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Is the MBTI cognitive therapy for people with mental disorders?
Is the MBTI cognitive therapy for people with mental disorders?
I think you could make statistically significant correlations between MBTI types and mental disorders.
Good heavens, you can't even make statistically significant correlations between MBTI types and personality. So you have absolutely no chance of making statistically significant correlations between MBTI types and mental disorders.
Have we disappeared down the rabbit hole with Alice? Should we - could we consult the White Rabbit or perhaps the Queen of Hearts?
I am saying this because I think there would be a strong correlation between certain types an certain disorders.
Come on you have never read a type and thought that would be the most likely to have:
Obsessive Compulisve behavior,
Depression,
Anxiety
Sociopathic
schizo
MBTI helps to say you are but because of and it is ok, possibly relieving fear and giving purpose
So what if ISTJs tend to have schizophrenia more...great, he/she has schizophrenia. Sure you can use MBTI as cognitive therapy but personally, I don't see it doing too much, if anything at all. The way doctors and such treat psychosis is actually kind of frightening.
Wow! That is really awesome!! Yay!...
A realtime, effective use of type. A colleague of mine in Canada runs a preschool for children of autism. While any type can be autistic, she thinks about it as an exaggerated form of ISTJ--inability to relate to the external world, obsessions on physical objects, inability to put oneself into the shoes of others, and lack of openness. Note that this is total lack of ENFP, which is not how ISTJ appears in normal people.
The parents she works with love this lens--it's easier for them to relate to since they can relate through the type framework better than through "Your child is broken.."
With wonderful results, the preschool uses techniques and structures that Quenk and others found effective in reducing stress in ISTJs.
Using type theory and using assessments are two different things. Most type assessments only work on normal people and were designed that way, so you aren't going to get accurate results from any instrument.
On the other hand, Jung used type clinically. That's where it came from --different pathways for therapy got different types unstuck.
A realtime, effective use of type. A colleague of mine in Canada runs a preschool for children of autism. While any type can be autistic, she thinks about it as an exaggerated form of ISTJ--inability to relate to the external world, obsessions on physical objects, inability to put oneself into the shoes of others, and lack of openness. Note that this is total lack of ENFP, which is not how ISTJ appears in normal people.
The parents she works with love this lens--it's easier for them to relate to since they can relate through the type framework better than through "Your child is broken.."
With wonderful results, the preschool uses techniques and structures that Quenk and others found effective in reducing stress in ISTJs.
For people with unambiguous mental illness, no.
For basically normal folk: It's effective at demonstrating we're not all the same, and we don't have to be.