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Enhancing Enneagram Therapy with Contemporary Research on the Conscious and Unconscious Mind

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The Enneagram is a personality framework with ancient philosophical underpinnings and cross cultural roots. It outlines nine different pathways of growth for nine different personalities. In recent years, it has started to gain traction in the peer reviewed level of research. Since the Enneagram has a conceptual versatility in addressing various levels and dimensions of the human psyche, it can both contribute and benefit from cross pollinating its insights with the latest scientific research on how the human mind works. One area of research that has the potential for this type of symbiotic partnership with the Enneagram is the study of the interaction between the conscious and unconscious mind. There is rich potential for the multi-leveled integration of contemporary findings on how the conscious and unconscious mind mutually interact with one another along with insights into personality structures from the Enneagram. These integrative insights have clinical implications and create possible directions for future research.

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Kam, C. Enhancing Enneagram Therapy with Contemporary Research on the Conscious and Unconscious Mind. Integr. psych. behav. 58, 711–730 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-022-09685-5

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