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Books about the Enneagram

These are books recommended for additional reading.



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The Wisdom of the Enneagram
The Complete Guide to Psychological and Spiritual Growth for the Nine Personality Types
by Don Richard Riso & Russ Hudson

Contains an easy and valuable introduction to the types, wings and levels of health. Includes a discussion of the instinctual variants and a self-typing test (the "Type Attitude Sorter"). Most significantly, contains extensive type specific suggestions for self-development, and a discussion of the difference between essence and personality.
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Personality Types
Using the Enneagram for Self-Discovery
by Don Richard Riso & Russ Hudson

Detailed descriptions of each type with additional discussion of wing influences and an elaborate presentation of what many think is Riso's most significant contribution to Enneagram studies - the levels of health. Contains comparisons to other psychological theories and typing systems. A must have for anyone with a serious interest in the Enneagram.
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Understanding the Enneagram
The Practical Guide to Personality Types
by Don Richard Riso & Russ Hudson

Contains a basic and accessible description of each of the nine enneatypes. Chiefly valuable for its extensive discussion of common type confusions. Also contains a chapter on the three centers - instinctual, emotional and intellectual, and the ways in which these become imbalanced according to the type fixation. This latter should be especially valuable for students of Gurdjieff.
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Conversations on the Enneagram
by Eleanora Gilbert

Six interviews with world experts on the Enneagram, Tom Condon, Ginger Lapid-Bogda, Sandra Maitri, Faisal Muqaddam, Claudio Naranjo, and Helen Palmer. And in-depth experiential interviews with panels of individuals of each Enneagram type. These are transcripts from interviews on Conscious TV.
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The Enneagram
Understanding Yourself and the Others In Your Life
by Helen Palmer

An introduction to the nine types by one of the earliest teachers of the Enneagram. Contains detailed descriptions which offer a different perspective from Riso and Hudson. Includes, in each chapter, an internal account of how people of each type process information and experience their fixation.
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The Enneagram in Love and Work
Understanding Your Intimate and Business Relationships
by Helen Palmer

Provides a brief synopsis of each enneatype which includes an explanation of the type's passions and dynamics. Focuses primarily on the way individuals of each type interact in personal relationships, whether they be love or work. Provides advice on how to interact in such a way so as to avoid and resolve conflict. Discusses the strengths and weaknesses of each type.
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The Complete Enneagram
27 Paths to Greater Self-Knowledge
by Beatrice Chestnut

This book is a guide towards deeper insight into your personality. It helps to better observe yourself, and become more aware of your strengths and weakenesses, your fears and the hidden parts of yourself. It provides insight into the 9 Enneagram types with each of the 3 instinctual variants.
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The Sacred Enneagram
Finding Your Unique Path to Spiritual Growth
by Christopher L. Heuertz

Find out who you really are, with the Enneagram as a sacred map to the soul.
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The Spiritual Dimension of the Enneagram
Nine Faces of the Soul
by Sandra Maitri

An introduction to the nine types which uses the teachings of A.H. Almaas as the starting point - so includes a discussion of essence, essential states and the fixation of personality.
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The Enneagram of Passions and Virtues
Finding the Way Home
by Sandra Maitri

This book is about using the Enneagram for spiritual transformation, moving from the passions of the ego to the virtues of our true self. Most of the specific things said in this book about the types are also applicable in a general sense. What's for example said about the superego in the section on 1's, and about fear and anxiety in the section about 6's are useful to know for anyone of all types. Sandra Maitri is a Diamond Heart teacher, so her books are related to those by A.H. Almaas.
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Character and Neurosis
An Integrative View
by Claudio Naranjo

A discussion of the basic principles of the Enneagram by one of it's early founders, psychoanalyst, Claudio Naranjo. Detailed type descriptions from a psychoanalytic point of view, focusing on the pathological manifestations of the various fixations.
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Facets of Unity
The Enneagram of Holy Ideas
by A.H. Almaas

A spiritual perspective on the enneagram types. Where the types come from, as a result of the loss of Basic Trust. A difficult read, but the best book if you want to know the spiritual and unconscious details. With a preface by Oscar Ichazo, who brought the enneagram system into the world.
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Enneagram exercises for personal growth
Type 1 - The Reformer
by Viltare Veckyte & Simona Pozyte

The wealth of exercises, tips and explanations offers lots of opportunities to choose from for your emotional development. It is meant for people of enneagram type 1. Most texts are brief, so that it is easy to pick what you need in the moment.
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Enneagram exercises for personal growth
Type 2 - The Helper
by Viltare Veckyte & Simona Pozyte

The wealth of exercises, tips and explanations offers lots of opportunities to choose from for your emotional development. It is meant for people of enneagram type 2. Most texts are brief, so that it is easy to pick what you need in the moment.
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Enneagram exercises for personal growth
Type 3 - The Achiever
by Viltare Veckyte & Simona Pozyte

The wealth of exercises, tips and explanations offers lots of opportunities to choose from for your emotional development. It is meant for people of enneagram type 3. Most texts are brief, so that it is easy to pick what you need in the moment.
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Enneagram exercises for personal growth
Type 4 - The Individualist
by Viltare Veckyte & Simona Pozyte

The wealth of exercises, tips and explanations offers lots of opportunities to choose from for your emotional development. It is meant for people of enneagram type 4. Most texts are brief, so that it is easy to pick what you need in the moment.
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Enneagram exercises for personal growth
Type 5 - The Investigator
by Viltare Veckyte & Simona Pozyte

The wealth of exercises, tips and explanations offers lots of opportunities to choose from for your emotional development. It is meant for people of enneagram type 5. Most texts are brief, so that it is easy to pick what you need in the moment.
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Enneagram exercises for personal growth
Type 6 - The Loyalist
by Viltare Veckyte & Simona Pozyte

The wealth of exercises, tips and explanations offers lots of opportunities to choose from for your emotional development. It is meant for people of enneagram type 6. Most texts are brief, so that it is easy to pick what you need in the moment.
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Enneagram exercises for personal growth
Type 7 - The Enthusiast
by Viltare Veckyte & Simona Pozyte

The wealth of exercises, tips and explanations offers lots of opportunities to choose from for your emotional development. It is meant for people of enneagram type 7. Most texts are brief, so that it is easy to pick what you need in the moment.
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Enneagram exercises for personal growth
Type 8 - The Challenger
by Viltare Veckyte & Simona Pozyte

The wealth of exercises, tips and explanations offers lots of opportunities to choose from for your emotional development. It is meant for people of enneagram type 8. Most texts are brief, so that it is easy to pick what you need in the moment.
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Enneagram exercises for personal growth
Type 9 - The Peacemaker
by Viltare Veckyte & Simona Pozyte

The wealth of exercises, tips and explanations offers lots of opportunities to choose from for your emotional development. It is meant for people of enneagram type 9. Most texts are brief, so that it is easy to pick what you need in the moment.

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