. This book will help you understand the Analyst personality around you—and if you are an Analyst, it may help you understand yourself better. ...

The Quinelle series of books, based on Understanding the People around You , focuses on individual personality types. The excerpt below is from Understanding the Entrepreneur: Socionics in Everyday Life . It is from the introduction, which identifies the 16 socions (Jungian personality types) presented by Dr. Filatova, using one of the two models (Model A and Model J) by which socionists organize the tyeps. Which is your type? Check below! Want more information? Read the books! Start with Filatova's book, then turn to Quinelle's books that break out the individual styles: Understanding the Analyst Understnading the Critic Undersntading the Enterpreneur Understanding the Seeker ---- at least three more coming in 2020 (Romantic, Performer, Professional) From Understanding the Entrepreneur : Model J Model J also includes 16 psychological types, but the representational system used by Model J is simplified. For each of the 16 psychological types, Model J uses...

  The Quinelle series of books, based on  Understanding the People around You , focuses on individual personality types. The excerpt below is from  Understanding the Seeker: Socionics in Everday Life . Want more information? Read the books! Start with Filatova's book, then turn to Quinelle's books that break out the individual styles: Understanding the Analyst Understanding the Critic Understanding the Entrepreneur Understanding the Seeker ---- at least three more coming in 2022 (Romantic, Performer, Professional) Understanding the Seeker’s Approach to Life What is the Seeker? The Seeker is an Intuitive Thinking Extrovert (ITE). As such, he or she is a combination of the three expressed traits and the unexpressed trait, Irrationality (emphasis on the Jungian definition, not the English-language lay definition). Filatova describes the Seeker in the following way: The most attractive feature of Seekers (ITEs) is their enthusiastic look, as if they are oversized chil...