What Carl Jung is known for

In the 1920s, Jung’s theory was adapted by Katharine Cook Briggs, and Isabel Briggs Myers to create the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®).

This is how the four-letter personality acronyms were born. We are of course referring to those mysterious acronyms like INTJ, ENFP, or ESTJ. The fou...

The most popular personality tests falsely assume that people can be classified into personality types—a theoretical framework that has been thoroughly discredited. These tests—the Myers-Briggs, the DiSC, the Color Test, and the Enneagram—all attempt to categorize people into con...

• Jung worked with Eugen Bleuler, the doctor who invented the word "schizophrenia."
• Jung developed the word association test of Francis Galton, the cousin of Charles Darwin.
• Jung had an electric personality. At university, he gave public talks. Women flocked to him before ...