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Additional Concepts

  • A New Theory on the Origins of Type & the Nature of Type Motivation

    An article by Susan Rhodes reprinted from The Enneagram Monthly.

  • Enneagram Levels of Development

    The Levels of Development explained in detail at the Enneagram Institute.

  • The Mysterious Center Points of 3, 6, and 9

    The Circle, Triangle & the Hexad
    Part II: The Mysterious Center Points of 3, 6, and 9
    by Susan Rhodes

  • Enneagram Tritype

    Your Tritype consists of one Enneagram Type in each center of intelligence: Head (567), Heart (234) and Gut (891). Although one Enneagram Type is dominant, you also use two other types in a consistent order.

  • Karen Horney and the Enneatypes

    In 1945, long before the Enneagram personality types were taught, Karen Horney's book Our Inner Conflicts was published. In that book are introduced the aggressive, compliant and detached types. In the Enneagram personality system, these types have been used to create the three so-called Horneyvian triads: aggressive, compliant and withdrawn. Although these Horneyvian triads are a widely accepted feature of the Enneagram system, the type descriptions in Our Inner Conflicts seem to match only three of the nine enneatypes.

  • Karen Horney's Three Trends (Moving Towards, Against, Away From) and the Enneagram Styles

    How Karen Horney's concepts of Moving Towards, Against, and Away From have been incorporated into the Enneagram types.

  • Complemental Types

    I've noticed early on that the types opposite each other are similar in some way (e.g., some 9's can seem 5-like, some 6's can seem 1-like). Instead of truly exploring these connections, people studying the Enneagram often explain it away as having to do with the aggressive, compliant or withdrawn triads. I see problems with that type of approach though.

  • Gender Polarity & the Enneagram

    The Circle, Triangle & the Hexad
    Part I: Gender Polarity & the Enneagram
    by Susan Rhodes