Opposites Attract: How to Use the Secrets of Personality Type to Create a Love That Lasts

by Renee Baron

Overview

“If you use the information in this book, your relationship will improve! Once you see how valuable this knowledge is, you will wonder how you ever got along without it.” —Susan Page, author of Why Talking Is Not Enough: 8 Loving Actions That Will Transform Your Marriage

Stop letting your differences drive you apart—instead let Renee Baron, acclaimed marriage and family therapist as well as co-author of The Enneagram Made Easy and Are You My Type?, show you how to reinvigorate your relationship today. In Opposites Attract, Baron unlocks the secrets of understanding personality types using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI™). Baron’s playful and practical guide to getting closer to your partner is indispensible for anyone striving to keep their relationship stress-free, fun, and loving.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062064097
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	02/08/2011
Sold by:	HARPERCOLLINS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Renee Baron has been in private practice for more than twenty-five years and has taught countless workshops and seminars on the value of understanding your personality type. She uses the Enneagram and Myers-Briggs Type Indicator™ personality assessments to give people practical yet powerful tools to develop clarity into their own and other people's behavior. Her books have been published in seventeen countries and include The Enneagram Made Easy, What Type Am I?, and Are You My Type, Am I Yours?

What People are Saying About This

Paul D. Tieger

“Beginning with the first page, I experienced Renee’s gift for explaining type preferences in a simple, elegant, understandable and very engaging way...Renee’s able to employ mutliple devices - checklists, spot-on anecdotes, and very funny cartoons - to make some complex ideas not only understandable but immediately useful in real ways.”

Douglas Stone

“Baron takes complicated ideas and makes them accessible and immediately useful for any couple.”

Richard Rohr

“After being “typed” myself in the mid 1960’s, I am still amazed at the ever new levels of truth that unfold from the “MBTI”. It is clearly drawing from a deep source—and here is another wonderful—and genuinely helpful application from that source.”

Editorial Reviews

After being “typed” myself in the mid 1960’s, I am still amazed at the ever new levels of truth that unfold from the “MBTI”. It is clearly drawing from a deep source—and here is another wonderful—and genuinely helpful application from that source.” — Richard Rohr, Center for Action and Contemplation, Albuquerque, New Mexico

“Baron takes complicated ideas and makes them accessible and immediately useful for any couple.” — Douglas Stone, co-author, Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most

“Beginning with the first page, I experienced Renee’s gift for explaining type preferences in a simple, elegant, understandable and very engaging way...Renee’s able to employ mutliple devices - checklists, spot-on anecdotes, and very funny cartoons - to make some complex ideas not only understandable but immediately useful in real ways.” — from the Afterword by Paul D. Tieger, author of Just My Type

“With simplicity and humor “Opposites Attract” explains how to determine the personality type of the one you love and provides a clear path to greater love, understanding and communication. An invaluable tool for all couples.” — Arielle Ford, author of The Soulmate Secret

“This book not only delivers on the promise of helping readers create lasting relationships, it could be described as a layman’s guide to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®...The book is concise, thorough, and upbeat. The information is illustrated with cartoons—a clue to its reader-friendly tone.” — New Age Retailer

From the Publisher

With simplicity and humor “Opposites Attract” explains how to determine the personality type of the one you love and provides a clear path to greater love, understanding and communication. An invaluable tool for all couples.

Arielle Ford

This book not only delivers on the promise of helping readers create lasting relationships, it could be described as a layman’s guide to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®...The book is concise, thorough, and upbeat. The information is illustrated with cartoons--a clue to its reader-friendly tone.

New Age Retailer

After being “typed” myself in the mid 1960’s, I am still amazed at the ever new levels of truth that unfold from the “MBTI”. It is clearly drawing from a deep source--and here is another wonderful--and genuinely helpful application from that source.

Richard Rohr

Beginning with the first page, I experienced Renee’s gift for explaining type preferences in a simple, elegant, understandable and very engaging way...Renee’s able to employ mutliple devices - checklists, spot-on anecdotes, and very funny cartoons - to make some complex ideas not only understandable but immediately useful in real ways.

from the Afterword by Paul D. Tieger

Baron takes complicated ideas and makes them accessible and immediately useful for any couple.

Douglas Stone

"Beginning with the first page, I experienced Renee’s gift for explaining type preferences in a simple, elegant, understandable and very engaging way...Renee’s able to employ mutliple devices - checklists, spot-on anecdotes, and very funny cartoons - to make some complex ideas not only understandable but immediately useful in real ways."

From the afterword - Paul D. Tieger