The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a self-analyzing survey that is done to analyze how people judge the world and how this influences their power of making decisions. This is basically a set of question that helps determine the ability of your brain to adjust things. This test was designed by Katharine Cook Bridge and Isabel Briggs Myers. The ideology behind this test comes from the theory of Carl Jung. The theory revolves around the fact the human psychology interprets any perspective in 4 different categories, namely; thinking, feeling, intuition and sensation, and one of them is always present at a time.
Carl Gustav Jung was born in July 1875 in a religious family in Switzerland. His father was country minister and his mother was the daughter of a minister. The way Jung designed and proposed his theory is a reflection of his past experiences. It is said that there were two important experiences that actually later became the foundation of his theory of personality. Jung one foundation came from an idea that a person has a dual personality, for every thought there can two ways of assuming it. He considered himself as a dual person being a child externally and internally he used to believe that he is a mature gentleman. He always used to sit around alone and think about things that made him believe in dual thinking. He used to sit on a stone and think that one thought is that I am sitting on a stone and if I think from stone’s point of view a boy is sitting on me. This thought further got strong with different experiences that eventually made this the base of his theory. The second foundations come from the idea that Jung believed that things we explore or see in dreams are not just unconscious thoughts or vague coincidence, but they are an important mean of communication from the domain of unearthly. This idea later formed the base of an important constituent of his theory. The thing that moved Jung to formulate a theory came from an experience. As a child Jung once made a dummy and painted a stone and kept it in his attic. Late, when he grew up and he was doing a study he read in a book about “prehistoric soul”. This immediately took him to his childhood memory about the dummy. He thought he never knew about this statue in childhood still he made it. So there is a hidden reason behind this and it surely co-relates to the personality.
When I attempted the Myers-Brigg Type Indicator test I was entitled as INFP type. This abbreviation stand for I- Introvert, N-iNtuition, F-Feeling, P-Perceiving. Further details showed that I was 16% more introvert than extrovert. Furthermore, I prefer intuition over sensing which is 25%, I have more faith in feeling than thinking that is 6% and I rely on perceiving over judging 6% ("Leverage Your Personality Type", 2016).
INFP people live in an imaginary world, where they shift from reality to fantasy and this makes them introvert. They have an extremely hidden feeling often they are themselves not aware of these feelings, but they only realize about these feelings when certain situation arises. People think that INFP’s are always in their fantasy and they hardly ponder over difficulties and troubles. But this is not true because, like every other human being INFP’s also face trouble and hardships. But their issues vary from other people they usually have problems judging their own selves. Though there are good and evil sides of life and both come in life with time, but INFP’s firmly believe that the good always outlaws the evil. INFP’s mostly do things for inner perfection and they are mostly attracted to inner natural perfection rather than external worldly beauty. The INFP’s often consider themselves inferior when it comes to thinking, but they have a talent to make technical terms into easy and understandable terms. Their ideas can be of higher worth, but they fear not to provide their assistance because they think inferior themselves. INFP can do many thoughtful jobs that include social activities, addiction rehab counseling.
Alfred Adler was born in February 1870 Vienna (Friedman & Schustack, 2012). Adler was really feeble child which brought him in many close encounters with death. Such close encounters from death created a sense of fright and feebleness in his heart. This fragility laid down the foundation of Adler’s theory. Though Adler in later life became a famous Psychologist, along with his wife and their four children, but still incidents from his past led him into a vicious circle of fear, from where began the journey of Adler’s theory of inferiority complex. Adler has strongly believed that every person has specific importance and role in this world. And whenever anyone tries to infiltrate or hurt the role of that person, it creates a complex in a mind of that person and this is an inferiority complex. Adler believes that every person has certain inspiration and motivation that drives the moral up of that person. But on the contrary a person also have fear, that’s suppresses the person’s way of thinking. According to Adler there is a part of you that always struggle to attain superiority. But if there is a bad experience about that thing in a person’s life then person becomes hopeless and he starts considering himself inferior. This is the theory of inferiority complex. In such cases the affected individual adapts superiority complex. Though there is no such complex, but according to Adler that person starts to exaggerate and brag about even their smallest accomplishment. They try to stand prominent in places where they know they have no stand even. They also try to fabricate things and they in fact mold the reality according to their needs. They often try not to show the fear in them, but if you take a closer look you can see clearly that all they will be doing is hiding the fear of inferiority complex beneath them.
If a child comes up with personality issues and he is disobeying and having temper issues and along with it hitting their siblings, then the child is most probably affected with an inferiority complex. His siblings might quite be disturbing and they must be making this guy feel inferior to them with their actions. This creates a hurdle in child life and he is unable to live a normal life. This creates anger and stress issues that forced the child to become disobedient and have temper issues. If we look at the birth chart of such a child, we get a clear picture that this child is adopted. He is very demanding and that is the reason for being obedient. He is spoiled by nature and that is why he is quite short tempered. Parents who adopt child are usually so happy to finally have a child they pamper the child over the limits. Since the beginning they try to fulfill all the demands of their adopted child, regardless of what it is and what shall it cause. The only thing they care about is giving love and care so that they can take the place of that child’s real parents. In an attempt to make the child feel the loved and cared the child turns out to be more and more demanding. And when his demand is not fulfilled, he loses his temper and that is the root because why a child becomes disobedient.
According to Alder there are three main components to control the emotional changes. These three are societal task, love task and occupational task.
For Alder’s every person have a point of view that might be different from many, but its existence is necessary for a person to choose what he is best and it can help him choose his career. A person knows what he is best at and so it can be really fruitful if such person is allowed to choose a career for himself he will choose a better one.
Second most important thing is being social. It is of high importance that a person should be amiable, social and have friendships. Because these things help earn a person his normal state of mind. And socializing also solves many issues.
And the last part of treatment is through the love task. This person should be allowed to choose a person or partner whom he love so that he can share his feelings and it will make him less aggressive.
References:
Friedman, H. & Schustack, M. (2012). Personality. Boston: Pearson Allyn & Bacon.
Leverage Your Personality Type. (2016). Humanmetrics.com. Retrieved 28 June 2016, from http://www.humanmetrics.com/hr/jtypesresult.aspx?EI=-16&SN=-25&TF=-6&JP=-6
