To C.G. Jung, William Sheldon and their coworkers
whose work has created a real tool for inner growth

Volume I stressed the practical character of type recognition and development, which provides the indispensable foundation for this volume.

Here we are going to explore:
Part I: The history and development of Jung's psychological types

Part II: Sheldon's life and work, and the controversies that surrounded them

Part III: The integration of Jung's and Sheldon's typologies

Part IV: The frontiers of typology where it meets new developments in biochemistry and genetics.

It would be soothing to think of the journey that lies ahead of us as a leisurely stroll through the world of typology. But our journey is, unfortunately, a much more rigorous one because of the difficulty of the terrain, and its vast extent. Without making any pretense at being exhaustive, we are going to examine a considerable amount of the literature that has grown up around the typologies of Jung and Sheldon in order to try to capture their fundamental principles, bring them together in an integrated typology, and glimpse what new dimensions the future might add to them. And this will not be an easy task. Each of these typologies culminates a long historical tradition, represents an important advance over what went before, and together they present us with the possibility of forging a superb instrument for the understanding of human differences. At the same time they are embroiled in controversies and obscured by misunderstandings. In view of the difficulties that face us it is worth while to attempt to avoid at the outset some of the most obvious. No matter how much we are going to talk about the variability of human beings, there is only one human race, and the differences we experience among ourselves dwindle almost to insignificance when we compare ourselves to other forms of life. But if we are one human race, we are a plastic and variable one. It has been suggested the more we go up the evolutionary ladder, the more intraspecies variability increases. And the bulk of the differences between people are not the differences that exist between one race and another, but those that exist all around us in our families and friends and local communities. (B.D.H. Latter). Finally, it would be futile to continually try to categorize this journey into the world of typology in terms of nature or nurture even when we are stressing one or the other. They always go together. We are being effected by our environment from the instant of our conception, but at the same time we are very definite someones who are being effected. Inversely, our distinctive individual nature has an infinity of developmental pathways it can follow, but it is inclined or predisposed to follow certain ones rather than others.This world of typology is so extensive that there are other whole journeys to take besides the one on which we are about to embark. We could, for example, explore the historical roots of typology which stretch back thousands of years, or devote our time principally to the factor analytic school. Instead, although we will cross some of these paths as we proceed, our main energies will be concentrated on the typologies of Jung and Sheldon, their integration and its implications, and the biochemical typology of the future.

Reviews

"Any with an interest in Jung and typological science and psychology will find this an intriguing consideration." Midwest Book Review

Reviews of the first version of Tracking the Elusive Human called A Tool for Understanding Human Differences:

"This book offers a compassionate view of differences among human beings. The authors have combined methods devised by William Sheldon (1898-1977), an American physician and psychologist, for correlating body types and personality with C.G. Jung's (1875-1961) system of classifying psychological types. Although this might sound like a discourse for post-graduate study, it is written in a light, readable style, and contains many humorous drawings." Wholistic Living News

"The authors give parallel expositions of William Sheldon's theory of body types and of Jung's theory of psychological types with the aim of illustrating how the two models complement and illuminate each other. They hope thereby to promote on the one hand individual psychic growth and, on the other, interpersonal understanding and tolerance of differences. They show a sound appreciation of Jung's typology, especially its value in enabling a person to discover his inferior function or functions, an essential step in the individuation process." Journal of Analytical Psychology

Table of Contents

PART I: C.G. JUNG'S PSYCHOLOGICAL TYPES 

I THE ORIGINS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TYPES

2 THE USE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TYPES
     Typology in Professional Jungian Circles 
     Type Diagnosis  
     Psychological Type Tests  
     The Gray-Wheelwright 
     The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator  
     The Singer-Loomis Inventory of Personality 
     Interpersonal Nature of Types  
     Using Psychological Type Tests  
     Two Conceptions of Psychological Science 

3 NEW DIRECTIONS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL TYPES THEORY   
     The Relationship Between the Functions  
     Types and Archetypes  
     Reformulations of Jung's Typology 
     The Inferior Function 

PART II: W.H. SHELDON'S SOMATOTYPES  

4 THE ORIGINS OF SHELDON'S PSYCHOLOGY
     Psychology and the Promethean Will 
     The Varieties of Human Physique  
     The Varieties of Temperament  

11 TYPE AND HEART DISEASE,  I.Q. AND GENDER 
     Type and Heart Disease  
     Type and I.Q.  
     Type and Gender  

12 TYPE AND NEUROSCIENCE
     The Pineal Gland and Melatonin  

Figures

1. Somatotype - Psychological Type Relationship  
2. Psychological Types of Male Somatotypes  
3. Psychological Types of Female Somatotypes  
4. 4,000 College Men and Psychological Types  
5. 4,000 College Women and Psychological Types  
6. Somatotype Territory and Psychological Type Territory  
7. VDY Cases  
8. VDY 30 Cases  
9. Manic-Depressive Somatotypes  
10. Paranoid Schizophrenic Somatotypes  
11. Hebephrenic Schizophrenic Somatotypes  
12. Coronary Heart Disease Somatotypes. Dupertuis and Dupertuis.  

Tables

1. Percentage of Introversion and Extraversion by MBTI and Somatotype  
2. Percentage of Type by MBTI and Somatotype  
3. Combination of Type MBTI and Somatotype  
4. Selected EST and ETS cases in VDY and VDY 30  

List of Photographs

Introverted Intuition Type  
Introverted Thinking Intuition Type  
Extraverted Intuition Type  
Extraverted Thinking Type  
The extraverted sensation thinking type, extraverted thinking sensation type
       or introverted thinking sensation type are all in this general area.  
Extraverted Sensation Type  
Introverted Sensation Type  
Midrange - small somatotype changes lead to different psychological types