Jungian typology as a holistic teaching strategy in higher education

With an eye to the application of principles of holistic education and integrated development to higher education, this discussion has as its aim to describe the work of a reflective teaching team in educational psychology. Using developmental issues within the Jungian psychological functions of sensing (physical), intuition (creative, spiritual), thinking (cognitive), and feeling (social and emotional), our team designed activities and discussions related to the holistic growth of college students. Results indicate a theoretical model that can offer practical applications to teaching and learning of college students

Jungian Typology of Professional Psychodramatists: Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Analysis of Certified Psychodramatists

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator scores of 170 certified psychodramatists were collected. As anticipated, self-selection was readily apparent in the group as 87% were intuitive rather than sensing types. Psychodramatists are most likely to be intuitive feelers, and extraverted intuitive feeling perceivers represent 29% of all certified professionals. In general there were no major differences in psychological types between psychodramatists and samples from their original academic training (psychology, social work, etc.). In comparing psychodramatists with other psychotherapeutic orientations, psychodramatists were most like experiential psychotherapists and most different from psychoanalytic therapists. As compared to Jacoby's scale of innovative versus conservative types, 87% of the psychodramatists are innovative. That spontaneity and creativity are regarded as essential to psychodrama is suggested by both the preponderance of innovative types among professionally certified psychodramatists and the systematic exclusion of most conservative types. Studies of other certified therapists would provide a base for further comparison of psychological types between psychotherapeutic orientations.

Jungian Typology of Prospective Psychodramatists: Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Analysis of Applicants for Psychodrama Training

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator scores of 10 selected and 27 nonselected applicants to a year-long psychodrama training program were compared. As expected, self-selection was readily apparent in the applicants as 84% were intuitive rather than sensing types. 37 applicants as a group were more likely to be extraverted than introverted but equal numbers of extraverts and introverts were accepted to the program. As compared to Jacoby's scale of innovative versus conservative types, all 10 selected applicants were innovative. That spontaneity and creativity are regarded as essential to psychodrama is suggested by both the preponderance of innovative types among the applicants and the systematic exclusion of all the conservative types. The most prevalent type among trainees is extraverted, intuitive, feeling and perceiving. Further studies should be conducted to ascertain the predominant types of professional psychodramatists.