MSM 500-Assignment 5.3

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MSM: 500 Assignment 5.3 Katherine Hamilton The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

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A Historical Timeline C. G. Jung’s English version of Psychological Types appears in the United States 1923 Katharine Briggs and her daughter, Isabel Myers, start type watching and reading Jung’s work 1923

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A personality type article by Katharine Briggs is published in The New Republic 1926 Myers and Briggs begin type measuring and showing people how to choose their work and u nderstand each others differences based on the results 1941-43 Introduction to Type is self-published by Isabel Myers 1962

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Isabel Myers’ MBTI Manual and the Form F research instrument are published by Educational Testing Service 1962 Isabel Myers presents her paper, “Relation of Medical Students’ Psychological Type to Their Specialties Twelve Years Later” 1964 The computer scoring program and the University of Florida’s Typology Laboratory are started by Mary McCaulley , Ph.D. 1970

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The Center for Applications of Psychological Type (CAPT) is e stablished by Myers and McCaulley as a non-profit organization 1975 Myers forms the MBTI instrument and has it published by Consulting Psychologists Press (CPP, Inc) in Palo Alto, CA 1975 The first International MBTI Conference was held in Gainesville, Florida 1975

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Katharine Myers becomes the first president of the Association for Psychological Type 1979 Gifts Differing is published by Isabel Myers and Peter Myers 1979 The Isabel Myers Memorial Library is established in honor of Isabel Myers death on May 5, 1980 1980

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The Myers & Briggs Foundation is formed to help spread the use of the Indicator around the world 1984 Based on Isabel’s work, MBTI Step II is published by CPP, Inc. 2001 CAPT researches and works to bring Isabel’s MBTI Step III to life 2003

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“Whatever the circumstances of your life, the understanding of type can make your perceptions clearer, your judgments sounder, and your life closer to your heart’s desire.” –Isabel Briggs Myers Source: www.myersbriggs.org