The Perfectionist-Mediator (1-9) Couple
Jennifer P. Schneider M.D. and Ron Corn A chapter from Understand Yourself, Understand Your Partner: The Essential Enneagram Guide to a Better Relationship. In...
Enneagram Styles & Cyclical Psychodynamics
Jerry Wagner It’s always nice to discover that some of your ideas are not totally out in left field, not that there’s anything wrong...
How can the Enneagram Community Remain True to its Roots and Embrace Science? Part 1
Perspectives of a Clinical Research Scientist I suspect most readers of Enneagram Monthly share a belief that the Enneagram has a lot to offer...
Become A Money Master: The Enneagram in Action (Part 1)
Doug Lynam The energy of money is miraculous. With enough wealth, we can have and do almost anything we desire. A click of a...
Ones — Modifying Your Critical Voice
Tom Condon Critical voices are associated with what Freud called the Superego, known to the rest of us as conscience. Sometimes in cartoons conscience...
Windows on a Changing World
Almost everyone would agree that the world in 2022 is in a state of rapid change. At every level of organization, power structures are...
Reflecting On the First Month of the New Website
Dear friend and Enneagram Monthly subscriber, Warm thanks to you for supporting Enneagram Monthly and our new website launched on February 13. Since plugging...
Nine Story
(Republished for Enneagram Monthly online) If you are anything like me, learning about the Enneagram encourages a little voice inside which repeats “if only...
Psychological and Spiritual Perspectives
The Enneagram distinguishes between our essence and our personality. Other traditions speak of our real self vs our false self. In this article I will present some psychological perspectives on...
Thoughts on Typing: EM Group Facebook
Bernadette & Frederic Schmitt, Kirby Olson, Jack Labanauskas Is this woman necessarily a type 4 because she has a sad and tormented face? Can...
The Romantic-Leader (Four-Eight) Couple
Jennifer P. Schneider M.D. and Ron Corn A chapter from Understand Yourself, Understand Your Partner: The Essential Enneagram Guide to a Better Relationship. We...
The Awakened heart
David Banner “We love purely when we release other people to be who they are. The ego seeks intimacy through control and guilt. The...
Sexual Nine: Union
Antonio Barbato The strength of Sloth and the fixation of Self-forgetfulness cause the people with this predominant instinct to use the original drive of...
Sexual Eight: Desire for Possession
Antonio Barbato Like the analogous One subtype, in an Eight there is a reversal of the dynamics that we will find acting in a...
hiding in plain sight – A Hidden Dynamic of the Enneagram
Jim Jennings Some years ago Don Riso and Russ Hudson gifted us with their classic The Wisdom of the Enneagram. The word Wisdom has...
Sexual Seven: Enthusiasm
Antonio Barbato Among all the subtypes of the ET, this is probably by far the most sensitive to the passing of time and the...