Wired for Conflict: The Role of Personality in Resolving Differences
Sondra S. Vansant

MBTI meets conflict management -- an excellent book about how each personality type handles conflict -- positively and negatively. There's a bit too much space given over to explaining the general orientation of each MBTI personality type -- there are better books for that information -- but this one's well worth it for the conflict-related information. You'll understand yourself and manage yourself better in conflict situations. You'll also understand that conflict is a natural product of diversity -- and that our diversity is not only our source of conflict, but of creativity and balance in relationships and teamwork.

Four Spiritualities : Expressions of Self, Expressions of Spirit : A Psychology
of Contemporary Spiritual Choice /
Peter Tufts Richardson, Peter T. Richardson / Paperback or Hardcover / Published 1996

Beside Ourselves: Our Hidden Personality in Everyday Life
By Naomi Quenk
Paperback
(1994)
Focus is on the "shadow side" or the "inferior function." Our weaknesses are the shadow side of our strengths. Quenk has ideas for working on our "hidden personality" that tends to surface under stress and crisis.

Survival Games Personalities Play
By Eve Delunas
Paperback
(1992)
Delunas combines Jungian theory, Myers-Briggs type preference theory and ideas from Transactional Analysis (Games People Play).

Leadership Equation:
Leadership, Management, and the Myers-Briggs
Lee Barr, Norma Barr
Paperback / Published 1989

Developing Leaders:
Research and Applications in Psychological Type and Leadership Development:
Integrating Reality and Vision, Mind and Heart
Catherine Fitzgerald (Editor), Linda K. Kirby (Editor)
Hardcover / Published 1997

Creative Aging: Discovering the Unexpected Joys of Later Life Through Personality Type / Nancy Bost Millner, Katharine D. Myers / Paperback / Published 1998

Navigating Midlife : Using Typology As a Guide / Eleanor S. Corlett, Nancy B. Millner / Paperback / Published 1993

Nurture by Nature: Understanding Your Child's Personality Type - And Become a Better Parent / Barbara Barron-Tieger, Paul D. Tieger / Paperback / Published 1997

I'm not completely comfortable with the idea that the personality type is imbedded from birth -- even if that is literally true, the child develops through life and personality type may be less apparent in early years -- but this is, nevertheless, a useful book for understanding that our children are often very different than we are, and that it's our responsibility as parents to learn to work with, not against, those differences. Every child is unique, and children should be respected not for how well they measure up to our expectations, but for themselves.

Dynamics of Personality Type: Understanding and Applying Jung's Cognitive Processes
By Linda V. Berens
Paperback
2000

So you understand each of the letters in your MBTI now ... you know what an E preference means and what an I preference means. It's time to go beyond the basics: learn how the different dimensions work together: the difference between an ENFP preference and an INFP preference is more than the difference between the E and the I dimension. How the different processes work together is called "type dynamics" and this is an excellent introduction to the subject.

The 16 Personality Types: Descriptions for Self-Discovery
By Linda V. Berens and Dario Nardi
Paperback (1999)

A good in-depth description of each personality type.

Introduction to Type: A Guide to Understanding Your Results on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
By Isabel Briggs-Myers
Paperback
1998 6th edition

An essential introduction to type theory from one of the initiators.

Gifts Differing
By Isabel Briggs Myers and Peter B. Myers
Paperback (1995: reprint)

The ideas behind the Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator are laid out by one of the originators of the instrument, Isabel Briggs Myers. This book makes clear the values behind the MBTI: the uniqueness of every person, the importance and positive value of differences, and the normality of the distribution of those differences.

Essentials of Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Assessment
By Naomi L. Quenk
Paperback
1999

Essentials of the MBTI for those who want an in-depth introduction, or as a study guide for those wanting certification to use the instrument.

Personality Type and Religious Leadership
By Roy M. Oswald and Otto Kroeger
Paperback
(1988)

In this Alban Institute publication, the ideas of personality type are applied to religious leadership (ministry, etc.). To believe that any religious leader can be all things to all people is a recipe for disaster: each of us has preferences and strengths. Many different personality types make excellent religious leaders, but each will have its unique strengths and difficulties. The book's now a few years old, but it's still quite relevant to understanding congregational dynamics.